| name | choose-skill-memory-store |
| description | Choose where skill memory should live when durable state, learned memory, project tracker state, setup, research, decision-adjacent context, or runtime storage is unclear; use decisions for accepted repo decisions. |
Choose Skill Memory Store
Use when a skill, agent, helper, or operating manual needs memory that survives the current turn and the storage bucket is unclear.
Do not use for accepted repo decisions. Use decisions.
Owner Paths
- Memory storage routing map:
skills/context-advisor/references/storage-routing.md.
- Skill design runbook:
skills/skill-author/references/skill-design-decision-runbook.md.
- Skill vocabulary:
skills/skill-author/CONTEXT.md.
- Decision log:
docs/decisions/.
Workflow
- Read
skills/context-advisor/references/storage-routing.md.
- Name the memory owner.
- Name the memory kind.
- Name mutability.
- Name sensitivity.
- Name privacy boundary.
- Name query, retention, deletion, and recovery need.
- Name write actor and review gate.
- Recommend the smallest matching store.
- Name the owner path and next safe action.
Output
- Status: recommend, ask, escalate-decisions, escalate-create-agent-native-skill, or blocked.
- Recommendation: storage bucket and owner path.
- Required facts: owner, kind, mutability, sensitivity, privacy, query, retention, deletion, recovery, write actor.
- Assumptions: facts inferred from prompt.
- Safety: redaction/logging stance, retention/delete route, and write gate.
- Truth stance: canonical source or recall layer.
- Operations needed: none, status, refresh, repair, inspect, backup, migration, or deletion.