Agent Skills
AI assistants are powerful, but they don't automatically know the best way to organize your notes. Agent skills are ready-made instructions that teach your AI how to write well-structured notes, track tasks, and more.
Basic Memory is a knowledge base that you and your AI share. Skills make the AI better at using it — so your notes are more consistent, your tasks are tracked reliably, and your conversations produce lasting value.
Skill highlights
| Skill | What it does for you |
|---|---|
| memory-notes | Your AI writes well-structured notes automatically — with consistent formatting, links between notes, and proper metadata |
| memory-tasks | Track tasks in notes that survive across conversations — your AI picks up where you left off |
| memory-continue | Resume prior work — your AI rebuilds context from the knowledge graph |
| memory-reflect | Your AI reviews conversations and saves the important parts as notes |
…plus skills for capture, curation, schemas, defrag, metadata search, research, and more — see the full list on the Agent Skills guide.
Quick Install
npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory/skills
Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI tools that support markdown-based skill files. Installation options, per-agent targeting, and usage examples are on the Agent Skills guide.