Asd Ste100
danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill
A skill your agent uses when English text must be parsed without a human to resolve ambiguity — tool descriptions, error messages, inter-agent instructions, system prompts, status reports — and…
Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Codex.
Install Bm Writing
$ npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install basicmachines-co/basic-memory bm-writing --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing .claude/skills/bm-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "bm-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/main/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing into .claude/skills/bm-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bm-writing", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/main/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writingType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install basicmachines-co/basic-memory bm-writing --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing .agents/skills/bm-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "bm-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/main/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing into .agents/skills/bm-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bm-writing", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install basicmachines-co/basic-memory bm-writing --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing .cursor/skills/bm-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "bm-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/main/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing into .cursor/skills/bm-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bm-writing", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory.git --path plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install basicmachines-co/basic-memory bm-writing --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing .gemini/skills/bm-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "bm-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/main/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing into .gemini/skills/bm-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bm-writing", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install basicmachines-co/basic-memory bm-writingInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing .github/skills/bm-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "bm-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/main/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing into .github/skills/bm-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bm-writing", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install basicmachines-co/basic-memory bm-writing --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing .opencode/skills/bm-writing && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "bm-writing" agent skill from https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/main/plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing into .opencode/skills/bm-writing/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bm-writing", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
bm-writing- GitHub stars
- 4.1k
- Token cost
- ~826 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 449 words
- Files
- 3 (incl. assets)
- Skills in repo
- 49
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
At a glance
Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Codex.
- Tasks that involve Plain language and style rules
- SKILL.md covers Voice, Tell The Story, Anchor The Work and Preserve The Semantic Layer, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Bm Writing is an agent skill from basicmachines-co/basic-memory. Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Codex. Use with bm-checkpoint, bm-decide, bm-remember, and other Basic Memory note-writing workflows.
Its SKILL.md is about 830 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including assets (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).
It sits in Writing & Content, covering Plain language and style rules. The repository describes itself as: AI conversations that actually remember. Never re-explain your project to your AI again. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tyvKNccgqN. The licence is AGPL-3.0.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Plain language and style rules
Example prompts
- “/bm-writing”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6982cfc. 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
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
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
Bm Writing loads about 826 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 54 tokens; SKILL.md has 449 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 basicmachines-co/basic-memory at commit 6982cfc, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© basicmachines-co). 449 words, ~826 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/bm-writing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- bm-writing
- description
- Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Codex. Use with bm-checkpoint, bm-decide, bm-remember, and other Basic Memory note-writing workflows.
Write Useful Project Memory
Use this shared standard whenever a Codex Basic Memory skill writes or substantially revises a note. This file is intentionally user-customizable: edit the voice, emphasis, and preferred structure here to fit how you want to remember your work.
Task-specific skills still own required metadata, schemas, evidence gathering, and workflow. This skill shapes the note; it never overrides factual constraints.
Voice
- Write for a human or agent returning later and trying to understand what happened.
- Be clear, direct, warm, and technically honest.
- Prefer concrete observations over generic praise.
- Have a point of view when the evidence supports it. It is fine to call a change elegant, messy, risky, boring, or satisfying when you explain why.
- Keep personality in service of memory, not performance.
Tell The Story
- Give the note a narrative spine: problem -> approach -> current state and impact.
- Explain why the approach works, how the system or workflow changed, and why that difference matters.
- Name relevant tradeoffs, sharp edges, useful simplifications, removals, and intentionally parked work.
- Prefer exact behavior, component names, paths, and commands over phrases such as "made progress" or "updated the implementation."
- Use substantive prose for context and reasoning. Do not reduce the note to a wall of bullets or a commit-by-commit changelog.
- Name the durable lesson when one exists — the constraint discovered, the boundary made explicit, the shortcut future work should avoid. That is the part that turns a status report into project memory.
- Match depth to the subject. A small remembered fact should remain small.
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Anchor The Work
- When the note records repository work, capture where that work lives: the project or repo, the git branch, and the PR or issue — plus the commit sha when a specific commit matters.
- Put anchors the note's schema defines in frontmatter; record the rest as
observations, e.g.
- [branch] feat/bm-writingor- [pr] #1123. - Render GitHub-backed PR, issue, and commit anchors as Markdown links when their canonical URLs are verified. Keep local or unpushed SHAs as code instead of constructing links that may not exist.
- Only anchor what is relevant. A remembered fact with no repo context needs no git anchors at all.
Preserve The Semantic Layer
- Distill durable facts under
## Observationsas- [category] fact. - Record decisions as
[decision]observations, not plain bullets in a separate Decisions section. - Put graph edges under
## Relationsusing- relation_type [[Target Note]]. Never represent a relation as an observation such as[relates_to]. - Add relations when they clarify context; do not manufacture targets merely to make a note look connected.
Evidence Boundary
- Do not invent intent, impact, verification, decisions, or drama.
- State uncertainty and missing evidence plainly.
- Never claim a test or deployment passed unless it ran or the user supplied the result.
© basicmachines-co, AGPL-3.0. 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 2 other files (assets) in plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing of basicmachines-co/basic-memory.
- SKILL.md
- agents/openai.yaml
- assets/icon.svg
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6982cfc
Compare with similar skills
Bm Writing next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bm Writing this skillbasicmachines-co/basic-memory | 4.1k | — | ~826 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | |
| Asd Ste100danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill | 3.9k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Natural Japanese Business Writingcoji/natural-japanese | 1.9k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Technical Writing Standardcursor/plugins | 10k | 10 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| PgjevrealZachi/pg-jev | 1k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Defensive Writing Editorlennney/stop-that-shit | 2.5k | 1 repos | ~902 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Bm Writing
What does Bm Writing do?
Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Codex. Bm Writing is an agent skill from basicmachines-co/basic-memory. Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Codex.
When should I use Bm Writing?
Bm Writing fits situations like: tasks that involve Plain language and style rules.
How do I install Bm Writing in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing in basicmachines-co/basic-memory) into .claude/skills/bm-writing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Bm Writing in Codex?
Run `npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/codex/skills/bm-writing in basicmachines-co/basic-memory) into .agents/skills/bm-writing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Bm Writing 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 basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill bm-writing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bm-writing, .gemini/skills/bm-writing, .github/skills/bm-writing and .opencode/skills/bm-writing in your project.
What does Bm Writing need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Bm Writing is instructions for the agent only.
Does Bm Writing 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 Bm Writing 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 Bm Writing use?
Bm Writing is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Bm Writing use?
About 826 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.3k 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 Bm Writing?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Bm Writing: Asd Ste100 (danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill, 3.9k stars), Natural Japanese Business Writing (coji/natural-japanese, 1.9k stars), Technical Writing Standard (cursor/plugins, 10k stars) and Pgjev (realZachi/pg-jev, 1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Bm Writing?
basicmachines-co (a GitHub organization) maintains it in basicmachines-co/basic-memory, which has 4,107 GitHub stars. The repository holds 49 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.
Source: basicmachines-co/basic-memory on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.