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memory-lifecycle

Manage entity status transitions in Basic Memory: archive completed work, move notes between status folders, update frontmatter, and handle edge cases. Use when marking items complete, archiving old entities, or managing any folder-based status workflow.

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SKILL.md
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Content

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

The skill body is well-structured, actionable, and concise, with concrete code examples and a clear workflow. Its main weakness is the absence of explicit validation/verification feedback loops for destructive move and batch operations.

Suggestions

Add an explicit verification step after move_note (e.g. confirm the note resolves at its new path before updating frontmatter) to satisfy the destructive/batch validation requirement and lift the workflow_clarity cap.

Include a validate→fix→retry loop for batch 'archive all completed tasks' operations, checking each move succeeded before proceeding to the next.

Tighten the 'Core Principle: Archive, Never Delete' prose and consolidate the three Folder Conventions code blocks to reduce token overhead.

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Conciseness

The body is efficient and assumes Claude's competence without explaining basic concepts; minor explanatory prose (e.g. the 'Core Principle' paragraph) could be trimmed slightly.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete, executable calls for search_notes, move_note, and edit_note with realistic arguments covering the common and revert cases, with only minor gaps in edge-case argument handling.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 4-step sequence with ask-when-ambiguous checkpoints is present, but destructive/batch move operations lack explicit validate-then-retry verification, which caps this dimension per the rubric.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized with clear section headers and content appropriately placed in the single file; no bundle files exist, so structure carries the score, with only minor organization gaps.

4 / 5

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Description

88%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 clearly states capabilities and provides explicit trigger guidance. It is mostly distinct, though the generic 'folder-based status workflow' phrasing slightly raises overlap risk.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'archive completed work, move notes between status folders, update frontmatter, and handle edge cases' — giving comprehensive coverage of the skill's capabilities.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Manage entity status transitions...archive...move...update frontmatter') and when ('Use when marking items complete, archiving old entities, or managing any folder-based status workflow') with concrete triggers.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural trigger phrases like 'marking items complete', 'archiving old entities', and 'folder-based status workflow' are present, but a few common synonyms and variations are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'Basic Memory' / entity-status-transition niche is clear, but 'managing any folder-based status workflow' broadens scope and creates minor overlap risk with related memory-tasks skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

100%

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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basicmachines-co/basic-memory
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