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Agent skill

Memory Stewardship

by murray17 in murray17/rovai-ai

Maintain durable collaboration preferences, agreements and lessons when the user asks to remember, correct or stop using them, or current evidence warrants capture.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Memory Stewardship

skills CLI
$ npx skills add murray17/rovai-ai --skill memory-stewardship -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install murray17/rovai-ai memory-stewardship --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/murray17/rovai-ai.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/memory-stewardship .claude/skills/memory-stewardship && 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
memory-stewardship
GitHub stars
157
Token cost
~317 tokens
SKILL.md length
120 words
Files
7 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
9
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Maintain durable collaboration preferences, agreements and lessons when the user asks to remember, correct or stop using them, or current evidence warrants capture.

  • Works in 5 steps: Read Authority and safety to assess… → Reduce the candidate to one durable… → Follow Read and write: inspect the… → …
  • Asks to remember
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Stop using them

What it does

Memory Stewardship is an agent skill from murray17/rovai-ai. Maintain durable collaboration preferences, agreements and lessons when the user asks to remember, correct or stop using them, or current evidence warrants capture. Excludes temporary work, project facts, sensitive data and speculation.

Its SKILL.md is about 320 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 8 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `references/authority-and-safety.md` and `references/content-and-keys.md`).

It sits in Agent Workflows. The repository describes itself as: Desktop and web workspace for lasting teams of coding agents, with shared conversations, task delegation, and collaborative memory. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asks to remember
  • Stop using them
  • Current evidence warrants capture

Example prompts

  • “/memory-stewardship”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read Authority and safety to assess eligibility.
  2. Reduce the candidate to one durable understanding; select its smallest valid Scope and Kind.
  3. Follow Read and write: inspect the complete applicable Scope, then stop, revise or add once.
  4. Before writing, apply Body and retrieval keys.
  5. Report the actual outcome: effective, pending user review, or not written.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e1d6f3e. 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

Memory Stewardship loads about 317 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 64 tokens; SKILL.md has 120 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~64
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~317
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.2k

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 murray17/rovai-ai at commit e1d6f3e, republished under its MIT licence (© murray17). 120 words, ~317 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/memory-stewardship/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
memory-stewardship
description
Maintain durable collaboration preferences, agreements and lessons when the user asks to remember, correct or stop using them, or current evidence warrants capture. Excludes temporary work, project facts, sensitive data and speculation.

Memory stewardship

Preserve only information that will change future collaboration. Current instructions, facts and project authority outrank Memory. Use the user's language for Memory content and reports.

  1. Read Authority and safety to assess eligibility.
  2. Reduce the candidate to one durable understanding; select its smallest valid Scope and Kind.
  3. Follow Read and write: inspect the complete applicable Scope, then stop, revise or add once.
  4. Before writing, apply Body and retrieval keys.
  5. Report the actual outcome: effective, pending user review, or not written.

Do not run an end-of-conversation Memory sweep or write several speculative candidates. Deletion, deactivation, restoration and changes outside the Agent's authority require the user's Memory management controls; an opposite statement cannot simulate those actions.

© murray17, 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 6 other files (references) in skills/memory-stewardship of murray17/rovai-ai.

  • SKILL.md
  • NOTICE
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/authority-and-safety.md
  • references/content-and-keys.md
  • references/read-write-workflow.md
  • references/scopes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e1d6f3e

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Categories

Questions about Memory Stewardship

What does Memory Stewardship do?

Maintain durable collaboration preferences, agreements and lessons when the user asks to remember, correct or stop using them, or current evidence warrants capture. Memory Stewardship is an agent skill from murray17/rovai-ai. Maintain durable collaboration preferences, agreements and lessons when the user asks to remember, correct or stop using them, or current evidence warrants capture.

When should I use Memory Stewardship?

Memory Stewardship fits situations like: asks to remember; stop using them; current evidence warrants capture.

How do I install Memory Stewardship in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add murray17/rovai-ai --skill memory-stewardship -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/memory-stewardship in murray17/rovai-ai) into .claude/skills/memory-stewardship in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Memory Stewardship in Codex?

Run `npx skills add murray17/rovai-ai --skill memory-stewardship -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/memory-stewardship in murray17/rovai-ai) into .agents/skills/memory-stewardship in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Memory Stewardship 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 murray17/rovai-ai --skill memory-stewardship -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/memory-stewardship, .gemini/skills/memory-stewardship, .github/skills/memory-stewardship and .opencode/skills/memory-stewardship in your project.

What does Memory Stewardship need to run?

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

Does Memory Stewardship 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 Memory Stewardship 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 Memory Stewardship use?

Memory Stewardship 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 Memory Stewardship use?

About 317 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Memory Stewardship?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Memory Stewardship: MCP Server Builder (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars), Using Superpowers (farm-fe/farm, 5.6k stars) and Executing Plans Inline (obra/superpowers, 297k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Memory Stewardship?

murray17 (a GitHub user) maintains it in murray17/rovai-ai, which has 157 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: murray17/rovai-ai on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.