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claude-foundations/memory/script-context-load.md
Paul O'Reilly c3a151a87b Backfill memory files for all existing scripts and skills
Creates MEMORY.md index and 10 memory files documenting:
- Scripts: context-load, start-claude, install-hooks, setup-formatters, git-status-report
- Skills: /log, /reflect-logs, /reflect, /distill-best-practices, /linter

Each file covers purpose, usage, how it works, and gotchas.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-13 12:10:47 +13:00

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script: context-load

Location: scripts/context-load Symlinked to: ~/sbin/context-load

Purpose

Gathers project context for a Claude Code session by walking from cwd upward, collecting key index files, and outputting structured text suitable for --append-system-prompt.

What it loads (in order)

  1. Every CLAUDE.md found walking up from cwd (top-down order) + directory tree (depth 3) from each
  2. Every CONTEXT.md found walking up (top-down)
  3. Every MEMORY.md found walking up (top-down)
  4. Every BESTPRACTICES.md found walking up (top-down)
  5. All *.md files in cwd (deduped against already-emitted files)
  6. git-status-report output from the highest-level CLAUDE.md directory

How it works

  • Uses discover_upward() to walk from $PWD to /, collecting directories
  • Resolves symlinks via readlink -f to deduplicate (e.g., ~/dev/claude/CLAUDE.md symlink to claude-foundations/CLAUDE.md)
  • Emits each file with a structured header (=== FILE: ... ===) for easy parsing
  • Tree output uses tree with fallback to find
  • ANSI codes are stripped from git-status-report output

Gotchas

  • Only walks upward from cwd — does not descend into subdirectories. Launch from within a project directory to get that project's context.
  • Index files (MEMORY.md, CONTEXT.md, BESTPRACTICES.md) should be thin indexes, not large documents, since they're injected into the system prompt.