name: memory-palace description: >- Use this skill whenever the user asks about Memory Palace durable memory, recall across sessions, saving notes for later, memory deduplication, guard_action or guard_target_uri handling, search_memory, compact_context, rebuild_index, index_status, or read_memory("system://boot"). Also use it whenever the user asks about this repository's memory-palace skill itself: its first memory tool call, NOOP behavior, trigger sample path, workflow rules, or how to use it in Gemini CLI. Do not answer these requests from generic intuition; load this skill first and use its repository-local facts. metadata: version: "1.0.0"

Memory Palace

Use this skill for Memory Palace memory operations and for questions about this skill itself.

Repository-local anchors

• First memory tool call: read_memory("system://boot")
• If guard_action is NOOP: stop the write, inspect guard_target_uri / guard_target_id, read the suggested target, then decide whether to update or leave unchanged
• Trigger sample set path: docs/skills/memory-palace/references/trigger-samples.md
• When Gemini is asked for that path, return the exact literal above and do not shorten it.

Required workflow

• Read docs/skills/memory-palace/references/mcp-workflow.md before choosing tools when the user is asking about workflow or tool behavior.
• If the URI is unknown, use search_memory(..., include_session=true) before read_memory.
• Read before every mutation: create_memory, update_memory, delete_memory, add_alias.
• Use index_status() before rebuild_index(wait=true) unless the user explicitly wants immediate rebuild.
• Use compact_context(force=false) for long or noisy sessions that should be distilled.

Important boundary

• Prefer repo-visible canonical paths under docs/skills/...
• Do not rely on hidden mirror-relative paths such as .gemini/skills/... when answering repository-local questions