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basicmachines-co/basic-memory agent skills
- skills
- 49
- GitHub stars
- 4.1k
GitHub description: “AI conversations that actually remember. Never re-explain your project to your AI again. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tyvKNccgqN”
- Stars
- 4,107 (301 forks)
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Dec 2024
- Homepage
- basicmemory.com
- ai
- claude
- llm
- mcp
- open-source
- python
- obsidian
- obsidian-md
- knowledge-management
- knowlege-graph
- local-first
- markdown
- privacy-first
- privacy-first-ai
- productivity
Install all skills
npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memoryAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in basicmachines-co/basic-memory, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Views, sets, unsets and validates cmux settings in ~/.config/cmux/cmux.json with a helper script that checks keys against the schema. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 2 | End-user control of cmux topology and routing (windows, workspaces, panes/surfaces, focus, moves, reorder, identify, trigger flash). Use when… | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 2 repos | ~842 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 3 | Opens markdown files in a formatted cmux panel beside the terminal that re-renders on every change, handy for plans and task lists. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 2 repos | ~527 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 4 | Keeps agent actions scoped to the cmux workspace and terminal that invoked it, and lays out pane and surface commands that avoid disrupting the user's own focus. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 2 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 5 | Produces PR, changelog and two-week retro images for the Basic Memory repository from evidence in PR bodies, saved to fixed paths under docs/assets/infographics. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 6 | Adds Pydantic Logfire tracing, logging and metrics to Python, JavaScript or TypeScript and Rust projects, with the correct setup order and library extras. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 7 | Guides a newcomer to Basic Memory through designing a personal knowledge system, then teaches its use and sets up their assistant to load it each session. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 8 | Defragment and reorganize agent memory files: split bloated files, merge duplicates, remove stale information, and restructure the memory hierarchy. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~896 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 9 | Drafts and applies a structured GitHub pull request description covering why, what changed, implementation, testing and remaining risks. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~482 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 10 | Manage entity status transitions in Basic Memory: archive completed work, move notes between status folders, update frontmatter, and handle edge cases. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 11 | Structured metadata search for Basic Memory: query notes by custom frontmatter fields using equality, range, array, and nested filters. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 12 | 12.Memory Notes How to write well-structured Basic Memory notes: frontmatter, observations with semantic categories, relations with wiki-links, and best practices for building a rich knowledge graph. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 13 | Sleep-time memory reflection: review recent conversations and daily notes, extract insights, and consolidate into long-term memory. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~763 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 14 | Research an external subject using web search, synthesize findings into a structured Basic Memory entity. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 15 | Schema lifecycle management for Basic Memory: discover unschemaed notes, infer schemas, create and edit schema definitions, validate notes, and detect drift. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 16 | Process unstructured external input (meeting transcripts, conversation logs, pasted documents) into structured Basic Memory entities. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 17 | 17.Memory Tasks Task management via Basic Memory schemas: create, track, and resume structured tasks that survive context compaction. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | 1 repo | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 18 | Reviews the current branch's diff with two different model families, has each try to refute the other's findings and reports the survivors by confidence. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 19 | Configures a Pi workspace to use Basic Memory for durable, project-scoped recall without touching the global default project. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~774 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 20 | Walks a user through installing and configuring the Basic Memory extension for Tau: inspect first, ask one decision at a time, choose where memory goes and verify the connection. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 21 | Runs a short guided interview that configures the Basic Memory plugin for a project: project mapping, note schemas, folder conventions and capture habits. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 22 | 22.Code Review A skill your agent uses when reviewing Basic Machines code for house style, architecture risk, pre-merge hardening, or whether a change fits basic-memory/basic-memory-cloud conventions. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~732 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 23 | Resume prior work by rebuilding context from the Basic Memory knowledge graph — pick up where you left off using memory:// URLs, recent activity, and search. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 24 | Curate the Basic Memory knowledge graph: find orphan notes and suggest links, propose typed relations, merge duplicates, audit tags and folders, and build hub notes. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 25 | Enforce the Basic Machines GitHub PR review loop before merging. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 26 | 26.Pull Request Drive GitHub pull request work end to end. An agent skill from basicmachines-co/basic-memory. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 27 | Write, refactor, and review Python for clarity, explicit behavior, local reasoning, strong types, constructive domain modeling, and minimal abstraction. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 28 | Create an immutable Codex handoff in Basic Memory and return an exact bm-orient resume command. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 29 | 29.Bm Setup Set up Basic Memory for Codex at user or project level by mapping a Basic Memory project and seeding schemas. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 30 | 30.Bm Status Report the Basic Memory for Codex configuration, reachability, hook expectations, recent Codex checkpoints, and active tasks. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 31 | A skill your agent uses when addressing Basic Memory pull request feedback, failed checks, or Codex review blockers, then re-running the latest-head review gate. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~469 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 32 | 32.PR Create A skill your agent uses when explicitly creating or updating a Basic Memory pull request. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~457 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 33 | 33.Basic Memory Use the Basic Memory knowledge graph for persistent memory across sessions. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 34 | Save a deliberate work checkpoint to Basic Memory with the story, changed files, verification, decisions, blockers, and the next action. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 35 | 35.Bm Remember Quickly capture a thought, fact, or reminder into Basic Memory as a lightweight note. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~750 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 36 | 36.Bm Share Promote a note from your personal Basic Memory project to a shared team project, with attribution. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~911 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 37 | 37.Bm Status Show the Basic Memory plugin's current state for this project — active project, capture folders, output style, recent session checkpoints, and whether Basic Memory is reachable. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 38 | Capture the current state of a working thread or conversation into a single coherent Basic Memory note — synthesize where it landed, don't append a log. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 39 | Synthesize GitHub delivery context into a concise Basic Memory project update. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~520 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 40 | 40.Bm Decide Capture a durable engineering decision in Basic Memory with rationale, alternatives, consequences, and affected work. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~512 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 41 | 41.Bm Orient Orient Claude from Basic Memory before substantial repo work by reading active tasks, open decisions, recent checkpoints, and repo conventions. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~802 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 42 | 42.Bm Orient Resume from an exact Basic Memory checkpoint or orient Codex from current graph and repository evidence. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 43 | 43.Bm Writing Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Codex. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~826 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 44 | Analyze a complete literary work into a structured Basic Memory knowledge graph. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 45 | 45.Bm Writing Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Claude. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~815 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 46 | Use Basic Memory from Pi for durable continuity. An agent skill from basicmachines-co/basic-memory. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~448 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 47 | 47.Bm Decide Capture a durable engineering decision in Basic Memory with rationale, alternatives, consequences, and affected work. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~323 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 48 | 48.Bm Remember Quickly save a small fact, reminder, or user preference into Basic Memory from Codex without turning it into a full decision or checkpoint. | basicmachines-co/ | 4.1k | — | ~327 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in basicmachines-co/basic-memory?
cmux Settings Editor from basicmachines-co/basic-memory ranks first of the 49 skills in basicmachines-co/basic-memory listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 4.1k GitHub stars, 1 other GitHub owner carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come cmux Window and Pane Control and Cmux Markdown Viewer Panel.
Are the skills in basicmachines-co/basic-memory official?
None yet. All 49 skills in basicmachines-co/basic-memory listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from basicmachines-co/basic-memory?
Run npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.