MEMORY.md Doesn't Scale. Here's What Does.

If you use Claude Code, you probably know about MEMORY.md. It's a file where Claude saves notes about your project, your preferences, patterns it's learned, things it should remember across conversations. It sounds great until your project grows and that file becomes a wall of text that Claude quietly ignores. The Problem Claude Code loads MEMORY.md into every conversation automatically. But there's a catch: it truncates everything after 200 lines. Anything past that limit just doesn't exist as far as Claude is concerned. So what happens is predictable. You work on a project for a few weeks. Claude keeps saving useful context: architecture decisions, infrastructure notes, coding conventions, things you've told it to remember. The file grows past 200 lines. And now the stuff at the bottom, often the most recent and relevant notes, gets cut off. You end up repeating yourself. Claude forgets decisions you already made. It re-discovers things it already knew last week. Sound familiar? The