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memory-onboarding

Guide someone new to Basic Memory through designing and building a complete personal knowledge system — interview them about what they want to track, propose a structure, build it with schemas and instruction notes, teach them to use it, and set up their AI assistant to load it automatically. Use this skill whenever a user says they're new to Basic Memory, wants to 'get started', 'set up', or 'onboard' with Basic Memory, doesn't know what to use it for, asks how to organize their memory project or knowledge base, wants help designing folders/schemas/conventions, or asks how to make their assistant remember context between sessions. Also use it when a user has an empty or messy Basic Memory project and wants structure.

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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.

A well-structured, actionable onboarding skill with excellent workflow sequencing, validation feedback loops, and clean one-level-deep reference navigation. Its only weakness is mild verbosity in the motivational/rationale prose that doesn't directly advance execution.

Suggestions

Tighten the 'Why this approach' section: convert the four-point rationale into a brief bulleted list of the non-negotiables and drop the motivational prose ('a sprawling empty scaffold dies', 'barely better than a folder of text files').

The 'Speak Plainly' section re-explains the user-facing framing at length; condense it to the three concrete plain-word definitions and the 'user never writes syntax' rule, removing the meta-commentary about catching yourself defining terms.

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Conciseness

Largely lean and assumes Claude's competence without explaining known concepts, but the 'Why this approach' rationale and motivational prose ('a sprawling empty scaffold dies', 'barely better than a folder of text files') could be trimmed without losing actionable guidance.

2 / 3

Actionability

Concrete, executable guidance throughout — named tool calls (write_note, schema_validate, list_memory_projects, build_context, edit_note), an explicit build order, a concrete domain menu, and per-phase validation actions, fully actionable for an instruction-only skill.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Phases 0–6 are clearly sequenced with an explicit approval gate between Phase 2 and 3, a validate→fix feedback loop in Phase 3 ('run schema_validate... fix anything it flags'), and a Phase 4 verification test, satisfying the explicit-validation anchor for risky batch/migration operations.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

SKILL.md is a well-signaled overview pointing to four real, one-level-deep reference files (all verified present) via a 'Reference files / read when' table, with content appropriately split and easy to navigate.

3 / 3

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Description

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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, third-person description that pairs a concrete multi-step capability list with explicit, natural-language trigger clauses tied to the Basic Memory onboarding niche. It cleanly answers both 'what' and 'when' with minimal fluff.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'interview them about what they want to track, propose a structure, build it with schemas and instruction notes, teach them to use it, and set up their AI assistant to load it automatically' — matching the 'lists multiple specific concrete actions' anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('designing and building a complete personal knowledge system') and when, via an explicit 'Use this skill whenever...' trigger clause plus a secondary 'Also use it when...' clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural phrasings a user would actually say — 'new to Basic Memory', 'get started', 'set up', 'onboard', 'how to organize their memory project or knowledge base', 'make their assistant remember context between sessions' — broad coverage of common variations.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clearly defined Basic Memory onboarding niche with product-specific triggers ('new to Basic Memory', 'empty or messy Basic Memory project'), making false triggers for other skills unlikely.

3 / 3

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Validation

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

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basicmachines-co/basic-memory
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