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memory-continue

Resume prior work by rebuilding context from the Basic Memory graph via memory:// URLs, recent activity, and search. Use at session start or on 'continue with...', 'back to...', 'where were we?'

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75%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A highly actionable body: concrete, copy-paste-ready bm_* calls, situation-based tool routing, and a clearly numbered workflow reinforced by scenario playbooks and a confirm-before-acting checkpoint. Its main weakness is conciseness — repeated project-scoping guidance and self-evident timeframe rows — plus a missing recovery loop for empty results.

Suggestions

State project-scoping rules once: merge 'Project Discovery' and the 'Project scope' section (both explain bm_project(command="list") and the qualified-URL-vs-project point) and drop the redundant restatements in Guidelines #1 and #4.

Trim the Timeframe Reference table to the non-obvious accepted syntax (compact forms like "3d"/"7d", and that natural-language strings are accepted) and remove self-evident rows like '"today" | Current day'.

Add a short error-recovery step for empty or no-match results (e.g., what to do when bm_search returns nothing or bm_context yields an empty graph), turning the 'recovering from a refusal' mention into concrete guidance.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient tool-specific detail, but padded in places: the Timeframe table spells out self-evident rows ('"today" | Current day') and project-scoping rules are repeated across 'Project scope', 'Project Discovery', and Guidelines #1/#4. Not 4 because this duplication is more than minor trimming; not 2 because there is no explanation of concepts Claude already knows and the bm_* API detail genuinely earns its tokens.

3 / 5

Actionability

Every step ships copy-paste-ready calls with real parameter values (bm_context(identifier=..., depth=2, since="7d"), bm_search(query=..., compact=True), bm_read(..., start_line=120, end_line=180, section="Status")), and the playbooks cover the common routing cases. Not 4 because nothing is pseudocode — placeholders like '<project>' are appropriate parameterization, not gaps.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

'Building Context' is a clearly numbered 1–4 sequence with situation-based tool routing, scenario playbooks restate it per case, and Guidelines #5 ('Verify the reconstructed context is what the user actually needs before acting on it') plus 'If it's unclear, ask' act as checkpoints. Not 5 because there is no explicit error-recovery loop — 'recovering from a refusal' is name-checked but never elaborated, and empty search/context results have no follow-up guidance.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ absent) and the body is well-sectioned — scope, When to Use, Building Context, Memory URL Reference, Timeframe Reference, Scenario Playbooks, Project Discovery, Guidelines — making it easy to navigate. Not 5 because at ~175 lines the single file repeats scoping content across sections ('Project scope' vs 'Project Discovery' vs Guidelines) where a leaner split would improve navigation.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

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Description

87%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that explicitly answers both what (rebuild context from the Basic Memory graph via memory:// URLs, recent activity, and search) and when (session start, 'continue with...', 'back to...', 'where were we?') in third person. The only room to grow is fuller coverage of downstream actions and a few natural trigger synonyms.

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Specificity

Names the domain ('Basic Memory graph') and three concrete mechanisms ('via memory:// URLs, recent activity, and search'), matching the anchor 'lists several specific actions; minor gaps in coverage'. Not 5 because it stops at context-gathering — reading notes in full, summarizing, and writing progress back are part of the skill but unmentioned.

4 / 5

Completeness

'Resume prior work by rebuilding context from the Basic Memory graph via memory:// URLs, recent activity, and search' clearly states what, and 'Use at session start or on "continue with...", "back to...", "where were we?"' explicitly states when with concrete trigger phrases — an exact match for the top anchor. Not 4 because the 'when' clause is already fully explicit, not merely present.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes literal user utterances as triggers ('continue with...', 'back to...', 'where were we?') plus 'session start' and 'Resume prior work' — good natural keyword coverage. Not 5 because common variations like 'pick up where we left off' or 'what were we doing' are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The tool-specific niche ('Basic Memory graph', 'memory:// URLs') combined with distinct resume-oriented trigger phrases gives a clear niche with minimal conflict risk. Not 4 because the scope cleanly separates it from generic memory-management or note-writing skills.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

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Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

basicmachines-co/basic-memory

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skills/memory-continue/SKILL.md

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