Search Memory

This gives Claude access to your personal knowledge base through the nmem CLI, letting it proactively surface relevant past insights without you having to ask. It searches when context suggests you've solved similar problems before, like debugging patterns, architecture decisions, or domain conventions. The autonomous recognition is the interesting part: it picks up on signals like "that approach we used" or recurring themes across sessions. Scores above 0.6 are direct matches, 0.3 to 0.6 are related. It can also search past conversation threads and load them progressively instead of dumping everything at once. Useful if you're building up institutional knowledge across sessions and want Claude to actually remember your documented breakthroughs.

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$ npx -y skills add nowledge-co/community --skill search-memory --agent claude-code

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Search Memory

AI-powered search across your personal knowledge base using Nowledge Mem.

When to Use

Strong signals — search when:

the user references previous work, a prior fix, or an earlier decision
the task resumes a named feature, bug, refactor, incident, or subsystem
the task is a review, regression, release, docs-alignment, or connector-behavior question
a debugging pattern resembles something solved earlier
the user asks for rationale, preferences, procedures, or recurring workflow details
the user uses implicit recall language: "that approach", "like before", "the pattern we used"

Contextual signals — consider searching when:

complex debugging where prior context would narrow the search space
architecture discussion that may intersect with past decisions
domain-specific conventions the user has established before
the current result is ambiguous and past context would make the answer sharper

Retrieval Routing

Prefer the host's Nowledge Mem MCP tools when exposed: memory_search for durable knowledge, thread_search for past conversations, and thread_fetch_messages for inspecting a matching conversation. Otherwise:

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