ai-memory routing install

Use this skill when the user wants ai-memory's agent-facing routing instructions or managed Agent Skills installed, refreshed, repaired, or removed.

Tools in this cluster

• memory_install_self_routing returns the canonical markered instruction block, marker strings, filename hints, notes, and managed skill payloads for agents that cannot let the MCP server write the host filesystem directly. Pass compact: true when managed Agent Skills are installed or when refreshing a file that already uses the compact snippet.

Managed instruction marker

The always-loaded instruction block is owned by ai-memory only between these markers.

• Start marker: <!-- ai-memory:start -->
• End marker: <!-- ai-memory:end -->

Refresh must replace the first complete marker-bounded block whose start and end delimiters appear alone on their own lines, preserving unrelated content before and after it. Ignore inline mentions of marker strings inside prose or code; they are not delimiters. If no complete line-delimited block exists, append the canonical block with one blank line of separation. Never edit unrelated instructions while refreshing ai-memory routing.

Managed skill marker

Every ai-memory-managed SKILL.md file contains this ownership marker.

<!-- ai-memory-managed: routing-skill -->

Installers and uninstallers should overwrite or remove same-name skill files only when that marker is present, unless the user supplied an explicit force option. If a same-name skill lacks the marker, skip it with an actionable message so user-authored skills are preserved.

Global Grok installs also write $GROK_HOME/rules/ai-memory-handoff.md (default ~/.grok/rules/ai-memory-handoff.md) with the ownership marker <!-- ai-memory-managed: grok-handoff-rule -->. Overwrite or uninstall that file only when the marker is present, unless the user supplied --force. Project-scope Grok skill installs leave that user rule alone.

Skill install targets

Managed skills are ordinary Agent Skills. Their relative file path is <skill>/SKILL.md, and the installer prepends the selected skill root.

Project-local targets:

• .claude/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for Claude-compatible installs.
• .agents/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for cross-client installs.
• .grok/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for Grok Build CLI installs.
• .github/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for GitHub Copilot CLI installs.

Global targets:

• ~/.claude/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for Claude-compatible installs.
• ~/.agents/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for cross-client installs.
• $GROK_HOME/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for Grok Build CLI installs (default:
  ~/.grok/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md).
• $COPILOT_HOME/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md for GitHub Copilot CLI installs
  (default: ~/.copilot/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md).

Use platform-aware path joining. Do not build paths by string concatenation.

Refresh guidance

For an agent-side refresh, call the install-routing tool (pass compact: true if the target file already uses the compact snippet or if managed Agent Skills handle detailed routing). Its returned target_hints are authoritative for skill roots: choose the right instruction filename from agent_filenames, write the markered block with the agent's file-edit tool, and write each managed skill file below the selected hint using its relative_path. Claude Code normally uses CLAUDE.md and .claude/skills; Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and AGENTS-aware clients normally use AGENTS.md and .agents/skills; Grok Build CLI uses AGENTS.md and .grok/skills; GitHub Copilot CLI uses AGENTS.md and .github/skills unless the project says otherwise.

For a CLI refresh, prefer the canonical install command. The snippet and skills must be updated from the same core-owned assets so they do not drift.