memory-forgetting-policy SKILL.md skillA
memory-forgetting-policy from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/memory-forgetting-policy@git:20260728.fe84bd4Pins git:20260728.fe84bd4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/ai-memory-rag/memory-forgetting-policy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fe84bd4, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 1,992 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Decide what an AI system forgets and when, through expiry, decay, and explicit deletion, so memory stays current and lawful. Use when memory accumulates indefinitely or a user asks to be forgotten.
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 forgetting policy Systems that never forget become wrong: they act on circumstances that changed years ago and hold data long past any justification. Forgetting is a designed capability rather than an absence of retention. ## Method 1. **Give every memory type a lifetime.** Preferences may persist, project context should not outlive the project, and transient observations expire quickly. 2. **Decay by relevance as well as age.** A fact never retrieved and never confirmed is a candidate for removal regardless of how recently it was written. 3. **Make explicit deletion complete and immediate.** A user asking to forget something must see it removed from every store including derived summaries and indexes (see right-to-erasure). 4. **Distinguish forgetting from suppression.** Hiding a memory while retaining it is not deletion, and the difference matters legally as well as ethically. 5. **Handle consolidated memories carefully.** A fact merged into an abstraction cannot be deleted by removing the source record, which makes provenance essential (see memory-consolidation). 6. **Confirm what was forgotten.** Users need to know the request took …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/memory-forgetting-policy@sha256:f91a9e3c49f30395The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fe84bd4, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qla5nju7ru7v7e7f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/memory-forgetting-policy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f91a9e3c49f303956027c535de9651d6db38054324aacc9d55e9f123a6fd17ca
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.