bm-orient SKILL.md skillA
bm-orient 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-orient@git:20261024.3d433fdPins git:20261024.3d433fd 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-orient/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261024.3d433fd, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 3,176 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4,501
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Orient Claude from Basic Memory before substantial repo work by reading active tasks, open decisions, recent checkpoints, and repo conventions. Use when resuming old work or when the user asks where things stand.
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
# Orient From Basic Memory Use this before substantial work in a repo, before resuming an old thread, or when the user asks where things stand. The SessionStart hook already briefs the start of a session; this is the deliberate mid-session version with deeper reads. ## Steps 1. Resolve config: read the `basicMemory` block with the same precedence the hooks use. For the user-level base, append `settings.json` to the literal value of `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` when that environment variable is present; do not trim it, expand `~`, or treat an empty value as unset. Use `~/.claude/settings.json` only when the variable is absent. Then the project's `.claude/settings.json` and `.claude/settings.local.json` override it per key. Use `primaryProject`, `secondaryProjects`, `recallTimeframe`, `sessionProfile`, `repository`, and `placementConventions`. If no config is present, continue against the default Basic Memory project and mention that setup has not been run. Scope queries to `primaryProject` by passing it as `project`, including when it is an `external_id` UUID. 2. Query the primary project with `bm_search`: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-orient@sha256:cc8da09a0d4ffbdcThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.3d433fd, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 21, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 32 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261024.3d433fd latest | 2026-10-24 | 3d433fd | 3,176 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260904.9408035 | 2026-09-04 | 9408035 | 3,207 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.c28159d | 2026-07-22 | c28159d | 2,990 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.cee64a1 | 2026-07-21 | cee64a1 | 2,921 B | A | view |
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 (3176 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_pzixhp3xdmh4h54m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-orient GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cc8da09a0d4ffbdcb3049cc757a359bf2c68fa78d0bb09e720affc38adb10e9c
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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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