What is the primary benefit of the Memory Protocol skill?

It prevents redundant work by requiring the agent to search for previous solutions before starting a new task, saving time and maintaining architectural consistency.

Does this skill store every single command I run?

No, it follows a 'Remember After Discovery' principle, focusing on capturing non-obvious solutions, conventions, and decisions rather than repetitive command history.

How does this help with context window limits?

By externalizing key project insights to files, Claude can use grep and cat to retrieve exactly what it needs for the current task, bypassing the need to keep everything in the immediate context window.

Where is the agent memory stored?

Knowledge is stored locally in the project's memory directory within ~/.claude/projects/, ensuring data remains private and persists across different sessions.

Memory Protocol

Name: Memory Protocol
Author: jwilger

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Productivity & Workflow

Implements a systematic file-based knowledge accumulation and retrieval system to prevent redundant work and retain project-specific insights.

The Memory Protocol skill establishes a robust framework for Claude to learn from its interactions within a project by enforcing a 'Recall Before Act' pattern. It ensures that previous solutions, architectural decisions, and project conventions are searched before starting new tasks, preventing the agent from rediscovering known bugs or deviating from established patterns. By building a persistent institutional memory that survives session restarts, this skill enables compound productivity gains and ensures high-quality, consistent output across long-running development cycles.

Key Features

01Project-specific convention tracking for consistent code generation

02Structured knowledge graph mapping to link related technical concepts

03Recall-Before-Act search pattern to leverage existing solutions

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05Automatic capture of non-obvious insights and architectural rationale

06Local file-based persistence via standard shell tool integration

Use Cases

01Preventing the re-debugging of complex, environment-specific errors

02Maintaining architectural consistency in large codebases with unique conventions

03Building an institutional knowledge base that survives context window truncation

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add jwilger/claude-code-plugins memory-protocol

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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