# re0-memo

Turns a finished, failed or disappointing work cycle into lessons, anti-patterns and quality gates the next pass can actually use.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1200 installs · ★ 1342
- Author: LilMGenius
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/coil/re0-memo/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/re0-memo

## What it does

The skill fires when the artifact is done, broken or underwhelming and the useful output is what the next pass must learn. It reads the original objective, the final artifact, QA evidence, user complaints and local planning notes, then separates working assets from misleading progress: contracts, schemas, tests and services against panels, scaffolds and abstractions that only looked productive.

Then it generalizes. When feedback arrives as a pile of specific complaints, they get clustered upward into the shared pattern first, and the root cause is what gets recorded as the lesson — the specifics sit under it as evidence. Every failure is named as an anti-pattern, repeated ones become hard gates for the next cycle, and vague user direction turns into architecture vocabulary a fresh agent can read.

Output is local docs: a re0-memo with the lessons and a plan holding next-cycle contracts, gates and vocabulary. The skill explicitly forbids defending the artifact or writing a changelog instead of lessons. The final check is blunt: a from-scratch agent should tell what to preserve, what to discard and what to test first without reading the whole old session. Provenance stays local, so shipped artifacts don't narrate their scars.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-memo -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/re0-memo/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/re0-memo/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-memo -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/re0-memo/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-memo -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/re0-memo/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install LilMGenius/paperthin re0-memo
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/re0-memo/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-memo -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin --path skills/coil/re0-memo
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/re0-memo/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-memo -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/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/coil/re0-memo/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pull durable lessons out of a failed pass instead of defending the artifact
- collapse many user complaints into one root pattern
- turn repeated failures into gates for the next cycle
- sort reusable contracts and tests from scaffolds that only looked like work
- translate vague client direction into architecture vocabulary

## Example prompts
- Run re0-memo on this cycle: what to keep, what to drop, which gates to set for the next pass
- Cluster the demo complaints into one pattern and write the anti-pattern with its gate
- Refresh the re0-memo and the plan for the next cycle from the QA results

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: re0-memo
description: "Turn a finished, failed, or disappointing work cycle into portable lessons, anti-patterns, quality gates, and next-cycle vocabulary. Use after a build, QA pass, demo, user complaint, or abandoned attempt when the useful output is what the next pass must learn rather than the code itself."
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Turn a completed cycle into lessons the next cycle can actually use.

## Goal

`re0-memo` extracts durable learning from a work cycle without defending the artifact that produced it. A cycle can run, pass tests, and still be the wrong thing. The output is not a changelog or therapy note: it is a local, evidence-backed record of what worked, what misled the build, and what gate the next pass must clear.

Use `re0-memo` when the artifact is done, failed, disappointing, or ambiguous enough that the next agent needs the cycle's lessons more than its momentum.

## Workflow

1. Read the original objective, final artifact, QA evidence, user complaints, and any local planning notes.
2. Separate working assets from misleading progress: contracts, schemas, tests, services, vocabulary, and examples that earned reuse vs. UI, panels, scaffolds, or abstractions that only looked productive.
3. Generalize before recording: when feedback arrives as many specific complaints, cluster them upward into the shared pattern before writing anything down — many specifics against many items usually share one root gap. Record the root and its pattern family as the lesson; keep the specifics under it as evidence, not as lessons themselves.
4. Name each failure as an anti-pattern, not a mood.
5. Convert repeated or high-impact failures into quality gates for the next pass.
6. Convert vague user direction into architecture vocabulary a fresh agent can use.
7. Write or refresh local docs for the cycle: a re0-memo for lessons and a plan for next-cycle contracts, gates, and vocabulary.
8. Verify that a from-scratch agent could avoid the same failure from those docs alone.

## Rules

- Do not defend the artifact. If it missed the product, say what missed.
- Do not write a changelog. File lists and effort summaries are not lessons.
- Do not transcribe a specific complaint as a lesson. A lesson that only fixes the reported case keeps the system human-in-the-loop: the same class of failure returns anywhere a person didn't point. Escalate every specific to the pattern that catches its whole class — the reporter's exact words are evidence, not the gate.
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