# Memory

Deliberately search, add to, or curate your long-term memory with the `memory` tool, ...

- Repository: https://github.com/yc-software/qm (15597 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add yc-software/qm --skill memory -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add yc-software/qm --skill memory -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add yc-software/qm --skill memory -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add yc-software/qm --skill memory -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Deliberately search, add to, or curate your long-term memory with the `memory` tool, beyond the automatic recall/capture every turn already does. Use when asked who someone is or what they're working on, when you learn a durable fact worth keeping now, or when your notebook holds stale or wrong entries you should clean up.

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

# memory, search, write, and curate what you remember

Everything here goes through the typed `memory` tool. Memory is NOT a file: writing
`memory/MEMORY.md` with `files` action `write` or shell commands lands on your computer's disk and is
silently lost, the tool is the one real path.

Every turn already auto-recalls a bounded selection from your notebooks into "## What you remember" and
auto-extracts facts after you reply. This skill is for what the automatic path misses:

The rest: https://github.com/yc-software/qm/blob/HEAD/skills-seed/memory/SKILL.md