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Resume prior work by rebuilding context from the Basic Memory knowledge graph — pick up where you left off using memory:// URLs, recent activity, and search. Use when starting a session or when the user says 'continue with...', 'back to...', or 'where were we?'

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Quality

Content

82%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 well-structured, actionable skill body with concrete executable examples and a clear multi-step workflow. Minor gains are available from trimming description overlap and adding an explicit tool-failure feedback loop.

Suggestions

Remove or condense the 'When to Use' list since the frontmatter description already covers triggers, freeing token budget.

Add a brief feedback loop for when a tool call returns no results (e.g. broaden the timeframe, switch from search_notes to recent_activity) to lift workflow_clarity.

Consider moving the Timeframe Reference table into a references/ file if the body grows, keeping SKILL.md a lean overview.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Efficient body focused on the tool signatures Claude doesn't already know, with minor trim opportunities — the 'When to Use' section duplicates the frontmatter description and prose like 'The graph's connections are the point' is light padding.

4 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable, copy-paste-ready code blocks with real parameters (depth, timeframe, query, page_size) across build_context, recent_activity, search_notes, and read_note, covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The four-step Building Context flow (Identify → Gather → Read → Present) and scenario playbooks are clearly sequenced, and guideline 5 ('Confirm understanding') acts as a validation checkpoint, but there is no explicit error-handling loop for tool failures.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clear sections with no nested references and no bundle files inlined that belong elsewhere; the inline Timeframe Reference and Memory URL Reference tables are compact reference material that could optionally be split out, keeping it just below the top anchor.

4 / 5

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Description

90%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, well-targeted description with explicit 'what' and 'when' guidance and natural trigger phrases. The only weakness is second-person voice ('pick up where you left off'), which the rubric penalizes on specificity.

Suggestions

Rewrite in third person to avoid the specificity penalty: e.g. 'Resumes prior work by rebuilding context from the Basic Memory knowledge graph — picks up where the user left off using memory:// URLs, recent activity, and search.'

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain and several concrete mechanisms ('rebuilding context from the Basic Memory knowledge graph', 'memory:// URLs, recent activity, and search'), which sits at the 4-anchor, but the second-person phrasing 'pick up where you left off' triggers the rubric's one-point voice penalty, dropping it to 3.

3 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' ('Resume prior work by rebuilding context...') and 'when' ('Use when starting a session or when the user says...') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural trigger phrases users would actually say — 'starting a session', 'continue with...', 'back to...', 'where were we?' — covering the common variations a user would utter when needing this skill.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'Basic Memory knowledge graph' and 'memory://' URL niche plus resumption-specific triggers ('continue with...', 'where were we?') give it a clear niche with minimal overlap against other skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
basicmachines-co/basic-memory
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