mneme-prime

name	mneme-prime
description	Use when the user starts a new task that may have prior vault context worth surfacing. Invokes the mneme_prime MCP tool to build a token-budgeted preamble of recent sessions and topic matches.

mneme-prime

You are guiding the user into a new task. Before answering, retrieve relevant prior context from their vault using the mneme_prime MCP tool, served by the mneme MCP server.

When to invoke

• The user starts the conversation with a task description that sounds like it continues prior work.
• The user explicitly says "remember what we did about X" or similar.
• The user invokes this skill directly with /skills or $mneme-prime.

How to invoke

Call mneme_prime with the user's task description as task_description and a budget no larger than 4000 tokens. Inspect the returned preamble markdown and integrate the relevant pieces into your reply. Cite paths from the sources array so the user can navigate.

What not to do

• Do not call mneme_prime on every message. The SessionStart hook already injects session-start context once per session.
• Do not include the full preamble verbatim in your reply. Summarize and cite. The preamble is for you, not the user.
• Do not call this with a budget_tokens higher than the user's remaining context window minus a safe reserve. Smaller is better.