Agent Memory & Skills

Memory layers, skill registries, hooks, and agent infrastructure for persistent context

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hermes-agent: Hermes Agent: The Open-Source Assistant That Learns What To Remember
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hermes-agent: Hermes Agent: The Open-Source Assistant That Learns What To Remember
A persistent, model-agnostic agent framework that turns conversations into memory, skills, and future training data across CLI, chat apps, and serverless infrastructure.
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anthropics/skills: The Tiny Spec That Turns Claude Into a Specialist
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anthropics/skills: The Tiny Spec That Turns Claude Into a Specialist
How a folder, a SKILL.md, and disciplined scripts let Anthropic ship on-demand expertise without flooding the context window.
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Headroom: The Compression Layer That Turns Context Into Infrastructure
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Headroom: The Compression Layer That Turns Context Into Infrastructure
A Rust-first middleware for AI agents that shrinks token load, preserves meaning with retrieval markers, and makes LLM context behave more like a managed system than a text dump.
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CodeGraph: The Local Memory Layer That Lets AI Agents Stop Re-reading Your Codebase
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CodeGraph: The Local Memory Layer That Lets AI Agents Stop Re-reading Your Codebase
A deep look at the SQLite graph, detached daemon, and blast-radius engine that turn code exploration into a reusable system instead of a token leak.
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MemPalace: The AI Memory System That Refuses to Forget the Original Conversation
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MemPalace: The AI Memory System That Refuses to Forget the Original Conversation
Instead of summarizing your past into brittle facts, MemPalace stores verbatim history, organizes it like a palace, and retrieves it locally with Rust-powered precision.
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claude-mem: Curing Agent Amnesia with an Autonomous Flight Recorder
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claude-mem: Curing Agent Amnesia with an Autonomous Flight Recorder
How a passive background daemon transforms ephemeral CLI sessions into a permanent, searchable memory bank for Claude Code.
MemPalace: The AI Memory System That Refuses to Forget the Details
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MemPalace: The AI Memory System That Refuses to Forget the Details
A local-first, verbatim memory vault for LLMs that treats exact context as the product, not a byproduct.
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hermes-agent: Hermes Agent: The Open-Source Agent That Actually Remembers
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hermes-agent: Hermes Agent: The Open-Source Agent That Actually Remembers
A deep look at Nous Research’s persistent, multi-platform agent framework, where memory is writable, skills are durable, and the interface is no longer tied to one machine.
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The Standard Library for AI Agents: Inside sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills
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The Standard Library for AI Agents: Inside sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills
How a massive collection of Markdown files turned prompt engineering into a versioned, installable dependency tree for the agentic era.
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`obsidian-skills`: The Markdown Middleware That Teaches AI How to Speak Obsidian
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`obsidian-skills`: The Markdown Middleware That Teaches AI How to Speak Obsidian
A surprisingly formal bridge between LLMs and a deeply opinionated knowledge base, where prompt files, schemas, and reference docs become the operating layer.
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QMD: The Local Memory Engine That Teaches Agents the Missing Context
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QMD: The Local Memory Engine That Teaches Agents the Missing Context
A hybrid search system for notes and docs that fuses lexical search, vectors, reranking, and hierarchical path metadata into one agent-ready memory layer.
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Beads: the issue tracker that gives AI agents a memory layer
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Beads: the issue tracker that gives AI agents a memory layer
Instead of another markdown checklist, Beads stores tasks as a versioned, dependency-aware graph so agents can claim, branch, merge, and compact work without losing context.
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GBrain: The Personal Memory Brain Built for Agents, Not Humans
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GBrain: The Personal Memory Brain Built for Agents, Not Humans
An opinionated Postgres-native knowledge system that turns notes, meetings, and inbox history into compiled truth, hybrid search, and automated overnight cleanup.
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KKKKhazix/khazix-skills Turns Prompts Into an Operating System for AI Work
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KKKKhazix/khazix-skills Turns Prompts Into an Operating System for AI Work
A look inside the repo that packages research workflows, writing style, and output formatting into reusable Skills that agents can execute, not just read.
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The End of the Goldfish Agent: Inside supermemoryai/supermemory
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The End of the Goldfish Agent: Inside supermemoryai/supermemory
How a consumer "second brain" pivoted into an open-source infrastructure layer that uses graph structures and the Model Context Protocol to fix the amnesia of modern AI.
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awesome-dsh-plugin: The Awesome List That Became an Agent Registry
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awesome-dsh-plugin: The Awesome List That Became an Agent Registry
A deep look at how DeepSeek Harness’s plugin hub uses YAML, search skills, and decay scans to run an ecosystem built for both people and AI agents.
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Memori: The Memory Layer That Turns LLM Calls Into Durable Agent State
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Memori: The Memory Layer That Turns LLM Calls Into Durable Agent State
A zero-config interceptor, SQL-native storage, and entity-process attribution give AI agents something most still lack: a real memory system that survives sessions without bloating the prompt.
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openai/skills: The Repository That Turns Prompts into Portable Agent Skills
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openai/skills: The Repository That Turns Prompts into Portable Agent Skills
OpenAI's skills system packages instructions, docs, scripts, and validation into reusable modules, so agents act more like disciplined software than freeform text generators.
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Cognee: The Knowledge Engine Trying to Give AI a Real Memory
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Cognee: The Knowledge Engine Trying to Give AI a Real Memory
How a Python-first project turns messy data into grounded graphs, hybrid retrieval, and a memory loop that can remember, reconcile, and improve.
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graphify: The Tool That Turns Codebases Into Maps Instead of Search Results
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graphify: The Tool That Turns Codebases Into Maps Instead of Search Results
A Python skill for AI coding assistants that builds a structured knowledge graph from code, docs, and images, then uses topology, clustering, and labeled inference to guide understanding.
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The Package Manager for AI Agents: Inside Context Hub
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The Package Manager for AI Agents: Inside Context Hub
Why Andrew Ng's team built a curated, machine-readable registry to cure API hallucinations and gave coding agents a long-term memory.
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memvid/memvid: The End of Vector Database Hell
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memvid/memvid: The End of Vector Database Hell
How a Rust-based memory engine uses video encoding algorithms to compress a complete RAG pipeline into a single portable file.
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watermarks-remover: The Open-Source Pipeline Built to Scrub AI Provenance at Every Layer
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watermarks-remover: The Open-Source Pipeline Built to Scrub AI Provenance at Every Layer
From invisible Unicode characters to C2PA manifests and metadata, this repo treats AI watermark removal as a systems problem, not a text hack.
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fff.nvim: The File Picker That Learns What You Mean
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fff.nvim: The File Picker That Learns What You Mean
A Rust-powered Neovim and MCP search engine that ranks files by frecency, remembers query habits, and serves both developers and AI agents with the same persistent index.
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colleague-skill: The Open-Source Repo That Tries to Preserve a Coworker’s Judgment
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colleague-skill: The Open-Source Repo That Tries to Preserve a Coworker’s Judgment
colleague-skill turns messages, docs, and code into a runnable Skill that speaks and reasons like the person who left.
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OpenSpace: The Skill Layer That Lets AI Agents Inherit Their Own Work
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OpenSpace: The Skill Layer That Lets AI Agents Inherit Their Own Work
A deep dive into a self-evolving middleware for Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP agents, where skills are repaired, reused, and ranked like living code.
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The Registry That Audits Intent: Inside openclaw/clawhub
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The Registry That Audits Intent: Inside openclaw/clawhub
How the package manager for AI agents uses LLMs to evaluate semantic security, block prompt injection, and safely distribute autonomous skills.
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fast-jev-compaction: The Context Compressor That Refuses to Summarize
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fast-jev-compaction: The Context Compressor That Refuses to Summarize
A Claude Code plugin that keeps user and assistant text verbatim, uses a fast probabilistic model to prune tool history, and degrades gracefully when token budgets get tight.
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darwin-skill: When Git Becomes the Fitness Function for AI Skills
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darwin-skill: When Git Becomes the Fitness Function for AI Skills
An autonomous optimization loop that tests `SKILL.md`, scores what works, and reverts what doesn’t, so agent skills evolve by evidence instead of vibes.
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Rivet and the Architecture of the Infinite Memory
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Rivet and the Architecture of the Infinite Memory
How a 0.6KB Actor model is eliminating the database round-trip for AI agents and real-time apps.
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byterover-cli: The memory layer that keeps coding agents from forgetting the project
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byterover-cli: The memory layer that keeps coding agents from forgetting the project
ByteRover CLI turns scattered agent sessions into a portable context tree that can survive tools, resets, and task switches.
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`human-writing`: The Repo That Turns AI Prose Into a Writing System
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`human-writing`: The Repo That Turns AI Prose Into a Writing System
A deep dive into the Skill that fights AI flavor with material checks, rhetorical rules, and a Python linter for sentence rhythm.
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awesome-persona-distill-skills: `awesome-persona-skills`: The Open-Source Machine That Turns Human Traces into Agent Skills
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awesome-persona-distill-skills: `awesome-persona-skills`: The Open-Source Machine That Turns Human Traces into Agent Skills
A curated list, submission workflow, and validation pipeline that treats persona extraction as a repeatable engineering problem, not a pile of prompts.
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skills-manager: The Package Manager for Your AI Agents
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skills-manager: The Package Manager for Your AI Agents
A Rust and Tauri desktop app that centralizes prompts, MCP tools, and agent presets, then syncs them across Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and more with Git and filesystem links.
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Sepia: The Open-Source Skill That Repairs AI Writing at the Structural Level
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Sepia: The Open-Source Skill That Repairs AI Writing at the Structural Level
Instead of swapping words, Sepia rewrites narrative flow, paragraph logic, and stylistic over-completeness to make machine-generated prose feel less machine-shaped.
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SkillOpt: Training a Markdown Skill File Like a Model Weight
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SkillOpt: Training a Markdown Skill File Like a Model Weight
Microsoft’s framework treats agent instructions as editable state, then optimizes them through rollouts, reflection, bounded patches, and validation gates instead of fine-tuning.
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`os-taxonomy`: The Open Curriculum Graph That Treats Learning Like Infrastructure
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`os-taxonomy`: The Open Curriculum Graph That Treats Learning Like Infrastructure
A machine-checkable map of primary education, with prerequisites, standards mapping, semantic topic types, and legal provenance baked into the data model.
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Supabase MCP: The Control Layer That Lets AI Operate a Cloud Backend
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Supabase MCP: The Control Layer That Lets AI Operate a Cloud Backend
A deep dive into how Supabase turns MCP into a typed, security-aware bridge between agents and the infrastructure behind your app.
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`obsidian-second-brain`: The Repo That Turns Obsidian Into a Self-Rewriting Memory System
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`obsidian-second-brain`: The Repo That Turns Obsidian Into a Self-Rewriting Memory System
A deep dive into the adapter pattern, anti-fabrication guardrails, and reconciliation loop that keep an AI vault coherent instead of merely full.
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wechat-intelligence-hub Is a Local CRM Hidden Inside Your WeChat History
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wechat-intelligence-hub Is a Local CRM Hidden Inside Your WeChat History
A read-only intelligence layer that turns chat logs into follow-ups, deal tracking, and daily briefings, using deterministic heuristics, SQLite, and agent-friendly CLI tools.
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Claudeception: The Claude Code skill that teaches an agent to remember what it just learned
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Claudeception: The Claude Code skill that teaches an agent to remember what it just learned
A self-referential meta-skill for turning debugging wins, workarounds, and project-specific patterns into reusable long-term knowledge.
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9arm-skills: The Repo That Turns Claude Code Into a Disciplined Agent
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9arm-skills: The Repo That Turns Claude Code Into a Disciplined Agent
A skill store, a refusal engine, and a set of workflows that teach an LLM how to debug, review, and report with more rigor than a normal chat prompt ever could.
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OptMem: The Memory System That Treats Position as Identity
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OptMem: The Memory System That Treats Position as Identity
A single-file agent memory layer that skips vector databases, stores history in fixed-width logs, and compresses the past into a navigable summary tree.
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letta-code: Curing the Coding Agent's Goldfish Memory
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letta-code: Curing the Coding Agent's Goldfish Memory
How a virtual filesystem and a React-powered CLI turn stateless LLMs into persistent engineering partners.
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Mirage: The Filesystem That Teaches AI Agents How to Work
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Mirage: The Filesystem That Teaches AI Agents How to Work
A unified virtual filesystem that turns cloud services, databases, and local files into one Unix-like workspace, with command overrides that make raw data readable to an LLM.
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anti-distill: The Skill That Lets Workers Hide Their Best Knowledge in Plain Sight
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anti-distill: The Skill That Lets Workers Hide Their Best Knowledge in Plain Sight
A prompt-as-code countermeasure for corporate AI training, built to return a polished submission copy and a private backup of the real expertise.
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open-kimi-ppt-skill: The Ghost Repo That Turned AI Text Into Editable Slides
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open-kimi-ppt-skill: The Ghost Repo That Turned AI Text Into Editable Slides
An unofficial Kimi Slides bridge promised a better last mile for presentations, with PPTD, PPTX, and a local editor. Then the code vanished, leaving behind a community that still wanted the workflow.
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yomiyasu: The Linter That Treats AI Japanese Like Code
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yomiyasu: The Linter That Treats AI Japanese Like Code
A deep look at a zero-dependency Agent Skill that catches AI slop, restores missing subjects, and rewrites Japanese without losing intent.
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