CAO Memory

CAO Memory is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by awslabs in cli-agent-orchestrator.

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Install CAO Memory

Copy CAO Memory 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/awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator/tree/main/skills/cao-memory ~/.claude/skills/cao-memory

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/awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/cao-memory/SKILL.md in awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cao-memory
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What CAO Memory does

CAO Memory stores, recalls, and forgets durable facts across sessions and providers. Use it to save preferences, project conventions, corrections, and other details the user should not have to repeat.

CAO Memory is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. CAO Memory comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, ai-agents, ai-coding-assistant, antigravity and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CAO Memory

CAO gives every agent a shared, persistent memory. A fact you store in one session is available to a brand-new agent in a later session — even on a different provider. Use it so the user never has to repeat themselves.

These are CAO's cross-provider memory tools (memory_store, memory_recall, memory_forget), exposed by the CAO MCP server. They are distinct from any provider-native memory the CLI tool may have.

Scopes and types

Every memory has a scope (where it applies) and a type (what kind of fact it is).

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

Frequently asked about CAO Memory

What else does awslabs publish alongside CAO Memory?
CAO Memory is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AG-UI Author, AI-DLC Portfolio and Add UI To MCP Server. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CAO Memory does, and is maintained by awslabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator page.
How does CAO Memory compare to other AI Engineering skills?
CAO Memory ranks #1265 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 CAO Memory against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.