Tacit.memorize

tacit Memorize — Session → Knowledge Entry

Save the current conversation as a structured knowledge entry to ~/.tacit/memory/<category>/YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.md.

Process

Step 1 — Analyze the conversation

Read the current conversation and extract:

• title: A concise title (≤ 100 chars) capturing the main topic — write in the conversation's language
• category: A single English word describing the domain (e.g. dev, meeting, learning, design, ideas, debugging) — always English
• keywords: 5–10 search terms to maximize lexical recall in tacit search. Include:
  • Synonyms and related concepts in the conversation's language plus English equivalents
  • Abbreviations and alternative phrasings someone might search for
  • Specific names: tools, methods, people, places mentioned
• summary: Bullet list of key insights, decisions, and learnings — write in the conversation's language
• content: Detailed notes — background, context, rationale, specifics — write in the conversation's language

If the user provided a hint with the command (e.g. /tacit.memorize skill development), use it to guide the title and category.

Step 2 — Determine the file path

Run the following to get a timestamp:

date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S

Also get the current timezone offset for created_at:

date +%z

Build the paths:

• CATEGORY_DIR = ~/.tacit/memory/<category>
• FILE_PATH = ~/.tacit/memory/<category>/YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.md

Create the directory:

mkdir -p ~/.tacit/memory/<category>

Step 3 — Write the file

Write the file using the Write tool at the exact path from Step 2. Use this format:

---
title: "<title>"
category: "<category>"
created_at: "<YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:MM>"
keywords: ["<keyword1>", "<keyword2>", ...]
---

<summary — bullet list of key points>

---

<content — detailed notes, background, context>

Format rules:

• title and category must be quoted strings in the YAML frontmatter
• created_at must be ISO 8601 with timezone offset (e.g. "2026-04-02T15:04:05+09:00")
• keywords must be a JSON-style inline array of quoted strings on one line
• Summary and content are plain Markdown (no YAML)
• Separate frontmatter from summary with ---\n\n (blank line after)
• Separate summary from content with \n\n---\n\n (blank lines around)

Step 4 — Report

Print the saved file path so the user can verify:

Saved to: ~/.tacit/memory/<category>/YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.md

Important

• Write to the absolute path (expand ~ to the actual home directory path)
• Do NOT fabricate or embellish — only record what actually appeared in the conversation
• Summary = concise takeaways; Content = full detail
• Categories are single-level, no slashes (e.g. dev not dev/backend)
• The entry will automatically appear in tacit list and tacit search — no additional steps needed