# Create Memory Modes

Creates custom claude-mem modes with observation types, tags and optional alerts.

- Repository: https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem (109099 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add thedotmack/claude-mem --skill mode-creator -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add thedotmack/claude-mem --skill mode-creator -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add thedotmack/claude-mem --skill mode-creator -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add thedotmack/claude-mem --skill mode-creator -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add thedotmack/claude-mem`

## Description

Interactively create, install, activate, and verify custom claude-mem modes, including domain-specific observation types, concept tags, optional Telegram alerts, bot setup, worker restart, and startup-context verification. Use this whenever someone asks to customize what claude-mem remembers, create or change a mode, track domain-specific notes, add observation types or tags, or send Telegram notifications for particular memories, even if they do not use the word "mode.

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

# Mode Creator

Create a useful note-taking system, not merely a valid JSON file. Interview the user, propose a small taxonomy, obtain approval, install it durably, configure optional alerts, restart the worker, and prove the active mode appears in startup context.

## Ground rules

- Use the available interactive question tool (`AskUserQuestion`, `request_user_input`, or equivalent) for the interview. Ask in small batches and wait for each response.
- Explain observation types as mutually exclusive kinds of notes and concepts as reusable tags. Avoid jargon unless the user uses it first.
- Inspect existing bundled and user modes before inventing a new one. Reuse or remix a close match when that serves the user better.
- Do not edit a plugin cache or bundled mode. Install custom files under the resolved claude-mem data directory's `modes/` folder.
- Do not expose a Telegram token in chat, command arguments, logs, or tool output. Treat it like a password.
- Preserve unrelated settings and existing Telegram triggers. The helpers make timestamped backups and merge requested triggers.
- Custom modes are supported by the local worker runtime. If `CLAUDE_MEM_RUNTIME` is `server`, explain that this workflow cannot safely install a per-user mode into the shared server and stop before mutation.
- Existing observations keep their original types. The new mode applies to future observation generation.

## 1. Open with the purpose

Begin with this message inside the first interactive question:

> Custom modes let you take notes for whatever you're working on. If you're a law student, you may want to write down every time a case establishes a rule, a professor flags an exam trap, or doctrines conflict. If you're an architect, you may want to capture every design decision, code constraint, client preference, or site discovery. What are you working on?

Do not start by asking for a mode name or JSON fields. Learn the work first.

If the answer is code-related, say:

The rest: https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem/blob/HEAD/plugin/skills/mode-creator/SKILL.md