Brali Agent Skill · reviewed · usable

Active Recall: Close the Notes and Make Memory Work

Before rereading, hide the source and try to produce the answer from memory. Then check it, fix the misses, and practice application separately if the real goal is solving, speaking, writing, or doing. Familiarity feels nice; retrieval tells you what is actually available without the page in front of you.

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Portable instruction

What the agent should do

Choose a small set of material you want to retain. Hide the source and answer a question, explain the idea, or write what you remember. Check immediately enough to catch errors and repair them. Then, if success means solving, writing, speaking, calculating, or performing, practice that outcome too. Memory practice is useful; it is not a teleportation device to skill.

Check-in

What could I retrieve without looking? What was missing or wrong? If the real goal is application, could I actually use the knowledge in a relevant task?

Install

One portable file, host-specific location.

Inspect SKILL.md first. The evidence state and skill mode are part of the contract.

Install for normal use.

Claude Code

Drop into a skill folder

Personal: ~/.claude/skills/active-recall-test-yourself/SKILL.md
Project: .claude/skills/active-recall-test-yourself/SKILL.md

Claude Agent Skills docs

Hermes Agent

Install directly from this URL

hermes skills install https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/active-recall-test-yourself/SKILL.md

Hermes skills docs

OpenClaw

Place in a discovered skill root

Workspace: <workspace>/skills/active-recall-test-yourself/SKILL.md
Global: ~/.openclaw/skills/active-recall-test-yourself/SKILL.md

OpenClaw skills docs

Brali verification

Coverage and trust state are checked together.

Canonical ID: brali:active-recall-test-yourself
Evidence state: reviewed
Skill mode: usable
Recommendation eligible: yes
SHA-256: a889eacf905848ccd357edfa12d3edf924e49ea23da1625107a3a2b6a32cbe8d

Brali CI verified. This means identity, state, mode, provenance and file integrity matched the generated corpus. It is not third-party vendor endorsement.

Why every hack gets a skill

Brali keeps a one-to-one machine surface: one hack record, one stable skill identity. Trust state determines what the skill is allowed to do.

License

Original Brali knowledge is available for non-commercial reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Keep attribution, canonical record link, evidence state and skill mode.