What do I need to use Build My Memory File?

The scope; What you keep re-explaining; Your patterns; Your preferences.

Is Build My Memory File free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Build My Memory File

Q: How do I know the Build My Memory File output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Draws content out through questions, not a blank template; Captures decision rules, patterns, and past-failure lessons; Written as concrete, AI-usable statements; Explicitly excludes and refuses sensitive/personal data.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-focus

Interview you into a durable personal MEMORY.md — your decision rules, patterns, past failures, and preferences — that any AI can read to help you better, with privacy guardrails built in. Use when asked to build my memory file, help my AI remember me, create a MEMORY.md, or set up context about myself. Produces a structured personal-context file drawn out through good questions (how you decide, what you keep repeating, what you don't want to repeat), organized for an AI to use — while explicitly refusing to store sensitive data like credentials, financial, health, or others' personal info.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Help me build a MEMORY.md so my AI understands how I work.”“Interview me into a personal context file for Claude.”“I'm tired of re-explaining myself to AI — set up my memory.”“Create a file of my decision rules and preferences.”“Help my AI remember my patterns and past mistakes.”

What to give it

▸The scope — general life, or a specific domain (work, a project, health-adjacent-but-not-sensitive)

▸What you keep re-explaining — the context you're tired of repeating to AI

▸Your patterns — decisions you make the same way, mistakes you repeat

▸Your preferences — how you like output, communication, and process

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Draws content out through questions, not a blank template

✓Captures decision rules, patterns, and past-failure lessons

✓Written as concrete, AI-usable statements

✓Explicitly excludes and refuses sensitive/personal data

✓Is a maintainable, living format with usage guidance

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**A blank template** with no interviewing.

**Vague self-description** an AI can't act on.

**Storing sensitive data** (credentials, financial, health, others' info) — hard no.

**A one-off file** with no way to keep it current.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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