Claude Code’s auto memory lets Claude save notes to itself between sessions — build preferences, debugging patterns, code style habits. It decides on its own what’s worth keeping.

My workflow adds a manual layer on top of that. When Claude writes code in a way I don’t want — wrong pattern, wrong style — I correct it. At that point, the remember skill fires and asks whether to save it to auto memory. If it’s something I want consistently applied going forward, I save it.

Over time, corrections accumulate. Claude gradually stops making the same mistakes because that context is already there at the start of each session.

The key bit: the remember skill doesn’t trigger automatically at the right moment on its own. As I covered in a previous post, you need an auto-trigger rule in CLAUDE.md. Without that, the skill just won’t fire when you make a correction.