# Consolidate

> Audit and prune rules/skills/learnings to prevent context bloat. Triggers "consolidate", "clean up rules", "spa day", "what's redundant", degraded agent perf.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-darkroomengineering-cc-settings-consolidate`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [darkroomengineering](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/darkroomengineering)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [darkroomengineering](https://github.com/darkroomengineering)
- **Source:** https://github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings/tree/main/skills/consolidate

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-darkroomengineering-cc-settings-consolidate
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Consolidate Rules, Skills, and Learnings

## Phase 1: Audit

### Count everything
```bash
echo "Rules:" && ls ~/.claude/rules/*.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l
echo "Skills:" && ls -d ~/.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l
echo "Auto-memory entries:" && find ~/.claude/projects/*/memory -name "*.md" -not -name "MEMORY.md" 2>/dev/null | wc -l
echo "CLAUDE.md lines:" && wc -l ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md 2>/dev/null
echo "AGENTS.md lines:" && wc -l ~/.claude/AGENTS.md 2>/dev/null
```

### Check for contradictions
Read all rules and flag:
- Opposites ("always X" in one, "never X" in another)
- Significant overlap (two rules covering the same concern)
- References to outdated tools, patterns, or dependencies
- Vague rules that aren't actionable

### Check skill triggers
Read all skill descriptions and flag:
- Overlapping trigger phrases between skills
- Skills that never get invoked (ask the user)
- Outdated instructions

## Phase 2: Merge and Deduplicate

### Rules
- Merge rules covering the same concern
- Remove rules that duplicate AGENTS.md guardrails
- Remove rules for problems that no longer occur
- Tighten vague rules into specific instructions

### Skills
- Merge skills with overlapping triggers
- Remove unused skills
- Update outdated instructions
- Ensure distinct, non-overlapping trigger phrases

### Auto-memory
- Review entries under `~/.claude/projects//memory/`
- Remove entries about long-fixed bugs
- Remove entries about deprecated patterns
- Consolidate similar entries into one

## Phase 3: Simplify CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md should be a routing table:
- Points to AGENTS.md for standards
- Points to rules for specific concerns
- Points to skills for specific workflows
- Minimal inline content

If it exceeds ~100 lines of content, extract inline sections into rules or skills.

## Phase 4: Verify

1. Start a fresh Claude Code session
2. Test that key skills still trigger
3. Verify no regressions in agent behavior
4. Ask the user about rules you're unsure about

## Output Format

```markdown
## Consolidation Report

### Changes Made
- Merged: [list]
- Removed: [list]
- Updated: [list]

### Current State
- Rules: N (was M)
- Skills: N (was M)
- Learnings: N (was M)
- CLAUDE.md: N lines (was M)

### Flagged for User Review
- [Item]: [Why it needs human judgment]

### Recommendations
- [Further cleanup suggestions]
```

## Remember

- Ask before deleting — the user may have reasons you don't see
- Fix contradictions first — they cause the most confusion
- Overlapping triggers cause skill mis-invocation
- 10 sharp rules beat 30 vague ones

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [darkroomengineering](https://github.com/darkroomengineering)
- **Source:** [darkroomengineering/cc-settings](https://github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-darkroomengineering-cc-settings-consolidate
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/darkroomengineering
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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