remembering-conversations

name	remembering-conversations
description	ALWAYS USE THIS SKILL WHEN STARTING ANY KIND OF WORK, NO MATTER HOW TRIVIAL. You have no memory between sessions and will reinvent solutions or repeat past mistakes UNLESS YOU USE THIS SKILL. Gives you perfect recall of all your past conversations and projects.

Remembering Conversations

Core principle: Search before reinventing. Searching costs nothing; reinventing or repeating mistakes costs everything.

Mandatory: Use the Search Agent

YOU MUST dispatch the search-conversations agent for any historical search.

Announce: "Dispatching search agent to find [topic]."

Then use the Task tool with subagent_type: "search-conversations":

Task tool:
  description: "Search past conversations for [topic]"
  prompt: "Search for [specific query or topic]. Focus on [what you're looking for - e.g., decisions, patterns, gotchas, code examples]."
  subagent_type: "search-conversations"

The agent will:

1. Search with the search tool
2. Read top 2-5 results with the show tool
3. Synthesize findings (200-1000 words)
4. Return actionable insights + sources

Saves 50-100x context vs. loading raw conversations.

When to Use

Search proactively:

• Before implementing features
• Before making architectural decisions
• When debugging (especially familiar-seeming issues)
• When partner mentions past work
• At the start of ANY non-trivial task

Don't search:

• For info in current conversation
• For current codebase structure (use Grep/Read)

Direct Tool Access (Discouraged)

You CAN use MCP tools directly, but DON'T:

• mcp__plugin_episodic-memory_episodic-memory__search
• mcp__plugin_episodic-memory_episodic-memory__show

Using these directly wastes your context window. Always dispatch the agent instead.

See MCP-TOOLS.md for complete API reference if needed for advanced usage.