# kingkongshot/Pensieve

tore your decisions and principles. Claude reads them to make better choices.

Repository: https://github.com/kingkongshot/Pensieve
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pensieve
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-08T05:14:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 55/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 81, release rhythm 35, longevity 30
- inputs: {"age_days": 432, "days_push": 117, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2515, forks 249 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:57.671806+00:00)

## What it is
Pensieve is a self-growing project memory system for AI coding agents, implemented as a skill that replaces a static CLAUDE.md with a four-layer structured knowledge base of conventions, decisions, facts, and workflows. It auto-accumulates lessons during development and routes knowledge on demand to minimize context usage.

## Use cases
- give my AI agent persistent project memory
- replace CLAUDE.md with auto-updating project knowledge
- store architecture decisions so Claude remembers why
- validate AI-generated plans against project conventions
- stop re-explaining project specs to my coding assistant
- build a knowledge graph from daily development sessions

## When to choose
- you use Claude Code or any AI tool supporting skills and want accumulated project context
- you repeatedly re-explain conventions, decisions, or module boundaries to your agent
- you want lessons from code review automatically captured and reused

## When to avoid
- you prefer a simple, manually curated CLAUDE.md or agents.md
- your project is small enough that static docs suffice
- your AI tooling does not support the skills mechanism

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, documentation, agent-framework, prompt-engineering, mcp
- domain: developer-tools, artificial-intelligence, documentation
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: claude-skills, knowledge-graph, project-memory, claudemd, ai-coding-assistant, ai-agents

## Member repositories
- kingkongshot/Pensieve (main) score 55

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:57.671806+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:26:10.394023+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kingkongshot/Pensieve (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:57.671806+00:00, sha 25c22cc35702)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.