---
id: CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS/memory-kit
version: "7daa7f0d"
license: MIT
install: manual
updated: 2026-07-27
---

# memory-kit — Memory Kit sets up a .cowork/ directory in your workspace to store rules, identity information, long-term notes, daily logs, and heartbeat templates. Use it when you need to establish persistent context and configuration for your work environment.

Publisher: CoWork-OS · Stars: 406 · Updated: 2026-07-27

Install (manual): `git clone https://github.com/CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS`

## SKILL.md

# Memory Kit

## Purpose

Create a workspace-local .cowork/ memory kit (rules, identity, long-term notes, daily logs, heartbeat templates).

## Routing

- Use when: Use when the user asks to create a workspace-local.cowork/ memory kit rules, identity, long-term notes, daily logs, heartbeat templates.
- Do not use when: Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
- Outputs: Outcome from Memory Kit: task-specific result plus concrete action notes.
- Success criteria: Returns concrete actions and decisions matching the requested task, with no fabricated tool-side behavior.

## Trigger Examples

### Positive

- Use the memory-kit skill for this request.
- Help me with memory kit.
- Use when the user asks to create a workspace-local.cowork/ memory kit rules, identity, long-term notes, daily logs, heartbeat templates.
- Memory Kit: provide an actionable result.

### Negative

- Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
- Do not use memory-kit for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside memory kit scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

## Runtime Prompt

- Current runtime prompt length: 894 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../memory-kit.json`. 


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