Add Qmd

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Semantic memory search

Example prompts

• “add qmd”
• “qmd memory”
• “semantic memory search”
• “/add-qmd”

Requirements

• Node.js

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Installs QMD as an MCP server dependency
2. 2Configures QMD to index all group memory directories (groups/*/memory/, groups/*/CLAUDE.md, groups/*/conversations/)
3. 3Replaces the grep-based memory_search in agent/runner/src/ipc-mcp-stdio.ts with QMD's API
4. 4Adds QMD indexing to the agent startup flow (incremental re-index on each run)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1395af4. 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 (its code samples are typescript and bash).

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

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • github.com

  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

Add Qmd loads about 629 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 232 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~75

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~629

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

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 sbusso/claudeclaw at commit 1395af4, republished under its MIT licence (© sbusso). 232 words, ~629 tokens.

name

add-qmd

description

Add QMD (Query Markup Documents) as an advanced memory search backend. Upgrades the built-in grep-based memory_search with hybrid BM25 + vector semantic search + LLM re-ranking. Fully local, no API keys needed. Triggers on "add qmd", "qmd memory", "semantic memory search", "upgrade memory".

qmd: {
  command: 'npx',
  args: ['qmd', 'mcp', '--collection', collectionPath],
  env: {},
}

# Index a group's memory
qmd index --collection groups/{folder}/.qmd groups/{folder}/memory/ groups/{folder}/CLAUDE.md groups/{folder}/conversations/

// Before (grep-based):
const results = grepFiles(args.query, allFiles);

// After (QMD):
// Use the qmd MCP server's search tool
// Returns semantically ranked results with relevance scores

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

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/add-qmd of sbusso/claudeclaw.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1395af4