memory-ingest — skill

What memory-ingest does

The skill walks unstructured text through a fixed sequence. It parses the format, date and participants, then pulls out entities: people, organizations, topics, action items. Each one gets searched in Basic Memory under several query variations — full name, last name, acronym. Matches are linked with [[wiki-link]]; anything new is proposed for creation.

Nothing is written before you see the list. The skill shows what already exists in memory and what it wants to add, with a line of context per entity, then waits for approval — all at once, one by one, or skip. The source text is kept verbatim, with categorized observations such as opportunity, decision or next_step sitting alongside it.

Web research on new entities is optional and can be skipped when the material already carries enough context. You need Basic Memory itself, with its search_notes and write_note tools — without it there is nothing to search and nowhere to write. Worth checking that the Basic Memory MCP server is connected before you install.