Use when reviewing Basic Machines code for house style, architecture risk, pre-merge hardening, or whether a change fits basic-memory/basic-memory-cloud conventions.
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 Machines Review
Use this skill for repo-local review passes where ordinary code review needs Basic Machines
house style and architecture judgment. Report findings only; do not edit code unless the user
asks you to fix specific findings.
## Scope
Review the current diff or named files against:
- The repo's `AGENTS.md` / `CLAUDE.md`
- `docs/ENGINEERING_STYLE.md`
- The touched code paths and tests
Apply only the guidance for the active repo. In `basic-memory`, prioritize local-first
file/database/MCP boundaries. In `basic-memory-cloud`, prioritize tenant/workspace isolation,
cloud worker behavior, and web-v2 state/runtime boundaries.
## Review Rubric
Report only concrete, falsifiable risks:
- **Cognitive load:** Is the change harder to understand than the problem requires?
- **Change propagation:** Will one product change force edits across unrelated layers?
- **Knowledge duplication:** Is the same rule encoded in multiple places that can drift?
- **Accidental complexity:** Did the change add abstractions, fallbacks, or state without need?
- **Dependency direction:** Are API/MCP/CLI, services, repositories, and UI stores respecting
their intended boundaries?
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260609.03ba268, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qr5jbk44guec7r2c
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=basicmachines-co/basic-memory/code-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b57ca19f2ddb40387bc0aad5a4e39045083163a7089bac2af62a6cc286183a0e
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