engram SKILL.md skillB

engram from techtheist/engram is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add techtheist/engram/engram@git:20261031.55344ef

Pins git:20261031.55344ef in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
techtheist/engram
Path
skills/engram/aggressive/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
14
Latest version
git:20261031.55344ef, committed Oct 31, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 22, 2026
Size
12,262 bytes
Repository stars
36
License
MIT

Read and write the project's durable reasoning memory (decisions, principles, cautions, problems, insights) through the Engram MCP tools. Recall relevant memory before non-trivial work; capture decisions and knowledge silently at natural stopping points; keep the graph honest (judge suspects, close answered problems, repair drifted refs). Aggressive variant — maximum capture.

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

# Engram — project memory (Aggressive)

Engram is a local, user-owned graph of *why this project is the way it is*: decisions and their reasons, gotchas, problems and their fixes, conventions. Not code structure — the code holds that. The user sees every node in the pane, so quality and honest edges matter more than volume: a noisy graph stops being trusted, and an untrusted graph stops being read.

**Aggressive: Engram is the spine of the project's decision history.** Every real decision, realization and gotcha belongs in the graph; err on the side of writing — decay prunes episodic scratch nobody re-confirms. Don't mirror Claude Code's own memory (CLAUDE.md, auto-memory): project reasoning goes to Engram, user preferences and workflow stay there.

## Recall

- **Session start:** read the brief. If the session opened with an injected "# Engram brief", that IS it; otherwise call `brief` once. Its first line names the graph — if that is not this workspace, call `brief(project: "<workspace absolute path>")`.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add techtheist/engram/engram@sha256:000aa81c370923ed

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.55344ef, 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 14 versions of this file, between Aug 22, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:8787)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12262 bytes)
  • 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
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

techtheist/engram · 36 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cjhd4ce6f7w47phw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=techtheist/engram/engram
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/000aa81c370923ed2240e1886abe945295128d691536ff568b1fa1de87054f77

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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