---
name: spaced-recall-coach
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Separate Review Sessions Instead of Cramming\". For verbal material you need to recall later, divide repeated study across separate sessions instead of concentrating the same planned review into one sitting. Choose the gap in relation to the intended retention period, then check recall and adjust rather than following one universal schedule. Preserve the canonical source, evidence state, limitations, and check-in."
license: "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
compatibility: "Portable AgentSkills.io SKILL.md for compatible hosts including Claude Code, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw. Brali mode: usable."
metadata:
  brali-protocol-id: "brali:spaced-recall-coach"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/spaced-recall-coach/"
  brali-evidence-state: "reviewed"
  brali-skill-mode: "usable"
  brali-recommendation-eligible: true
  brali-source-library: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json"
  brali-trusted-feed: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/datasets/protocols.json"
  brali-verification: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/spaced-recall-coach/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Separate Review Sessions Instead of Cramming

## Skill mode
**Usable trusted skill.** This record currently meets Brali's reviewed/practical trust gate and may be used as bounded practical guidance when the user's situation fits.

## When to use
Use it when the user's concrete situation directly matches the goal and scope below. Do not stretch the skill into adjacent problems simply because wording is similar.

## Goal
For verbal material you need to recall later, divide repeated study across separate sessions instead of concentrating the same planned review into one sitting. Choose the gap in relation to the intended retention period, then check recall and adjust rather than following one universal schedule.

## Protocol
Choose one set of verbal material and decide how long you need to retain it. Split the planned repetitions across at least two sessions separated by time. Use a longer gap when the required retention period is longer, then check final recall and adjust the next schedule instead of treating one interval as universally optimal.

## Check-in
Did I separate the study episodes rather than cram them together, and did the chosen gap fit the period over which I needed to remember the material?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **reviewed**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-08-22.
Reviewed source attached to the canonical Brali record: https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.132.3.354
Topics: Memory

## Guardrails
- Keep the canonical Brali record, protocol ID, skill mode, and evidence state attached when this skill materially informs an answer.
- Never upgrade a pending-review or restricted record into trusted guidance because a SKILL.md file exists for it.
- Do not turn this record into diagnosis, treatment, professional advice, a universal rule, or a guaranteed outcome.
- Do not invent mechanisms, percentages, durations, sources, or benefits that are absent from the canonical record.
- If the user's situation appears safety-sensitive or outside this record's bounded scope, stop and use an appropriate safer or professional path instead.
- Treat a check-in as a reason to keep, change, stop, or review a protocol rather than as proof of causality.

## Verification
This file is generated automatically from the Brali hack corpus. Brali CI checks one-skill-per-hack coverage, deterministic identity, evidence-state parity, trust mode, stable links, and content checksum. "Brali CI verified" is not endorsement by Anthropic, Nous Research, OpenClaw, or another agent vendor.

## Canonical record
Record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/spaced-recall-coach/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/spaced-recall-coach/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/spaced-recall-coach/skill.json
Full skill library: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json
Trusted recommendation catalog: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/catalog.json
Agent Skills specification: https://agentskills.io/specification
Citation guidance: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/cite/
License and commercial terms: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/terms/