bm-decide SKILL.md skillA
bm-decide 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-decide@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-decide/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261024.3d433fd, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 2,063 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4,501
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Capture a durable engineering decision in Basic Memory with rationale, alternatives, consequences, and affected work. Use when the user makes or asks to record a real choice — "let's go with X", "record this decision", or runs /basic-memory:bm-decide.
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
# Capture A Decision
Use this when the user makes or asks to record a durable choice. A decision is a
choice with rationale and consequences, not a casual preference. This is the
deliberate version of the basic-memory output style's decision-capture reflex —
it works whether or not that style is enabled.
## 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:
- write to `primaryProject` when set (pass it as `project`, including
when it is an `external_id` UUID)
- follow `placementConventions` for the directory when they are specific
- otherwise use `decisions`
Apply the `bm-writing` skill before drafting the note.
2. Clarify only if the choice itself is ambiguous. Do not ask for every field if
the conversation already contains the rationale.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-decide@sha256:8150914ecd31863cThe 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rfbqhi7gnf62mb6u)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 21, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 48 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261024.3d433fd latest | 2026-10-24 | 3d433fd | 2,063 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260904.9408035 | 2026-09-04 | 9408035 | 2,052 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.cee64a1 | 2026-07-21 | cee64a1 | 1,838 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 (2063 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_rfbqhi7gnf62mb6u GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-decide GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8150914ecd31863c9442a9d38f04286eee3ecd5ca85e5809108f9ec0a2ac5583
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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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