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Prune the memory

A recurring maintenance task for AI4Kanban's project-wide and per-module memory. Each run rewrites the four memory files into concise topic summaries that retain only what still helps plan future work.

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/kanban Pull https://ai4kanban.dev/recipes/prune-the-memory.md
and create a recurring task from it. Keep its `## Process`
unchanged and run every step.

Paste that and Claude pulls the card by URL, files it under docs/kanban/todo/recurring/. Run it by hand or give it a cadence. Prefer to work offline? Grab the file or copy it in full below.

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01 · What it does

What one run does

This card is a recurring task — it never gets checked off and filed away. Run it by hand or give it a cadence, and each pass follows the process below.

Prune project and module memory

Rewrites the project-wide memory and each module's four memory files as concise topic summaries, keeping only shipped facts, live decisions, rejected ideas, and design lessons that still help plan future work.

02 · The card

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The whole recipe is one Markdown file. Copy it, drop it into your board, and reshape it to your project — its priority, process, and cadence are yours to change.

# Prune the memory

**Recurring** · **Priority:** med · **ROI:** med

Reduce the memory files to the information needed to plan the next task. Delete this
card to stop the recurring task; it will not be recreated automatically.

## Process

1. Prune the project-wide memory at `docs/kanban/memory/` and each module's memory at
   `docs/kanban/memory/<module>/`, following `akb guide prune-memory`.
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