I feel that way too. I have a lot of these things.
But the reality is, it doesn't really happen that often in my actual experience. Everyone is very slow as a whole to understand what these things mean, so far you get quite a bit of time just with an improved, customized system of your own.
https://backnotprop.com/blog/50-first-dates-with-mr-meeseeks...
So... it's tough. I think memory abstractions are generally a mistake, and generally not needed, however I also think that compacting has gotten so wrong recently that they are also required until Claude Code releases a version with improved compacting.
But I don't do memory abstraction like this at all. I use skills to manage plans, and the plans are the memory abstraction.
But that is more than memory. That is also about having a detailed set of things that must occur.
I think planning is a critical part of the process. I just built https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator for a simple UX enhancement
Before planning mode I used to write plans to a folder with descriptive file names. A simple ls was a nice memory refresher for the agent.
I am working alone. So I am instead having plans automatically update. Same conception, but without a human in the mix.
But I am utilizing skills heavily here. I also have a python script which manages how the LLM calls the plans so it's all deterministic. It happens the same way every time.
That's my big push right now. Every single thing I do, I try to make as much of it as deterministic as possible.
I'm just also working on real projects as well, so a lot of my priority is focused on new skills building, and not worrying about managing the current ones I have as github repos.