# remember

Saves session state to memory.md at the end of a session and restores it at the start of the next one. Useful when your agent keeps starting from a blank slate.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 944 installs · ★ 235
- Author: jsmastery-pro
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/remember/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-09
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/jsmastery-pro-remember

## What it does

The skill targets the obvious gap in agent work: no memory between sessions. You run `/remember save` when you stop, and the agent pulls only what a fresh context needs to continue. What was built, which decisions are locked in, what broke, where to start next. Not a transcript — the working state.

At the start of a new session `/remember restore` reads `memory.md` from the project root and also picks up context files such as `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `.cursorrules` or `.github/copilot-instructions.md`. Only those, no repo-wide scan. The agent then summarises what it restored and waits for your confirmation before touching anything.

A hard security boundary sits inside: the skill must not persist secrets. Keys, tokens, passwords, cookies and connection strings stay out of `memory.md` — a placeholder like `[REDACTED_API_KEY]` goes in instead. If you are unsure whether a value is sensitive, it counts as sensitive. When `memory.md` already exists, the skill shows a one-line summary of the old file and asks before overwriting.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill --skill remember -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/remember/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/remember/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill --skill remember -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/remember/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill --skill remember -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/remember/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill remember
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/remember/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill --skill remember -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill --path skills/remember
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/remember/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill --skill remember -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/jsm-agent-skill/tree/HEAD/skills/remember/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- restore working context after closing a session
- record architectural decisions before wrapping up for the day
- avoid re-solving a problem that already took time
- hand a project to another session without losing details
- check that no tokens or keys leaked into saved memory

## Example prompts
- /remember save
- /remember restore
- /remember

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: remember
description: Save what matters at the end of a session so the next session picks up exactly where you left off. Or restore context at the start of a new session so nothing is lost between them.
---

AI has no memory between sessions. Every new session starts blank. This skill fixes that.

Run it at the end of a session to save. Run it at the start of a new session to restore. That is all it does — but done consistently, it means nothing ever gets lost.

## Security Boundary

This skill must never persist secrets. If any sensitive value appears in the conversation or context, do not copy it to `memory.md`.

Sensitive data includes (non-exhaustive):

- API keys, access tokens, refresh tokens, session tokens
- Passwords, passphrases, one-time codes, private keys, certificates
- Cookies, auth headers, connection strings, webhook secrets
- Any credential-like value or secret-looking string

If a detail is useful but sensitive, store a redacted placeholder instead (for example: `[REDACTED_API_KEY]`).
If unsure whether something is sensitive, treat it as sensitive and omit or redact it.

## How to Invoke

**To save at end of session:**

```
/remember save
```

**To restore at start of new session:**

```
/remember restore
```

If the developer just runs `/remember` without specifying — ask them which one they need.

---

## Save Mode

When the developer runs `/remember save`:

### What to capture

Review the current conversation to extract only what a developer would genuinely need to continue this work in a completely fresh context. Do not include sensitive data such as credentials, API keys, or tokens in the saved memory. Not a transcript. Not a summary of everything that happened. The essential state.

Think like someone handing off a project to a colleague who is equally skilled but knows nothing about what happened today. What would they need to know to continue without losing anything?

Capture:

**What was built** — specific files created or modified, features completed, components added. Be precise. Not "built the auth flow" — "created app/(auth)/login/page.tsx, app/(auth)/callback/page.tsx, and middleware.ts. OAuth with Google and GitHub working end to end."

**Decisions made** — choices that would be hard to reverse or that future work depends on. Not implementation details — architectural choices. "Chose to use server-side data fetching over client-side — avoids loading states and keeps sensitive logic off the client."

**Problems solved** — any issue that took time to figure out. So the next session does not solve the same problem twice. "Third party auth callback requires a trailing slash in the redirect URL — fixed in the callback handler."

**Current state** — exactly where things stand right now. What works, what is partial, what is known to be broken.
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