# Model-Drift Maintenance Checklist

## What it does
A quarterly pass to check whether your AI setup still matches how the tools actually work now - and whether it still matches you.

## Why it works
Your setup was current the day you built it. Then a model updated, a memory format changed, an instruction quietly stopped mattering, and nobody told you. Drift doesn't announce itself; you just start getting slightly worse answers and assume it's you. A scheduled pass catches what no single conversation reveals.

## The checklist

Put a recurring calendar block on the first weekend of each quarter. Thirty minutes.

```
THE TOOLS (what changed under you)
[ ] Open your main tool's release notes or announcements for the last quarter.
    Note anything touching memory, instructions, projects, or connectors.
[ ] Check your standing instructions still exist and are still loaded.
    (Settings pages move; migrations silently drop things.)
[ ] Check your memory entries: read them all. Delete the stale, fix the wrong.
[ ] Check every connector and integration: what can it see, and should it still?

YOUR CONTEXT (what changed in you)
[ ] Reread your Bearing File. Does "what this season is about" still describe
    this season? Rewrite what doesn't.
[ ] One correction you made repeatedly this quarter - is it written into your
    standing instructions yet, or are you still repeating it?

THE HONEST TEST
[ ] Ask your AI for advice on something real. Does the answer sound like it
    knows you - or like it's answering the average person again? If the
    latter, something above is broken. Find it before you close this list.
```

## How to verify it worked
The test is the last item: the average-person answer is the drift alarm. If the answers stay specific to you all quarter, the pass did its job.

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From the WILD×AI Library · wildx.ai/library · Free to use, share, and adapt with attribution. We run this check monthly for members - that's what the Drift Briefing is.