memory-to-skill

zilliztech/memsearch Agent tooling

memory-to-skill is a skill in zilliztech/memsearch, last changed 20 Oct 2026. It can run shell commands and pre-approve tools — read the findings before installing.

From the author

Turn workflows from your MemSearch memory into reusable skills. Use when the user asks to make/create/extract/distill a skill from what they just did or from past work, review skill candidates, install a distilled skill, or 'turn this into a skill'. Manages MemSearch procedural-memory candidates under .memsearch/skill-candidates/, not the host agent's own skills system.

How much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

Pattern check

1 item to review

Broad tools pre-approved in allowed-tools

R34 · High · SKILL.md:5

Commit 65d8b22 · 3 Nov 2026

How the check works

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Install

Each tab says whether it installs commit 65d8b22, the one we checked, or the latest version.

OpenCode also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Goose also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Windsurf (Devin Desktop) also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Zed also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Roo Code also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Factory Droid also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Junie also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

Amp also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.

No install command here reaches Kiro. Copy the skill's folder into .kiro/skills/ in your project, or ~/.kiro/skills/ for all your projects. zilliztech/memsearch/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill (opens in a new tab)

Antigravity also looks in .agents/skills/, so the Any agent steps reach it with This project. For All projects, see where Antigravity looks.

Cline also looks in .claude/skills/, so the Claude Code steps reach it with This project. For All projects, see where Cline looks.

No tab for your agent? Use Any agent for OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Zed, Roo Code, Factory Droid, Junie and Amp. With This project, Any agent also reaches Antigravity and Claude Code reaches Cline. Kiro needs the folder copied by hand.

Read this before installing: Broad tools pre-approved in allowed-tools — SKILL.md:5

Pinned to commit 65d8b22, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&mkdir -p .claude/skills &&mkdir .claude/skills/memory-to-skill &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill/. .claude/skills/memory-to-skill/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

If Claude Code was already running and this created the skills folder, run /reload-skills.

Claude Code docs

Pinned to commit 65d8b22, the one we checked.

Skills in the Claude apps belong to your account rather than to a project.

Make memory-to-skill.zip, with the skill folder at the top level:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&out="$(mktemp -d)" &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill "$out"/memory-to-skill &&(cd "$out" && zip -qr - memory-to-skill) > memory-to-skill.zip &&rm -rf "$tmp" "$out"

In Claude, open Customize > Skills, select +, then + Create skill > Upload a skill, and choose memory-to-skill.zip.

On Free, Pro and Max plans, turn on Code execution and file creation (Create and edit files in newer settings) under Settings > Capabilities.

Claude apps docs

Pinned to commit 65d8b22, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&mkdir -p .agents/skills &&mkdir .agents/skills/memory-to-skill &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill/. .agents/skills/memory-to-skill/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

Codex picks up new skills on its own; restart it if this one does not appear.

Codex docs

Pinned to commit 65d8b22, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&mkdir -p .cursor/skills &&mkdir .cursor/skills/memory-to-skill &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill/. .cursor/skills/memory-to-skill/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

Cursor docs

Pinned to commit 65d8b22, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&mkdir -p .github/skills &&mkdir .github/skills/memory-to-skill &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill/. .github/skills/memory-to-skill/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

In a running Copilot CLI session, run /skills reload.

Or install it with gh skill, which also installs the commit we checked. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later.

gh skill install zilliztech/memsearch plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill/SKILL.md@65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 --agent github-copilot --scope project

Copilot & VS Code docs

Pinned to commit 65d8b22, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&mkdir -p .gemini/skills &&mkdir .gemini/skills/memory-to-skill &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill/. .gemini/skills/memory-to-skill/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

In a running session, run /skills reload.

Or use Gemini CLI’s own installer. Installs the latest version, not the one we checked.

gemini skills install https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git --path plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill --scope workspace

Gemini CLI docs

Pinned to commit 65d8b22, the one we checked.

OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Zed, Roo Code, Factory Droid, Junie, Amp and Antigravity read .agents/skills in a project.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 65d8b220d4265f70441785aa22203f0e85ea3ec6 &&mkdir -p .agents/skills &&mkdir .agents/skills/memory-to-skill &&cp -R "$tmp"/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-to-skill/. .agents/skills/memory-to-skill/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"

Or use the skills CLI from skills.sh. Installs the latest version, not the one we checked. The skills CLI reports installs to skills.sh unless you set DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1.

npx skills@1.7.4 add zilliztech/memsearch --skill memory-to-skill

Agent Skills docs

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3 Nov 2026

What it can touch

From the files and frontmatter at commit 65d8b22. This is how much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

Runs shell commands
Its instructions or files give the agent commands to run on your computer.
Pre-approves tools
Its allowed-tools field lists tools the agent may use without asking you first, in agents that honour it.
SKILL.md:5 (opens in a new tab)

Pattern check

Pattern check: 1 item to review · commit 65d8b22 · 3 Nov 2026

R34 · HighBroad tools pre-approved in allowed-tools
SKILL.md:5 (opens in a new tab)
```
allowed-tools: Bash
```

We checked every text file in this skill, at commit 65d8b22 on 3 Nov 2026, against 45 published patterns such as download-and-run commands, hidden text and credential access. We don't run the skill, we don't read the web pages it points to, and we can't judge everything its instructions might lead an agent to do. In published tests, pattern checks like this one missed most malicious skills. Read the skill before you install it — especially anything it asks you to download or run.

How the check works Report an incorrect finding

Format check

Each agent reads SKILL.md a little differently. We check the file against each one's published rules; we don't run the skill in any agent.

Agent Skills specPasses with warnings
The open format from agentskills.io, held to the strictest version of each rule among the agents we check.
- Warning
  Fields outside the spec: context (read by Claude Code and VS Code). Uploads to the Claude apps and API, and the spec's validator, reject the file; most agents ignore these fields. O1
  Fix: Delete them for a portable skill, or keep them if you only target the agents that read them.
- Note
  There is no license field, so readers can't tell whether they may reuse the skill. O2
  Fix: Add license: with an SPDX name such as MIT or Apache-2.0, or the name of a bundled licence file.
Claude CodePasses
Claude apps & API uploadFails
Uploading to claude.ai or the Claude API, or packaging with Anthropic's script, accepts only the six spec fields and stops on anything else.
- Error
  Upload and packaging fail on fields outside the spec: context. O1
  Fix: Delete them, and keep your own data under metadata as text values.
- Note
  The description is 372 characters. The claude.ai Help Center says 200 at most, though Anthropic's API docs and validator allow 1,024. D4
  Fix: If the claude.ai upload refuses it, trim the description to 200 characters.
OpenAI (Codex & API)Passes with warnings
Codex finds SKILL.md by its exact name and needs a description; OpenAI's Skills API checks the frontmatter against the spec and caps uploads.
- Warning
  Fields outside the spec: context. Codex ignores them; OpenAI doesn't say whether its upload accepts them. O1
  Fix: Delete them, or move your own data under metadata as text values.
VS Code & CopilotPasses

SKILL.md

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references/openclaw.md (opens in a new tab)	702 B
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