# Stow

Sweep the session for uncaptured durable knowledge and unfiled or wrong open work...

- Repository: https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate (8480 stars)
- Category: Business
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill stow -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill stow -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill stow -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill stow -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Sweep the session for uncaptured durable knowledge and unfiled or wrong open work records, and curate startup memory. Use when the captain invokes /stow (e.g. "/stow", "stow what you've learned"), before a session reset or context compaction, or periodically to keep operational memory current.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

<!-- maintainers: this is the firstmate-internal skill. The public, installer-facing counterpart lives at skills/stow/SKILL.md - deliberately a separate file with no shared code or environment branching. Keep them independent. -->

# stow

Sweep this session for durable knowledge and open-work record state that exist only in conversation, then leave the next session with a compact current operating map rather than an accumulating journal.
Memory entries are tiered and decay between passes, and stale material retires to a cold archive instead of being deleted.
This skill writes only through the existing Firstmate ownership and write boundaries.

## Memory tiers and entry markers

Markers are compact trailing HTML comments, deliberately cheap because marker bytes are counted content:

The rest: https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/stow/SKILL.md