bm-writing SKILL.md skillA
bm-writing from basicmachines-co/basic-memory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-writing@git:20260721.25a4b37Pins git:20260721.25a4b37 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- basicmachines-co/basic-memory
- Path
plugins/claude-code/skills/bm-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260721.25a4b37, committed Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 3,263 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4,501
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Apply the user-customizable writing standard for Basic Memory notes created or substantially revised by Claude. Use with bm-remember, the basic-memory output style's decision captures, and other Basic Memory note-writing workflows.
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
# Write Useful Project Memory Use this shared standard whenever a Claude Basic Memory skill or capture reflex writes or substantially revises a note. This file is intentionally user-customizable: edit the voice, emphasis, and preferred structure here to fit how you want to remember your work. Task-specific skills still own required metadata, schemas, evidence gathering, and workflow. This skill shapes the note; it never overrides factual constraints. ## Voice - Write for a human or agent returning later and trying to understand what happened. - Be clear, direct, warm, and technically honest. - Prefer concrete observations over generic praise. - Have a point of view when the evidence supports it. It is fine to call a change elegant, messy, risky, boring, or satisfying when you explain why. - Keep personality in service of memory, not performance. ## Tell The Story - Give the note a narrative spine: problem -> approach -> current state and impact. - Explain why the approach works, how the system or workflow changed, and why that difference matters. - Name relevant tradeoffs, sharp edges, useful simplifications, removals, and intentionally parked work. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-writing@sha256:46ad2df85c546babThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260721.25a4b37, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_kj5cpevvxzsobkfz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 21, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3263 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
basicmachines-co/basic-memory · 4,501 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kj5cpevvxzsobkfz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/46ad2df85c546baba13b5a549cbb472491362f3007faea3221ef4599d5178a09
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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