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Make Claude
Audit Itself
About You

Claude has been quietly building a picture of who you are for months, and some of it is out of date. Here’s the audit prompt that fixes it in 10 minutes.

Claude’s memory is on by default on the Free, Pro, Max and Ultra plans. It remembers your work, your tools and your goals, and it adds topics to memory as you chat. (Claude’s memory update)

The catch is that a one-off question you asked at midnight can end up in that picture next to the real facts about you. A few months in, Claude is working from a profile that’s half right and half stale. This is the audit I run on my own Claude every couple of months.

Why It Matters

When an answer feels almost right but not quite, the cause is usually a weak prompt or stale memory. You can see a prompt and rewrite it. Stale memory is invisible. You don’t see which old assumption about your role or priorities Claude pulled in.

The audit makes it visible. You read what Claude thinks it knows, line by line, and decide what stays.

The Prompt

Paste this into a new chat in Claude. It runs in three rounds and takes about 10 minutes if you answer properly.

The Memory Audit
You're about to run a memory audit on yourself, with me. The goal is to clean up everything you've stored about who I am, what I do and what I care about, so your answers fit the current me, not an outdated or partial version. Run it in three rounds. ROUND 1, SHOW ME WHAT YOU REMEMBER Write out everything you believe about me from your memory and our past chats. One line per item, under these headings: - ROLE AND WORK (title, company, what I actually do day to day) - TOOLS AND STACK (the tools I use, with plans where relevant) - PRIORITIES AND GOALS (what I'm working toward in the next 90 days) - WORKFLOWS AND HABITS (how and when I work, and with whom) - PERSONAL CONTEXT (location, communication style, anything that changes how you talk to me) - STANDING INSTRUCTIONS (anything I've told you to always or never do) Mark each item HIGH (I said it directly), MEDIUM (you pieced it together from several chats) or LOW (from a one-off chat, or it might be stale). Don't fill gaps with guesses. If a heading is empty, say so. ROUND 2, INTERVIEW ME Go through every LOW and MEDIUM item one at a time. Ask short questions, multiple choice where you can, and wait for my answer before the next one. For example: - "I have you down as [thing]. Still accurate? (Yes / No / Partly)" - "I have you using [tool] for [purpose]. Still true, or did you switch?" - "I have [goal] as a top priority. Still top 3, or has something replaced it?" After each answer, tell me in one line what changed. ROUND 3, UPDATE AND REPORT Update your memory with the corrected picture and forget anything I said is wrong. Then give me a one-page report: - UPDATED PROFILE: the clean, current version of what you know about me - WHAT CHANGED: the items that were stale or wrong - STILL MISSING: 3 things that would help you help me, if I want to share them - THREE MOVES: the 3 workflow improvements you'd suggest for the next 30 days, based on the new profile Tell me which changes you saved to memory and which I should fix by hand in Settings.

Run It Quarterly

I run this once a quarter, and Claude’s answers get noticeably sharper the week after. Put it on your calendar for the first Saturday of every quarter. 10 minutes, done.

Check It By Hand Too
  1. Go to Settings, then Your Claude, and click Manage next to Your memory. Everything Claude remembers is listed under Topics.
  2. Open any topic to read it. Use the edit icon to fix it or Delete to remove it.
  3. Projects keep their own memory. If one Project should stay separate, open it and turn off Use account memory under Memory.

On an older layout, look under Settings, then Memory. Sensitive topics like health aren’t saved unless you turn them on. (Claude’s memory help page)

Make It A Skill

Skip the pasting. I turned the audit into a Claude Skill, so you can just say "run my memory audit" and it starts.

↓ Download the skill (.zip)
  1. Turn on file creation. Go to Settings, then Capabilities, and turn on Code execution and file creation (called Create and edit files on newer layouts).
  2. Upload it. Open Customize (renamed Plugins on newer accounts) and go to Skills. Click +, then Create skill, then Upload a skill, and pick the ZIP. Don’t unzip it first.
  3. Use it. Make sure it’s switched on, then type "run my memory audit." Skills work on every plan, including Free. (How skills work)
Save The Report

Each time, save the final report as claude-memory-YYYY-QQ.md in a Project or your Drive. When an answer feels off two months from now, check the last report to see whether it’s new drift or something you already fixed.

After three or four audits you’ll spot patterns in yourself too, like the workflows that stick, the priorities that keep coming back and the tools you drop.

The Wider Rule

Any AI that remembers you needs this audit, ChatGPT included. The prompt works there too. The goal is simple: no AI should be using a six-month-old version of you to help with today’s decisions.