cortex-debug-memory SKILL.md skillA
cortex-debug-memory from cdeust/cortex is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cdeust/cortex/cortex-debug-memory@git:20260329.d5a1a6ePins git:20260329.d5a1a6e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cdeust/cortex
- Path
skills/cortex-debug-memory/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260329.d5a1a6e, committed Mar 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 27, 2026
- Size
- 3,575 bytes
- Repository stars
- 76
- License
- MIT
Debug and fix memory system issues — validate memories, rate quality, manage protection, forget bad memories, and restore from checkpoints. Use when the user says 'fix memory', 'bad memory', 'wrong memory', 'delete this', 'protect this', 'this memory is wrong', 'memory quality', 'rate this memory', 'restore checkpoint', 'undo', or when memories are returning incorrect or stale results.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Debug Memory — Fix, Rate, Protect, and Restore
## Keywords
debug, fix, bad memory, wrong, delete, forget, protect, rate, quality, restore, checkpoint, undo, stale, incorrect, mark useful, mark not useful, anchor, unprotect
## Overview
Tools for maintaining memory quality — rate memories as useful or not, protect critical ones from decay, forget incorrect ones, validate against the filesystem, and restore from checkpoints when things go wrong.
**Use this skill when:** Recall returns wrong results, memories are stale, you need to undo changes, or you want to improve retrieval quality through feedback.
## Workflow
### Fix Bad Memories
**Soft delete** (sets heat to 0, memory still exists but won't surface):
```
cortex:forget({
"memory_id": <id>,
"hard": false
})
```
**Hard delete** (permanent removal):
```
cortex:forget({
"memory_id": <id>,
"hard": true
})
```
Protected memories require `"force": true` to delete.
### Rate Memory Quality
Provide feedback to train the metamemory confidence model:
```
cortex:rate_memory({
"memory_id": <id>,
"useful": true
})
```
Or mark as not useful:
```
cortex:rate_memory({
"memory_id": <id>,
"useful": false,
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cdeust/cortex/cortex-debug-memory@sha256:0405a094c969fbc4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260329.d5a1a6e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 27, 2026 and Mar 29, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20260329.d5a1a6e latest | 2026-03-29 | d5a1a6e | 3,575 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260327.890ae58 | 2026-03-27 | 890ae58 | 3,565 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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Source
cdeust/cortex · 76 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7clzh5dmtazpd66n GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/cortex/cortex-debug-memory GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0405a094c969fbc4d9374d89e6886b79e00fcdddf3126bb1be2262aecf8665bb
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