Agent skill

Session Palace Builder

by athola in athola/claude-night-market

Builds session-scoped temporary memory palaces for extended conversations.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Session Palace Builder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill session-palace-builder -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market session-palace-builder --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/memory-palace/skills/session-palace-builder .claude/skills/session-palace-builder && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
session-palace-builder
GitHub stars
342
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
595 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
159
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Builds session-scoped temporary memory palaces for extended conversations.

  • Works in 5 steps: Analyze Context - Assess session scope… → Design Palace - Select template and layout → Structure State - Organize information… → …
  • Tracking state across interruptions in a multi-step project
  • SKILL.md covers What It Is, Quick Start, When To Use and When NOT To Use, plus 8 more sections
  • Calls make

What it does

Session Palace Builder is an agent skill from athola/claude-night-market. Builds session-scoped temporary memory palaces for extended conversations. Use when tracking state across interruptions in a multi-step project.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `modules/templates.md`).

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: 23 Claude Code plugins: TDD enforcement hooks, git/PR workflows, spec-driven development, code review, project lifecycle, fix-from-error, maintenance automation, context… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tracking state across interruptions in a multi-step project

Example prompts

  • “Use the session-palace-builder skill to build session-scoped temporary memory palaces for extended conversations”
  • “/session-palace-builder”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Analyze Context - Assess session scope and complexity
  2. Design Palace - Select template and layout
  3. Structure State - Organize information spatially
  4. Build Navigation - Create access shortcuts
  5. Test Integration - Verify context preservation

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9f3eb00. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • make

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Session Palace Builder loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 42 tokens; SKILL.md has 595 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~42
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from athola/claude-night-market at commit 9f3eb00, republished under its MIT licence (© athola). 595 words, ~1,417 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/session-palace-builder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
session-palace-builder
description
Builds session-scoped temporary memory palaces for extended conversations. Use when tracking state across interruptions in a multi-step project.
alwaysApply
false
category
session-management
tags
session, context, project-memory, conversation-state, temporary-storage
dependencies
memory-palace-architect
usage_patterns
session-context, project-tracking, state-management
complexity
intermediate
model_hint
standard
estimated_tokens
500

Session Palace Builder

Construct temporary, session-specific memory palaces for extended conversations and complex projects. Preserves context across interruptions and enables structured information accumulation.

What It Is

Session palaces are lightweight, temporary memory structures that:

  • Preserve context for extended conversations
  • Track decisions and their rationale
  • Organize project artifacts spatially
  • Enable context recovery after interruptions
  • Support collaborative information gathering

Quick Start

Build Commands

```bash

Run build

make build

Clean and rebuild

make clean && make build ```

Testing

```bash

Run tests

make test

Run with verbose output

make test VERBOSE=1 ```

Verification: Run make test to confirm the plugin gate passes.

When To Use

  • Extended conversations requiring context preservation
  • Complex, multi-step projects with interrelated components
  • Workflows requiring state management across interactions
  • Collaborative sessions accumulating information over time
  • Code review or debugging sessions with many findings

When NOT To Use

  • Permanent knowledge structures needed - use memory-palace-architect
  • Searching existing knowledge
    • use knowledge-locator
  • Permanent knowledge structures needed - use memory-palace-architect
  • Searching existing knowledge
    • use knowledge-locator

Session Palace Templates

TemplatePurposeKey Areas
WorkshopActive developmentWorkbench, tools, materials
LibraryResearch and analysisStacks, reading room, archives
Council ChamberDecision-makingRound table, evidence wall, vote board
ObservatoryExploration and discoveryTelescope, star charts, log book
ForgeImplementation tasksAnvil, cooling rack, finished goods

Information Categories

Organize session content into these standard areas:

  • Conversations - Dialogue threads and key exchanges
  • Decisions - Choices made with rationale
  • Code - Snippets and technical artifacts
  • Research - Findings and references
  • Requirements - Specifications and constraints
  • Progress - Completed milestones
  • Issues - Blockers and challenges
  • Next Steps - Pending action items

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze Context - Assess session scope and complexity
  2. Design Palace - Select template and layout
  3. Structure State - Organize information spatially
  4. Build Navigation - Create access shortcuts
  5. Test Integration - Verify context preservation

Session Lifecycle

Create → Populate → Navigate → Export/Archive
   ↑         ↓          ↓
   └─── Checkpoint ←────┘

Verification: Run the command with --help flag to verify availability.

Show full SKILL.md (300 more words)Show less

Clarity Checkpoints

A session palace decays silently: each Populate step can add ambiguity that only surfaces at Export, when it is too late to recover the lost state. MMPO (arXiv:2605.30159, Section 3) frames this as a case for sub-trajectory dense rewards: check intermediate quality at each transition, not just the final outcome.

At every Checkpoint arrow in the lifecycle above (and before any Export/Archive), run the dual-probe gate against the current palace state:

Skill(memory-palace:memory-clarity-probe)

The probe returns a Clarity Assessment with progress/gap verdicts and a Recommendation:

RecommendationAction at the checkpoint
ProceedPalace state is clear; continue the session
Expand memoryAdd the gap probe's open items to the palace before continuing
RegenerateFlag the session as ambiguous: the progress probe hedges, so reconstruct the current-state room before more work lands on it

Flagging at the checkpoint, not at export, is the point: an ambiguous palace caught early costs one room rebuild; caught at export it costs the session.

When memory-clarity-probe is not installed, ask the two anchor questions inline (progress: what is done and what state is the task in; gap: what concrete items remain) and apply the same table.

Detailed Resources

  • Template Details: See modules/templates.md
  • State Management: See modules/templates.md
  • Export Patterns: See modules/templates.md

Integration

  • memory-palace-architect - Export important concepts to permanent palaces
  • knowledge-locator - Search session content
  • digital-garden-cultivator - Seed garden with session insights
  • memory-clarity-probe - Dual-probe clarity gate at session checkpoints

Exit Criteria

  • A session palace is created with a template and spatial layout before any state is populated
  • The dual-probe clarity gate runs at each Checkpoint transition and before Export/Archive, not only at the end
  • A checkpoint returning Expand memory or Regenerate is acted on (gap items added or current-state room rebuilt) before more work lands, and the ambiguous session is flagged
  • Exported concepts round-trip into a permanent palace via memory-palace-architect

© athola, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in plugins/memory-palace/skills/session-palace-builder of athola/claude-night-market.

  • SKILL.md
  • modules/templates.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9f3eb00

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Questions about Session Palace Builder

What does Session Palace Builder do?

Builds session-scoped temporary memory palaces for extended conversations. Session Palace Builder is an agent skill from athola/claude-night-market. Builds session-scoped temporary memory palaces for extended conversations.

When should I use Session Palace Builder?

Session Palace Builder fits situations like: tracking state across interruptions in a multi-step project.

How do I install Session Palace Builder in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill session-palace-builder -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/memory-palace/skills/session-palace-builder in athola/claude-night-market) into .claude/skills/session-palace-builder in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Session Palace Builder in Codex?

Run `npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill session-palace-builder -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/memory-palace/skills/session-palace-builder in athola/claude-night-market) into .agents/skills/session-palace-builder in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Session Palace Builder in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill session-palace-builder -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/session-palace-builder, .gemini/skills/session-palace-builder, .github/skills/session-palace-builder and .opencode/skills/session-palace-builder in your project.

What does Session Palace Builder need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Session Palace Builder needs the command-line tools its instructions call (make).

Does Session Palace Builder access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Session Palace Builder safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Session Palace Builder use?

Session Palace Builder is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Session Palace Builder use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Session Palace Builder?

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Who maintains Session Palace Builder?

athola (a GitHub user) maintains it in athola/claude-night-market, which has 342 GitHub stars. The repository holds 159 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: athola/claude-night-market on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.