tree-ring-memory SKILL.md skillA

tree-ring-memory from terminallylazy/tree-ring-memory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add terminallylazy/tree-ring-memory/tree-ring-memory@v0.15.11

Pins v0.15.11 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
terminallylazy/tree-ring-memory
Path
plugins/tree-ring-memory/skills/tree-ring-memory/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v0.15.11, committed Sep 15, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 25, 2026
Size
26,379 bytes
Repository stars
22
License
MIT

Guides AI agents in using Tree Ring Memory for durable recall, project decisions, user preferences, warnings, future seeds, privacy-safe memory capture, and lifecycle-aware forgetting.

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

# Tree Ring Memory

Use Tree Ring Memory as a lifecycle-aware memory layer, not as a transcript dump.

Tree Ring Memory preserves meaningful agent learning like tree rings:

- fresh work stays detailed
- older learning compresses into stable rings
- important warnings remain visible as scars
- durable truths become heartwood
- speculative future work stays as seeds
- sensitive data is blocked, redacted, or kept out by default

## Runtime Bootstrap And Updates

Resolve the actual project root before running Tree Ring. Never initialize a
plugin cache, downloaded package directory, home directory, or arbitrary
working directory by accident.

1. If `<project-root>/.tree-ring/bin/tree-ring` exists, prefer that binary for
   this project. Otherwise check `command -v tree-ring` and run
   `tree-ring --version`.
2. Read existing `<project-root>/.tree-ring/SKILL.md` and `CLI.md` when present.
   Lifecycle hooks need CLI 0.15.6 or newer; older packages may omit
   automatic hooks. Current Codex packages include them, including the public upload. Use `integrations status --verbose` to inspect the last
   recall count and query class, and distinguish no receipt from zero results.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add terminallylazy/tree-ring-memory/tree-ring-memory@sha256:5651600c18fad93e

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.15.11, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_gv63sirmqoc56oqv.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gv63sirmqoc56oqv)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 4 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.15.11 latest2026-09-15 b7b5686 26,379 BA view · diff
v0.15.12026-09-08 7d7e943 25,623 BA view · diff
v0.15.12026-09-08 c807d3f 25,569 BA view · diff
v0.15.12026-08-28 ca17b0e 25,333 BA view · diff
v0.15.12026-08-25 b93775e 23,866 BA view · diff
v0.15.02026-08-25 85fa8f8 23,502 BB view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (26379 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 link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

terminallylazy/tree-ring-memory · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gv63sirmqoc56oqv
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=terminallylazy/tree-ring-memory/tree-ring-memory
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5651600c18fad93e40623511ef6f1eee74570f66499192fd708157f7a40df959

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.

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