mindpalacelisted
Install: claude install-skill aashutosh396/mindpalace-skill
# mindpalace — resource-first knowledge vault
A layout and a set of rules that let an AI agent build a durable second brain instead of
re-learning your world every session.
The core idea: **shared resources live in dedicated files that many projects reference —
never duplicated.** One server, one file. One client account, one file. Projects are thin
pointers that link to them. A credential exists in exactly one place, so rotating it is a
one-file edit, not a grep-and-pray.
This file is the whole skill. It is host-agnostic — see `README.md` for how to load it into
Claude Code, Claude.ai, the OpenAI Agents SDK, Cursor, or any harness that can read a
markdown instruction file.
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## Location
Resolve the vault root in this order:
1. `$MINDPALACE_VAULT`, if set
2. `~/.mindpalace/vault/` — the default, and the same path the full mindpalace tool uses
3. A `vault/` or `mindpalace/` directory in the current project
If none exists, offer to create one (see **Bootstrapping** below). Never guess a path and
never scatter files outside the resolved root.
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## Mental model
```
infra/<resource>.md ← one file per server, hosting plan, DNS zone, CI runner
accounts/<owner>.md ← one file per party — a client, or yourself
projects/<slug>.md ← THIN pointer; frontmatter links to infra + accounts
runbooks/<verb>-<x>.md ← repeatable procedures
docs/<type>/ ← dated artifacts: PDFs, diagrams, exports, notes
README.md ← indexes of every resource, acco