How do I install the Attic Pin skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add nishikantaray/attic-pin-2 in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Attic Pin safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Attic Pin?

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Is Attic Pin free to use?

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Who published Attic Pin?

NishikantaRay (@nishikantaray) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Attic Pin by nishikantaray — Agent Skill

Name: Attic Pin
Author: NishikantaRay

Attic Pin

Pin an attic item so it is always injected into new sessions and never trimmed when the index outgrows its budget. Use when the user says "pin this", "always remember this", "keep this in context", or when an item is a long-lived architectural decision or constraint that must survive. Use --unpin to reverse it.

NishikantaRay Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Pin an attic item

First, in the same shell command as anything below, locate the script:

ATTIC_JS=$(ls -d "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"/plugins/cache/attic/attic/*/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js "$HOME"/.agents/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js .agents/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)

node "$ATTIC_JS" pin $ARGUMENTS

Pinned items occupy a reserved share of the injected index, so they survive even when hundreds of newer items exist. That budget is finite: pin the handful of things that must always be in context, not everything important.

Good candidates: an architectural decision the whole project depends on, a constraint that is easy to forget, the location of something non-obvious.

Bad candidates: a finding about code that changes weekly, anything already obvious from the repository.

Reply in one line with what was pinned and the current pinned count from /attic-index. If the user is pinning a fifth or later item, say plainly that the pinned tier is small and ask which one should be unpinned.

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