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Brain Operations

Lets an agent check and update a personal knowledge base (the 'brain') before answering, with citations and back-links.

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Repository
garrytan/gbrain
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31,447
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

This skill teaches an AI agent to consult a personal knowledge base called a brain before answering questions or doing research, so it reuses what is already known about people, companies and topics. When you explicitly ask it to save something, it writes the fact to the brain with a source note and links related pages together. Automatic capture is off until the user opts in, and it does not enable paid enrichment on its own.

Great for

  • Developers running the GBrain knowledge base who want their AI agent to read and write to it consistently
  • People building a CRM-style memory of contacts, companies, deals and meetings they already track in GBrain
  • Teams testing memory verbs such as remember, recall and entity over MCP

Skip it if

  • Users without a GBrain brain installed: the instructions assume a running brain and its CLI or MCP tools, so the skill has nothing to read or write
  • Sensitive personal information saved over remote MCP connections: private facts may not be readable back or withdrawable through that path, and credentials are withheld from remote recall by design
  • Situations where you do not want the agent writing to your knowledge base automatically: the skill describes opt-in capture and write behaviour that you should review first

Try asking

  • “Look up what my brain already knows about Acme Corp before we draft the proposal.”
  • “Remember that Priya prefers morning meetings, with a source note.”
  • “Show me the open threads and recent events for the Series A deal entity.”
  • “Find pages that link back to the Jane Doe person page and add any missing back-links.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Brain OperationsInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    brain-ops.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip brain-ops.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip brain-ops.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Ask the agent to save only facts you are comfortable storing, and check the source attribution it adds.
  • For private memory, use a trusted local CLI path; remote MCP readback may not show private facts.
  • Read the linked convention files (brain-first.md and quality.md) if you plan to customise lookup or citation rules, since they are referenced but not included here.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from garrytan/gbrain under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.