vault-capture SKILL.md skillA

vault-capture from jayantak/vaultmem is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jayantak/vaultmem/vault-capture@git:20260727.6063466

Pins git:20260727.6063466 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jayantak/vaultmem
Path
skills/vault-capture/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260727.6063466, committed Jul 27, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 24, 2026
Size
21,283 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Write durable knowledge into the Obsidian vault. Trigger when something worth documenting just happened — a root cause, architecture decision, incident, meeting, milestone, people context, reusable pattern — on "make a note", on a subagent spawned to capture session work, and on repo onboarding ("remember this project").

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

<!-- CANONICAL SOURCE: this repo (jayantak/vaultmem). The dotfiles copy under agents-source/skills/ is synced FROM here — edit this file, not that one. -->

# vault-capture — write it down so the next session doesn't re-derive it

The write side of the vault. Finding what's already there is `vault-recall`;
keeping the vault healthy and deciding what's *missing* is `vault-curate`;
per-thread working state is `session`.

## Picking the vault

Never hardcode a vault path or id. `vaultmem vaults` prints the registry (id,
root, sessions root, MOC, roles, routing rules); `vaultmem which` guesses the one
that routes for the current repo/cwd. Work content → the work vault.
Personal/generalizable learning → the personal vault. **Ambiguous → state your
inference and confirm before writing the first note**, so a personal project
never lands in the work vault or vice-versa.

## Workflow B: Capture

Triggered when something worth documenting happens — debug root cause,
architecture decision, incident response, meeting recap, project milestone,
tool/infra setup, people context, generalizable learning, or explicit "make a
note".

1. **Pick the vault** (above).
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jayantak/vaultmem/vault-capture@sha256:87d0973bd40410ec

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260727.6063466, 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_hivw6iy6bqg56mbj.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hivw6iy6bqg56mbj)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 24, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026, about one every 3 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260727.6063466 latest2026-07-27 6063466 21,283 BA view · diff
git:20260724.ef729e32026-07-24 ef729e3 23,718 BA 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 (21283 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

jayantak/vaultmem · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hivw6iy6bqg56mbj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jayantak/vaultmem/vault-capture
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/87d0973bd40410eca695912714954a1ed4946727915f326c66ee471115414ac6

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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