context-bankruptcy
Declare bankruptcy on a long-lived AI agent's accumulated memory — audit what it currently believes, separate ground truth from stale and wrong, purge deliberately, restate the truths that survive, and log what was lost. Use when an agent keeps acting on outdated facts, contradicts itself across sessions, 'remembers' things wrong, or after a reorg/pivot makes its worldview obsolete. Produces a belief audit, a keep/correct/purge ledger, a restated ground-truth file, and the bankruptcy record.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill context-bankruptcy --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Context Bankruptcy Skill Every long-lived agent slowly fills with sediment: the org chart from two reorgs ago, the project that got cancelled but still shapes its suggestions, the preference you expressed once, sarcastically, in March. Deleting everything loses the genuinely valuable judgment it accumulated; deleting nothing means arguing with a colleague who lives in the past. Bankruptcy is the middle path with discipline: audit the beliefs, keep what's true, correct what drifted, purge what's wrong or expired — and write down what was lost, because silent memory loss is how the same wrong belief gets re-learned from the same stale sources next month. ## What This Skill Produces - A **belief audit**: what the agent currently holds, organized into facts / preferences / procedures / relationships, each dated and sourced where possible - A **keep / correct / purge ledger** with a reason per entry — the artifact that makes the bankruptcy deliberate instead of a rage-wipe - A **restated ground-truth file**: the clean, current worldview to reload, written to survive the next drift longer (dated claims, expiry hints) - A **bankruptcy record**: what was purged and why, plus the re-learn
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What does the context-bankruptcy skill do?
Declare bankruptcy on a long-lived AI agent's accumulated memory — audit what it currently believes, separate ground truth from stale and wrong, purge deliberately, restate the truths that survive, and log what was lost. Use when an agent keeps acting on outdated facts, contradicts itself across sessions, 'remembers' things wrong, or after a reorg/pivot makes its worldview obsolete. Produces a belief audit, a keep/correct/purge ledger, a restated ground-truth file, and the bankruptcy record.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill context-bankruptcy --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.