Status

---
name: status
description: "Memory health dashboard showing line counts, topic files, capacity, stale entries, and recommendations."
command: /self-improving-agent:status
---

# /self-improving-agent:status — Memory Health Dashboard

Quick overview of your project's memory state across all memory systems.

## Usage

```
/self-improving-agent:status                    # Full dashboard
/self-improving-agent:status --brief            # One-line summary
```

## What It Reports

### Step 1: Locate all memory files

```bash
# Auto-memory directory. Claude Code replaces EVERY non-alphanumeric character in the
# resolved absolute cwd with a single "-" (dots, spaces and CJK included).
MEMORY_DIR="$HOME/.claude/projects/$(pwd -P | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/-/g')/memory"

# The counts below are 0 when the path is wrong, which reads exactly like "healthy".
# Verify the directory first; under LC_ALL=C sed goes per byte, so glob as a fallback:
#   [ -d "$MEMORY_DIR" ] || ls -d ~/.claude/projects/*"$(basename "$PWD" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/-/g')"*

# Count lines in MEMORY.md
wc -l "$MEMORY_DIR/MEMORY.md" 2>/dev/null || echo "0"

# List topic files
ls "$MEMORY_DIR/"*.md 2>/dev/null | grep -v MEMORY.md

# CLAUDE.md
wc -l ./CLAUDE.md 2>/dev/null || echo "0"
wc -l ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md 2>/dev/null || echo "0"

# Rules directory
ls .claude/rules/*.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l
```

### Step 2: Analyze capacity

| Metric | Healthy | Warning | Critical |
|--------|---------|---------|----------|
| MEMORY.md lines | < 120 | 120-180 | > 180 |
| CLAUDE.md lines | < 150 | 150-200 | > 200 |
| Topic files | 0-3 | 4-6 | > 6 |
| Stale entries | 0 | 1-3 | > 3 |

### Step 3: Quick stale check

For each MEMORY.md entry that references a file path:
```bash
# Verify referenced files still exist. There are TWO kinds of reference and they resolve
# against different roots — lumping them together is how this check breaks:
#
#  1. Topic-file links, always written as markdown links with a BARE filename:
#     [Some title](user_role.md). They live NEXT TO MEMORY.md, so resolve against
#     $MEMORY_DIR. These are the majority (a real MEMORY.md here: 47 bare vs 1 with a slash).
#  2. Project paths, which always contain "/". Resolve against the project root (cwd).
#
# Bare filenames that are NOT link targets (CLAUDE.md, ci.yml, plugin.json mentioned in
# prose) are neither kind — the link-target pattern skips them on its own. Do not "simplify"
# this into one pass: resolving everything against cwd reports ~46 false STALE on a healthy
# memory dir, and skipping every bare name makes the topic-file check dead code.

# 1. topic files — markdown link targets with no "/", resolved next to MEMORY.md
grep -oE '\]\([^)/]+\.(ts|js|py|md|json|yaml|yml)\)' "$MEMORY_DIR/MEMORY.md" \
  | sed 's/^](//; s/)$//' | sort -u | while IFS= read -r f; do
  [ -f "$MEMORY_DIR/$f" ] || echo "STALE (topic): $f"
done

# 2. project paths — anything containing "/", including absolute paths, resolved from cwd
grep -oE '/?([a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+/)+[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\.(ts|js|py|md|json|yaml|yml)' "$MEMORY_DIR/MEMORY.md" \
  | sort -u | while IFS= read -r f; do
  [ -f "$f" ] || echo "STALE (path): $f"
done
```

### Step 4: Output

```
📊 Memory Status

  Auto-Memory (MEMORY.md):
    Lines:        {{n}}/200 ({{bar}}) {{emoji}}
    Topic files:  {{count}} ({{names}})
    Last updated: {{date}}

  Project Rules:
    CLAUDE.md:    {{n}} lines
    Rules:        {{count}} files in .claude/rules/
    User global:  {{n}} lines (~/.claude/CLAUDE.md)

  Health:
    Capacity:     {{healthy/warning/critical}}
    Stale refs:   {{count}} (files no longer exist)
    Duplicates:   {{count}} (entries repeated across files)

  {{if recommendations}}
  💡 Recommendations:
    - {{recommendation}}
  {{endif}}
```

### Brief mode

```
/self-improving-agent:status --brief
```

Output: `📊 Memory: {{n}}/200 lines | {{count}} rules | {{status_emoji}} {{status_word}}`

## Interpretation

- **Green (< 60%)**: Plenty of room. Auto-memory is working well.
- **Yellow (60-90%)**: Getting full. Consider running `/self-improving-agent:review` to promote or clean up.
- **Red (> 90%)**: Near capacity. Auto-memory may start dropping older entries. Run `/self-improving-agent:review` now.

## Tips

- Run `/self-improving-agent:status --brief` as a quick check anytime
- If capacity is yellow+, run `/self-improving-agent:review` to identify promotion candidates
- Stale entries waste space — delete references to files that no longer exist
- Topic files are fine — Claude creates them to keep MEMORY.md under 200 lines