/mempalace
MemPalace — mine projects and conversations into a searchable memory palace. Use when the user asks about MemPalace, memory palace, mining memories, searching memories, palace setup, wings, rooms, or drawers; or when they want to recall past work that may already be filed in
$ npx -y skills add MemPalace/mempalace --skill mempalace --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/mempalace
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
MemPalace — mine projects and conversations into a searchable memory palace. Use when the user asks about MemPalace, memory palace, mining memories, searching memories, palace setup, wings, rooms, or drawers; or when they want to recall past work that may already be filed in
SKILL.md
mempalace.SKILL.mdname: mempalace
description: MemPalace — mine projects and conversations into a searchable memory palace. Use when the user asks about MemPalace, memory palace, mining memories, searching memories, palace setup, wings, rooms, or drawers; or when they want to recall past work that may already be filed in their palace.
MemPalace
A searchable memory palace for AI — mine projects and conversations, then search them semantically.
Prerequisites
Ensure `mempalace` is installed:
mempalace --version
If not installed (uv recommended):
uv tool install mempalace # or: pip install mempalace
Usage
MemPalace provides dynamic, version-correct instructions via the CLI. To get instructions for any operation:
mempalace instructions <command>
Where `<command>` is one of: `help`, `init`, `mine`, `search`, `status`.
Run the appropriate instructions command, then follow the returned instructions step by step.
Recalling past work
This skill covers setup, mining, and status. For questions about past work, prior decisions, or people that may already be filed in the palace, prefer the **`mempalace-recall`** skill — it enforces search-before-answer so the agent reads the palace instead of guessing.
Cursor-specific notes
- The `mempalace-mcp` server is auto-registered by this plugin. Once installed, all 36 MemPalace MCP tools (`mempalace_search`, `mempalace_add_drawer`, `mempalace_diary_write`, `mempalace_check_duplicate`, `mempalace_diary_read`, etc.) are available to the agent without any further configuration.
- For automatic background saving every N agent turns plus session-start memory recall, also install the Cursor hooks separately by running `hooks/cursor/install.sh --scope user` from a cloned MemPalace repo. See [`website/guide/cursor-hooks.md`](../../website/guide/cursor-hooks.md) for the full walkthrough.
- The recommended `agent_name` when calling `mempalace_diary_write` from a Cursor session is `cursor-ide` (matches the precedent of `claude-code` and `codex`).
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name: mempalace description: MemPalace — mine projects and conversations into a searchable memory palace. Use when the user asks about MemPalace, memory palace, mining memories, searching memories, palace setup, wings, rooms, or drawers; or when they want to recall past work that may already be filed in their palace.
MemPalace
A searchable memory palace for AI — mine projects and conversations, then search them semantically.
Prerequisites
Ensure `mempalace` is installed:
mempalace --version
If not installed (uv recommended):
uv tool install mempalace # or: pip install mempalace
Usage
MemPalace provides dynamic, version-correct instructions via the CLI. To get instructions for any operation:
mempalace instructions <command>
Where `<command>` is one of: `help`, `init`, `mine`, `search`, `status`.
Run the appropriate instructions command, then follow the returned instructions step by step.
Recalling past work
This skill covers setup, mining, and status. For questions about past work, prior decisions, or people that may already be filed in the palace, prefer the **`mempalace-recall`** skill — it enforces search-before-answer so the agent reads the palace instead of guessing.
Cursor-specific notes
- The `mempalace-mcp` server is auto-registered by this plugin. Once installed, all 36 MemPalace MCP tools (`mempalace_search`, `mempalace_add_drawer`, `mempalace_diary_write`, `mempalace_check_duplicate`, `mempalace_diary_read`, etc.) are available to the agent without any further configuration.
- For automatic background saving every N agent turns plus session-start memory recall, also install the Cursor hooks separately by running `hooks/cursor/install.sh --scope user` from a cloned MemPalace repo. See [`website/guide/cursor-hooks.md`](../../website/guide/cursor-hooks.md) for the full walkthrough.
- The recommended `agent_name` when calling `mempalace_diary_write` from a Cursor session is `cursor-ide` (matches the precedent of `claude-code` and `codex`).
Local-first AI memory. Verbatim storage, pluggable backend, 96.6% R@5 raw on LongMemEval — zero API calls. ![][release-link] ![][python-link] ![][license-link] ![][discord-link] Beware of impostor sites. MemPalace has no other official websites.