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archive

This skill captures session learnings, debugging solutions, and deployment logs into a searchable archive organized by date and category.

by ReScienceLabCommunityNot reviewed

Community author

Agents
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Pin
d22efdcpinned Oct 9, 2026
Context cost
about 450 tokenswhen the skill loads
GitHub stars
1,846on resciencelab/opc-skills
Scripts
1 script

What it does

“Archive session learnings, debugging solutions, and deployment logs to .archive/yyyy-mm-dd/ as indexed markdown with searchable tags. Use when completing a significant task, resolving a tricky bug, deploying, or when the user says "archive this". Maintains .archive/MEMORY.md index for cross-session knowledge reuse.”
The author's description, from SKILL.md

Generated summary from the skill's own text

This skill captures session learnings, debugging solutions, and deployment logs into a searchable archive organized by date and category. It maintains an indexed memory file for cross-session knowledge reuse and helps the agent recall past solutions when encountering similar problems.

When to use it

  • After completing significant tasks like deployments or migrations
  • After resolving complex debugging sessions with valuable learnings
  • Before repeating processes done in previous sessions to avoid redundant work
  • When the user explicitly requests to archive information

When not to

  • For temporary notes that don't need to persist across sessions
  • When privacy or security concerns prevent local-only knowledge storage

Install

These commands install from the publisher's repository and need no account.

skills CLI

npx skills add resciencelab/opc-skills --skill archive

Installs from the repository's default branch, which may have changed since the commit we checked.

GitHub CLI 2.90 or later

gh skill install resciencelab/opc-skills archive@d22efdccbe39cbc7a3f4ce6a96b7906416b73006

Installs the commit we checked (d22efdc).

Copy by hand

Download the folder at d22efdc and put it in .claude/skills/archive for Claude Code and in .agents/skills/archive for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

Skill folder on GitHub at d22efdc

Copy for your agent

A prompt for any coding agent. It installs this skill from GitHub at the pinned commit, copies the files as they are, and runs nothing unless you ask.

Prompt

Install the agent skill "archive" by ReScienceLab.

Source, pinned to commit d22efdccbe39cbc7a3f4ce6a96b7906416b73006:
https://github.com/resciencelab/opc-skills/tree/d22efdccbe39cbc7a3f4ce6a96b7906416b73006/skills/archive

1. Download that folder at exactly this commit. Do not use the default branch.
2. Copy every file unchanged, keeping the folder structure, into .claude/skills/archive/ for Claude Code and .agents/skills/archive/ for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. Create the folders if they do not exist.
3. Do not edit the files, and do not run any script in the folder unless I ask you to.
4. When you are done, list the files you copied and where you put them.

Listing and checks: https://www.agentnative.dev/skills/resciencelab/archive

SKILL.md at the pin

---
name: archive
description: "Archive session learnings, debugging solutions, and deployment logs to .archive/yyyy-mm-dd/ as indexed markdown with searchable tags. Use when completing a significant task, resolving a tricky bug, deploying, or when the user says \"archive this\". Maintains .archive/MEMORY.md index for cross-session knowledge reuse."
---

# 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

1. Read `.archive/MEMORY.md` — check for related existing archives
2. Create `.archive/YYYY-MM-DD/` directory if needed
3. Write markdown file with YAML frontmatter (see `references/TEMPLATE.md`)
4. **Update `.archive/MEMORY.md`**: add one-line entry under the right category
5. If related archives exist, add `related` field in frontmatter

## Lookup Workflow

1. Read `.archive/MEMORY.md` to find relevant entries
2. Read the specific archive file for detailed context
3. Apply learnings to current task

## Categories

- **infrastructure** — AWS, ECS, IAM, networking, secrets, CloudWatch
- **release** — TestFlight, versioning, Git Flow, CHANGELOG
- **debugging** — Bug fixes, error resolution, gotchas
- **feature** — Feature design, implementation notes
- **design** — UI/UX, icons, visual design

## Rules

- `.archive/` must be in `.gitignore` — local-only notes
- Keep entries concise but reproducible
- Focus on **problems, fixes, and exact commands**
- Always update MEMORY.md after creating an archive
- Use descriptive filenames (e.g., `cloudwatch-logging.md` not `session.md`)
- Include YAML frontmatter with `tags`, `category`, and optional `related`

From resciencelab/opc-skills at d22efdc, shown as plain text under its license: Apache-2.0 (permissive). The license text is in LICENSE.

View SKILL.md on GitHub at d22efdc

Files

5 files, 4.3 KB in total. Each file has a sha256 in the pin's manifest; the first 12 characters are shown.

Skill folder on GitHub at d22efdc
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