Archive

by ReScienceLab

Archive is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by ReScienceLab in opc-skills.

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Install Archive

Copy Archive into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ReScienceLab/opc-skills/tree/main/skills/archive ~/.claude/skills/archive

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ReScienceLab/opc-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/archive/SKILL.md in ReScienceLab/opc-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/archive
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Archive does

Archive captures session learnings, debugging solutions, and deployment logs into indexed markdown files under .archive/yyyy-mm-dd/ with searchable tags. Use it after completing significant tasks or resolving tricky bugs to reuse knowledge across sessions.

Archive is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Archive comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-tools, claude-code, geo and llm-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Archive Skill

Capture, index, and reuse project knowledge across sessions.

When to Archive

After completing a significant task (deploy, migration, major feature)
After resolving a tricky debugging session
When the user says "archive this"
After any multi-step process with learnings worth preserving

When to Consult Archives

Before debugging infrastructure, deploy, or CI issues
Before repeating a process done in a past session
When encountering an error that may have been solved before

Search: grep -ri "keyword" .archive/ Index: .archive/MEMORY.md

Archive Workflow

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Archive

What else does ReScienceLab publish alongside Archive?
Archive is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ReScienceLab/opc-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add New OPC Skill, Banner Creator and Domain Hunter. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Archive does, and is maintained by ReScienceLab in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ReScienceLab/opc-skills page.
How does Archive compare to other Writing skills?
Archive ranks #311 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Archive against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.