memory-onboard
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Seeds long-term Mnemoverse memory with a project's durable conventions and decisions, taken from its README, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and contributing notes, one fact per memory and without saving what memory already holds. Use when the user starts using memory on an existing project, says \"onboard this repo\", \"learn this project\", or \"seed memory from the docs\", or when memory has nothing about a project the user works on often.
In this repository6 other files it gives its agents.
- agent-memory-disciplineSkill
- memory-catch-upSkill
- memory-saveSkill
- memory-searchSkill
- mnemoverse-docsSkill
- setupSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
4
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 10
Look for the tools memory_stats, memory_read, memory_list_recent and memory_write.
- Very specific: line 14
Call memory_stats to see the existing domains.
- Very specific: line 15
If the project has a domain, call memory_list_recent with that domain and follow the cursor to the end to see everything stored there.
- Distinctive: line 29
Leave out anything transient (open tasks, this week's status), anything that is only a link with no content, and any secret, key, token or …
- Very specific: line 38
Use the project's domain from step 1, or project:<repository-name> if there was none.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Onboard a project into memory
Check first
Look for the tools memory_stats, memory_read, memory_list_recent and memory_write. If they are missing, memory is not connected: say so in one sentence and use the bundled setup skill if it is installed, otherwise https://mnemoverse.com/docs/api/install-by-host.
1. See what is already there
- Call
memory_statsto see the existing domains. If the project already has one, such asproject:<repository-name>, reuse that exact spelling. - If the project has a domain, call
memory_list_recentwith thatdomainand follow the cursor to the end to see everything stored there; otherwise callmemory_readwith the project name. Facts already in memory are not written again.
2. Read the project's own documents
In this order, where they exist: README.md, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and any architecture or decision records the README points to.
Take only what stays true for months:
- how to build, run and test the project, with the exact commands;
- code style and naming conventions that are written down;
- decisions with their reasons ("we use X because Y");
- where things live: the main folders and what each is for;
- who owns what, if the documents say so.
Leave out anything transient (open tasks, this week's status), anything that is only a link with no content, and any secret, key, token or connection string, even an example one.
3. Show the list before writing
Present the facts as a short numbered list, each with the file it came from. Write only after the user agrees, and drop the ones the user strikes out.
4. Write
- One
memory_writeper fact,contentas a self-contained statement that names the project and the source file. - Use the project's domain from step 1, or
project:<repository-name>if there was none. - A write can be refused when memory already holds something too close to it in the same domain. If step 1 found the same fact, count it as already known; if the fact is genuinely different, write it once more with only what is new in it, and report any fact that is still refused.
5. Report
Say how many facts were saved, how many were already known, and which files were read. Suggest the memory-search skill for using them.
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Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.

