Tree Ring Memory

Guides AI agents in using Tree Ring Memory for durable recall, project decisions, user preferences, warnings, future seeds, privacy-safe memory capture, and lifecycle-aware forgetting.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add TerminallyLazy/Tree-Ring-Memory --skill tree-ring-memory

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TerminallyLazy/Tree-Ring-Memory.git /tmp/Tree-Ring-Memory
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/Tree-Ring-Memory/skills/tree-ring-memory ~/.claude/skills/tree-ring-memory

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Tree Ring Memory

Use Tree Ring Memory as a lifecycle-aware memory layer, not as a transcript dump.

Tree Ring Memory preserves meaningful agent learning like tree rings:

- fresh work stays detailed
- older learning compresses into stable rings
- important warnings remain visible as scars
- durable truths become heartwood
- speculative future work stays as seeds
- sensitive data is blocked, redacted, or kept out by default

## Runtime Bootstrap And Updates

Resolve the actual project root before running Tree Ring. Never initialize a
plugin cache, downloaded package directory, home directory, or arbitrary
working directory by accident.

1. If `<project-root>/.tree-ring/bin/tree-ring` exists, prefer that binary for
   this project. Otherwise check `command -v tree-ring` and run
   `tree-ring --version`.
2. Read existing `<project-root>/.tree-ring/SKILL.md` and `CLI.md` when present.
3. If no CLI is available and the user's request already authorizes Tree Ring
   setup, install the verified current release project-locally from the project
   root. Otherwise explain the exact operation and obtain permission before the
   network download or software installation. Download the official,
   version-pinned `v0.15.0/install.sh` installer to a temporary file, verify its
   SHA-256 is
   `ef0d5eb8f09cbe2e4c3abe80ee9a98a56759c89ad4ddd103d6c68314cd653ade`,
   inspect it, and only then run:

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: tree-ring-memory
Repository: TerminallyLazy/Tree-Ring-Memory
Path: skills/tree-ring-memory/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Repo updated: 17 September 2026
Copies: Found in 2 GitHub repos
Listed in: heilcheng/awesome-agent-skills, karanb192/awesome-claude-skills

FAQ

What does the Tree Ring Memory skill do?

Guides AI agents in using Tree Ring Memory for durable recall, project decisions, user preferences, warnings, future seeds, privacy-safe memory capture, and lifecycle-aware forgetting.

How do I install the Tree Ring Memory skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add TerminallyLazy/Tree-Ring-Memory --skill tree-ring-memory. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Tree Ring Memory popular?

It lives in TerminallyLazy/Tree-Ring-Memory, which has 22 GitHub stars and 4 forks, and is included in 2 curated skill lists.

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