memory-design SKILL.md skillA
memory-design from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/memory-design@git:20260919.a0d4f55Pins git:20260919.a0d4f55 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher
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skills/ai/memory-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260919.a0d4f55, committed Sep 19, 2026
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- 58
- License
- MIT
Decide what an agent should remember, which layer holds it, who it is scoped to, and how a stale or contradicted memory is detected and retired. Use when an agent forgets something across sessions, when a memory or persistent-context feature is being designed, or when stored memories have grown noisy, wrong, or are leaking between users. Not for retrieval over a document corpus, not for prompt or context-window packing, and not for conversation transcript storage.
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
# Memory design Memory is the only part of an agent that keeps being wrong after you stop looking. A retrieval bug shows up in the next answer; a stale memory sits there being quietly confident for months. Design the retirement path before the write path. ## When this fires An agent needs a fact to survive past the current context — across turns, tasks or sessions — or an existing memory store has grown noisy, contradictory, or is surfacing one subject's data to another. It does not fire for retrieval over a document corpus (that is retrieval-rag), and not for keeping a transcript: a transcript is a log, not memory. ## Procedure 1. **Name the repeat failure first.** What did the agent forget, how often, and what did it cost — a re-asked question, a redone decision, a wrong assumption. Memory added without a named repeat failure is speculative storage, and storage you cannot justify is storage you will not prune. 2. **Classify what is actually worth keeping**, because the class decides everything after it: - *stable facts and preferences* — this user's stack, conventions, how they want to be addressed …
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How to install
mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/memory-design@sha256:c4713e0e685cc728The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.a0d4f55, 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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Source
nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher · 58 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jw4uafrtwdwjcbeo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/memory-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c4713e0e685cc7288f5283669b40e34403e55107fcd8180dfbfe56afe5d301b1
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