Agent skill

Build My Memory File

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Interview you into a durable personal MEMORY.md — your decision rules, patterns, past failures, and preferences — that any AI can read to help you better, with privacy guardrails built in.

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Build My Memory File

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill build-my-memory-file -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills build-my-memory-file --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/build-my-memory-file .claude/skills/build-my-memory-file && 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
build-my-memory-file
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
561 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Interview you into a durable personal MEMORY.md — your decision rules, patterns, past failures, and preferences — that any AI can read to help you better, with privacy guardrails built in.

  • Works in 5 steps: Draw it out with questions. Most people… → Capture rules, patterns, and failures.… → Write it for an AI to use. Structure it… → …
  • Asked to build my memory file
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Interview,… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Build My Memory File is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Interview you into a durable personal MEMORY.md — your decision rules, patterns, past failures, and preferences — that any AI can read to help you better, with privacy guardrails built in. Use when asked to build my memory file, help my AI remember me, create a MEMORY.md, or set up context about myself. Produces a structured personal-context file drawn out through good questions (how you decide, what you keep repeating, what you don't want to repeat), organized for an AI to use — while explicitly refusing to…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to build my memory file
  • Help my AI remember me
  • Create a MEMORY.md
  • Set up context about myself

Example prompts

  • “/build-my-memory-file”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Draw it out with questions. Most people can't just list their operating rules — good questions surface them ("how do you usually decide…
  2. Capture rules, patterns, and failures. The high-value contents: decision criteria, recurring preferences, and past mistakes not to repeat.
  3. Write it for an AI to use. Structure it in clear sections with concrete, actionable statements — not vague self-description.
  4. Enforce the privacy line. Explicitly refuse to store credentials, account numbers, financial details, health data, home address…
  5. Make it maintainable. Keep it a living file — a format easy to add one line to over time, and a note on how to use it (paste it, or…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Build My Memory File loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 155 tokens; SKILL.md has 561 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~155
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 561 words, ~1,189 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/build-my-memory-file/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
build-my-memory-file
description
Interview you into a durable personal MEMORY.md — your decision rules, patterns, past failures, and preferences — that any AI can read to help you better, with privacy guardrails built in. Use when asked to build my memory file, help my AI remember me, create a MEMORY.md, or set up context about myself. Produces a structured personal-context file drawn out through good questions (how you decide, what you keep repeating, what you don't want to repeat), organized for an AI to use — while explicitly refusing to store sensitive data like credentials, financial, health, or others' personal info.

Build My Memory File

The single biggest upgrade to working with AI isn't a better prompt — it's a MEMORY.md that captures how you work, so you stop re-explaining yourself every session. This interviews you into one: your decision criteria, recurring patterns, past mistakes worth not repeating, and preferences — organized so any AI can read it and help you better. And it has a hard privacy line: no credentials, no financial, health, or other people's personal data.

Not quite this? Use memory-file-maintenance when you already have a memory file that has drifted and needs pruning.

What This Skill Produces

  • A structured MEMORY.md — your durable personal context, in sections an AI can use
  • Your decision rules — how you actually make choices, your criteria, your non-negotiables
  • Your patterns — the things you keep doing (good and bad), your recurring instructions and preferences
  • Your "don't repeat these" — past failures and lessons worth remembering
  • Working preferences — how you like things done, communicated, and delivered
  • A privacy firewall — an explicit list of what NOT to store, and it refuses to include it

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The scope — general life, or a specific domain (work, a project, health-adjacent-but-not-sensitive)
  • What you keep re-explaining — the context you're tired of repeating to AI
  • Your patterns — decisions you make the same way, mistakes you repeat
  • Your preferences — how you like output, communication, and process

Framework: Interview, Structure, Protect

  1. Draw it out with questions. Most people can't just list their operating rules — good questions surface them ("how do you usually decide X?", "what do you keep having to redo?").
  2. Capture rules, patterns, and failures. The high-value contents: decision criteria, recurring preferences, and past mistakes not to repeat.
  3. Write it for an AI to use. Structure it in clear sections with concrete, actionable statements — not vague self-description.
  4. Enforce the privacy line. Explicitly refuse to store credentials, account numbers, financial details, health data, home address, authentication info, or other people's personal information — and tell the user to manage those elsewhere.
  5. Make it maintainable. Keep it a living file — a format easy to add one line to over time, and a note on how to use it (paste it, or reference it in a global AI config).
Show full SKILL.md (190 more words)Show less

Output Format

MEMORY.md — [scope]
# My decision rules
- [how I decide X / my criteria / non-negotiables]

# My patterns
- [recurring preferences, instructions, tendencies]

# Don't repeat these (past lessons)
- [mistakes not to make again]

# How I like things done
- [communication / output / process preferences]

How to use it: [paste at the start of a session, or add to your AI's global config]. Keeping it alive: add one line whenever you notice a rule or lesson.

Not stored here: passwords, account/card numbers, financial or health details, home address, auth info, or other people's personal information. Keep those in a secure place you control — never in AI-readable memory.

Quality Checks

  • Draws content out through questions, not a blank template
  • Captures decision rules, patterns, and past-failure lessons
  • Written as concrete, AI-usable statements
  • Explicitly excludes and refuses sensitive/personal data
  • Is a maintainable, living format with usage guidance

Anti-Patterns

  • A blank template with no interviewing.
  • Vague self-description an AI can't act on.
  • Storing sensitive data (credentials, financial, health, others' info) — hard no.
  • A one-off file with no way to keep it current.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Help me build a MEMORY.md so my AI understands how I work."
  • "Interview me into a personal context file for Claude."
  • "I'm tired of re-explaining myself to AI — set up my memory."
  • "Create a file of my decision rules and preferences."
  • "Help my AI remember my patterns and past mistakes."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/build-my-memory-file of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Build My Memory File

What does Build My Memory File do?

Interview you into a durable personal MEMORY.md — your decision rules, patterns, past failures, and preferences — that any AI can read to help you better, with privacy guardrails built in. Build My Memory File is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.md — your decision rules, patterns, past failures, and preferences — that any AI can read to help you better, with privacy guardrails built in.

When should I use Build My Memory File?

Build My Memory File fits situations like: asked to build my memory file; help my AI remember me; create a MEMORY.md; set up context about myself.

How do I install Build My Memory File in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill build-my-memory-file -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/build-my-memory-file in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/build-my-memory-file in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Build My Memory File in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill build-my-memory-file -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/build-my-memory-file in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/build-my-memory-file in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Build My Memory File 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill build-my-memory-file -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/build-my-memory-file, .gemini/skills/build-my-memory-file, .github/skills/build-my-memory-file and .opencode/skills/build-my-memory-file in your project.

What does Build My Memory File need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Build My Memory File is instructions for the agent only.

Does Build My Memory File 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 Build My Memory File 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 Build My Memory File use?

Build My Memory File 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 Build My Memory File use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Build My Memory File?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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