bm-status SKILL.md skillA

bm-status from basicmachines-co/basic-memory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-status@git:20261024.3d433fd

Pins 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-status/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261024.3d433fd, committed Oct 24, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 21, 2026
Size
5,123 bytes
Repository stars
4,501
License
AGPL-3.0

Show the Basic Memory plugin's current state for this project — active project, capture folders, output style, recent session checkpoints, and whether Basic Memory is reachable.

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 status

Report the plugin's current state for this project, then present a concise summary.
This is a quick diagnostic — gather the facts and lay them out; don't over-investigate.

When no project is pinned, discover projects with `bm_project(command="list")`
and pass the selected project's external ID as `project` on note/search calls.
With several addressable projects, these calls require an explicit scope even
when a default is configured.

## Gather

1. **CLI reachable?** Run `basic-memory --version`, then `bm --version`, then
   `uvx --prerelease=allow basic-memory --version`. If no launcher resolves, report the CLI status as
   unavailable and continue with MCP/config checks. The plugin hooks can still use
   their uv-managed environment.

2. **Configuration.** Read the `basicMemory` block with the hooks' precedence.
   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
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-status@sha256:e482fd7fab502f8d

The 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_shirobpbgeveu3dh.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_shirobpbgeveu3dh)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 21, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 19 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261024.3d433fd latest2026-10-24 3d433fd 5,123 BA view · diff
git:20260904.94080352026-09-04 9408035 4,901 BA view · diff
git:20260828.8bfb0ac2026-08-28 8bfb0ac 4,678 BA view · diff
git:20260727.040b26c2026-07-27 040b26c 4,659 BA view · diff
git:20260722.c28159d2026-07-22 c28159d 4,789 BA view · diff
git:20260721.25a4b372026-07-21 25a4b37 4,705 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5123 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

GitHub

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_shirobpbgeveu3dh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=basicmachines-co/basic-memory/bm-status
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e482fd7fab502f8d716fc3108298f7a8c167d39b16e71ceb084778a00bc7b571

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