Remember

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Something worth persisting across sessions was just learned
• Tasks that involve Knowledge graphs

Example prompts

• “/remember”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Claude Code 2.1.277+. Requires memory MCP server.
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, AskUserQuestion, mcp__memory__create_entities, mcp__memory__create_relations, mcp__memory__add_observations, mcp__memory__search_nodes

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Parse Input
2. 2Auto-Detect Category
3. 3Extract Lesson (for anti-patterns)
4. 4Confirm Type + Scope (AskUserQuestion — M118 #1466)
5. 5Confirm Storage

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1f8d8f3. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Bash
  • AskUserQuestion
  • mcp__memory__create_entities
  • mcp__memory__create_relations
  • mcp__memory__add_observations
  • mcp__memory__search_nodes

  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 python).

  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.

• Compatibility

  Claude Code 2.1.277+. Requires memory MCP server.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Remember loads about 2.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 754 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~88

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

~2.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~4.7k

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

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, AskUserQuestion, mcp__memory__create_entities, mcp__memory__create_relations

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 yonatangross/orchestkit at commit 1f8d8f3, republished under its MIT licence (© yonatangross). 754 words, ~2,478 tokens.

name

remember

description

Write-side memory: stores decisions, patterns, and outcomes in the MCP memory knowledge graph as entities with typed observations and relations. Use when something worth persisting across sessions was just learned or decided. To search or read existing memory, invoke memory; to debug retrieval internals, memory-fabric; to consolidate, dream.

allowed-tools

Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, AskUserQuestion, mcp__memory__create_entities, mcp__memory__create_relations, mcp__memory__add_observations, mcp__memory__search_nodes

compatibility

Claude Code 2.1.277+. Requires memory MCP server.

license

MIT

argument-hint

[decision-or-pattern]

context

inherit

user-invocable

true

effort

low

model

haiku

metadata.category

workflow-automation

metadata.mcp-server

memory

metadata.version

3.0.1

metadata.author

OrchestKit

TEXT = "$ARGUMENTS"        # Full argument string, e.g., "We use cursor pagination"
FLAG = "$ARGUMENTS[0]"     # First token — check for --success, --failed, --category, --agent
# Parse flags from $ARGUMENTS[0], $ARGUMENTS[1] etc. (CC 2.1.59 indexed access)
# Remaining tokens after flags = the text to remember

remember <text>
remember --category <category> <text>
remember --success <text>     # Mark as successful pattern
remember --failed <text>      # Mark as anti-pattern
remember --success --category <category> <text>

# Agent-scoped memory
remember --agent <agent-id> <text>         # Store in agent-specific scope
remember --global <text>                   # Store as cross-project best practice

Check for --success flag → outcome: success
Check for --failed flag → outcome: failed
Check for --category <category> flag
Check for --agent <agent-id> flag → agent_id: "ork:{agent-id}"
Check for --global flag → use global user_id
Extract the text to remember
If no category specified, auto-detect from content

# Skip when the invocation already specifies type and scope:
#   remember --type=preference --global  → skip, use those values
#   remember --session  → skip, no persistence
#
# Otherwise, ask both:
AskUserQuestion(questions=[
  {"question": "What type of memory?",
   "header": "Type",
   "options": [
     {"label": "Preference", "description": "How I like to work (style, format, tooling)"},
     {"label": "Project fact", "description": "State of THIS codebase (decisions, constraints)"},
     {"label": "Reference", "description": "External system pointer (URL, doc, dashboard)"},
     {"label": "Feedback", "description": "Correction to future behavior — applied as a rule"}
   ]},
  {"question": "Apply to?",
   "header": "Scope",
   "options": [
     {"label": "This project (default)", "description": "Scoped to .claude/projects/<this-project>/memory/"},
     {"label": "All projects (global)", "description": "User-level memory at ~/.claude/memory/"},
     {"label": "This session only", "description": "Print to context but don't persist"}
   ]}
])

© yonatangross, 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 10 other files (references) in src/skills/remember of yonatangross/orchestkit.

• SKILL.md
• references/category-detection.md
• references/confirmation-templates.md
• references/entity-extraction-workflow.md
• references/examples.md
• references/graph-operations.md
• rules/_sections.md
• rules/duplicate-entity-detection.md
• rules/entity-relationship-validation.md
• rules/observation-quality-gate.md
• test-cases.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1f8d8f3