# Search Prior AI Conversation Memory

AI agents lose context across sessions and may repeat past work. This skill directs Claude, Codex, and Claude Code to search prior conversations before acting.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add 23blocks-os/ai-maestro-memory-search
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: 23blocks-os-ai-maestro-memory-search
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 8796a9089c383c44e747a46fb2228e4af8886f8f9ebe952366419c860eed879f
- Author: 23blocks-OS
- GitHub username: 23blocks-OS
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/23blocks-OS/ai-maestro/tree/main/skills/memory-search
- Ref: c1fdca50ff516318f65fed0d7f9e82797c5171dc
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: confirmation\_required
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, filesystem
- Quality score: 38
- Quality tier: warning
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/23blocks-os-ai-maestro-memory-search
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/23blocks-os-ai-maestro-memory-search/manifest

## Capabilities

- Directs agents to search conversation history before starting new work.
- Provides memory search command patterns for hybrid, semantic, and term search.
- Supports role filters for user messages and assistant responses.
- Suggests searches for bugs, decisions, features, and prior implementations.
- Shows how to combine memory search with documentation search.
- Includes troubleshooting steps for missing local memory tools.

## Use Cases

- Resume Development Work: Recover prior requirements, decisions, and partial implementation context before editing files.
- Avoid Repeated Answers: Find previous explanations before responding, so the agent can build on existing context.
- Review Prior Decisions: Locate earlier choices about architecture, bugs, or product behavior before planning new work.

## Prompt Templates

### Find Prior Context

```
Search memory for previous discussions about [topic], then summarize the relevant decisions before starting.
```

### Continue Earlier Work

```
Search for past work on [feature], identify what remains, and explain the next implementation step.
```

### Compare Memory And Docs

```
Search memory and documentation for [component], then list prior decisions, current guidance, and conflicts.
```

### Investigate Repeated Issue

```
Search user and assistant history for [bug], group prior fixes, and recommend the safest next action.
```

## Limitations

- Requires memory-search.sh to be installed and available on PATH.
- The package does not include the helper scripts or search index.
- Requires Bash access, so restricted environments cannot use every workflow.
- Search quality depends on available conversation history and indexing.

## Best Practices

- Search only for terms that are relevant to the current user request.
- Summarize found context before acting on it.
- Treat missing search results as useful context, not as a failure.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not run memory searches for unrelated or sensitive topics.
- Do not treat search results as current facts without verification.
- Do not install helper scripts without reviewing their source.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-06T00:36:25.591\+00:00
- Summary: Several static external-command alerts are Markdown false positives, but the skill does instruct Bash execution of local helper scripts and an unaudited installer. I found no evidence of network exfiltration, but the forceful always-on memory behavior and conversation-history access create security and privacy concerns.

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