Memory Starter Kit

Memory Starter Kit is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by mage0535 in hermes-memory-installer.

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Install Memory Starter Kit

Copy Memory Starter Kit 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/mage0535/hermes-memory-installer/tree/main/skills/memory-starter-kit ~/.claude/skills/memory-starter-kit

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/mage0535/hermes-memory-installer.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/memory-starter-kit/SKILL.md in mage0535/hermes-memory-installer
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/memory-starter-kit
Collection: One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3101 skills

What Memory Starter Kit does

Memory Starter Kit preserves historical notes for the Hermes memory sidecar stack. Use it to map older deployments to the current three-layer surfaces and avoid treating obsolete helpers as a live install guide.

Memory Starter Kit is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Memory Starter Kit comes from a repository tagged agent-memory, ai-agent, claude-code, cli and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Memory Starter Kit

Hermes-only historical note: this skill is kept for repository continuity, not as a current portable install contract.

Current Status

The old four-layer description is obsolete. The maintained local/public build is the three-layer sidecar documented in:

README.md
ARCHITECTURE.md
docs/compatibility-matrix.md

Use This Skill For

understanding the historical evolution of the project
mapping old Hermes deployments to the current sidecar surfaces
identifying which older helpers are no longer part of the default install set

Do Not Use This Skill As

a production installation guide
a multi-agent compatibility contract
a source of current runtime dependencies

Current Portable Runtime

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

Frequently asked about Memory Starter Kit

What else does mage0535 publish alongside Memory Starter Kit?
Memory Starter Kit is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mage0535/hermes-memory-installer, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Memory Archivist and Memory Proactive. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Memory Starter Kit does, and is maintained by mage0535 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mage0535/hermes-memory-installer page.
How does Memory Starter Kit compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Memory Starter Kit ranks #2805 by stars among the 3101 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 Memory Starter Kit against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.