bm-setup SKILL.md skillA
bm-setup 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-setup@git:20261029.bf46a43Pins git:20261029.bf46a43 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- basicmachines-co/basic-memory
- Path
plugins/claude-code/skills/bm-setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261029.bf46a43, committed Oct 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 16,274 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4,501
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Set up the Basic Memory plugin for this project — a short guided interview that configures the project mapping, seeds note schemas, learns or suggests placement conventions, and enables capture reflexes. Use when the user runs /basic-memory:bm-setup, says "set up basic memory", or asks to configure/bootstrap the plugin.
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
# Basic Memory setup Run a short, adaptive interview (~2-3 minutes) and then write the configuration. Be conversational and **skip questions whose answer is already obvious** from context (e.g. if `bm_project(command="list")` shows a single local project and no cloud workspaces, don't ask about cloud/teams — just confirm). Suggest a sensible default for every question so the user can accept with one word. Don't do any writes until the interview is done and you've confirmed the plan. ## Prerequisite check First confirm the **Basic Memory MCP server is connected** — call `bm_project(command="list")`. If that tool isn't available or errors, Basic Memory isn't wired into Claude Code yet. **Stop and walk the user through it first** (everything below depends on it): 1. Install it: `uv tool install basic-memory --prerelease=allow` (or `pip install basic-memory`), a version exposing the 1.0 `bm_*` tools. Keep `--prerelease=allow` with uv: published releases pin a FastMCP pre-release, and without the flag uv silently installs an older Basic Memory release. 2. Connect it: `claude mcp add basic-memory -- uvx --prerelease=allow basic-memory mcp`, …
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How to install
mdr add basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-setup@sha256:a2c8b20c8ad9f030The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.bf46a43, 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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| git:20261027.1cc25be | 2026-10-27 | 1cc25be | 16,033 B | A | view · diff |
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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_plwpegpzi6wfsr74 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-setup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2c8b20c8ad9f030fcb0782f643c6336a6b88b6fcc679486abf36a3d853e1277
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