# Guru Memory > Recall or maintain project-owned Wiki, Lens, Evidence, and Method memory, initialize a workspace, or inspect and explicitly change Guru Mode. Use automatically in an initialized Guru Maker project when a natural-language investment request can materially benefit from existing local memory or produces eligible stable knowledge, even if the user does not mention Guru Maker, a Skill, or saving. Use also for a short follow-up that clearly refers to saved investment memory but omits its subject, so the missing referent is requested before searching. Use when no external refresh, analysis of supplied point-in-time external evidence or data, or point-in-time judgment is requested; an explicit request to retain a supplied source is still memory work. Do not use for research, Decisions or outcomes, deliberate lesson extraction, or Guru Pack lifecycle work. - Skill: `monarchjuno/guru-memory` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add monarchjuno/guru-memory` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/monarchjuno/guru-memory/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Research & Search - Author: monarchjuno (https://skillmd.com/u/monarchjuno) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/monarchjuno/guru-memory --- # Guru Memory Maintain project-owned investment memory as ordinary Markdown under `guru-maker/`. Do not create a workspace for a read-only request; initialize it only when the user asks to retain memory or install a Guru Pack. Treat a matching natural-language request as sufficient invocation. Do not require the user to name Guru Maker, this Skill, a record kind, or a save command. In an initialized project, use relevant memory when it can materially improve the answer. A short or elliptical request may be resolved from the immediate task, explicitly supplied artifacts, and targeted project-memory search; ask a clarifying question only when the unresolved ambiguity would materially change the answer or authorized action. When no referent and no supplied artifact exists, ask immediately without scanning project files, searching memory, reading Guru Mode, inspecting health, listing records, or rendering the Decision Graph. Resolve every linked reference path relative to this loaded `SKILL.md`. The loaded Skill directory is authoritative: when it is under `/.agents/skills/`, `../../shared/...` reaches `/.agents/shared/...`. Never substitute a user-global `.codex` path, another plugin-cache path, or `skills/shared/...`. Read [project retrieval](../../shared/gurumaker/references/retrieval.md), [the workspace contract](../../shared/gurumaker/references/workspace-contract.md), [Guru Mode](../../shared/gurumaker/references/guru-mode.md), and [the Runtime contract](../../shared/gurumaker/references/runtime.md) as the requested operation needs them. Read [the record contract](../../shared/gurumaker/references/record-contract.md) before changing a Wiki, Lens, Evidence, or Method, and [the in-task curation contract](../../shared/gurumaker/references/curation.md) before any such write. Use the Runtime search and exact-read path for project memory. Do not enumerate the memory tree or open remembered elements directly by filesystem path. Never run `rg`, `grep`, `find`, `ls`, `cat`, `sed`, or another filesystem command against `guru-maker/`, even for metadata or to locate an ID; use Runtime search and read. Do not run `init` in an already initialized workspace or after a successful mode or knowledge command; a no-match is not evidence that initialization is missing. Read the stored mode before the first possible memory write and change it only after an explicit user request. In `auto`, a completed task may make the minimum durable improvement allowed by the Guru Mode contract. In `off`, create or update memory only when the user explicitly requests it. Before creating or updating an element, run a targeted search for its durable concept with compact candidates; use the bounded reformulation allowed by the retrieval contract when an alias, identifier, language, or terminology mismatch is plausible. For a language mismatch, translate the same concept once into the likely record language or canonical domain term; repeating the unchanged query is not a reformulation. This pre-write search does not apply to workspace `init`. Own the kind-specific, bounded local curation sequence: improve a matching Wiki, Lens, or Method when appropriate, preserve point-in-time Evidence, choose the record kind from the semantic payload rather than the user's wording, and keep every reusable record independently usable. Wiki `see_also` is optional one-hop navigation, never a reason to load or edit all neighbors. Follow the curation contract for folder placement, the Auto five-existing-record budget, explicitly reviewed broader scopes, health, final validation, and reporting. Route externally refreshed research, Decisions and Execution Briefs, deliberate lesson extraction, and Guru Pack management to their public Skills.