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id: 91c40eb9-da33-4dcd-97bb-d34cf06f349a
type: decision
title: "Cognitive Memory SKILL.md updated to emphasize proactive edge creation"
tags: [cognitive-memory, edges, skill-documentation, rag]
importance: 0.7
confidence: 0.8
created: "2026-02-20T05:39:41.844783+00:00"
updated: "2026-02-20T05:39:41.844783+00:00"
---

# Cognitive Memory SKILL.md: Proactive Edge Creation Updates

## Changes Made

Updated `~/.claude/skills/cognitive-memory/SKILL.md` with three targeted changes to promote edge usage:

1. **New workflow pattern #8** — "Create Edges Between Related Memories" covering all 7 relation types (SOLVES, CAUSES, BUILDS_ON, ALTERNATIVE_TO, REQUIRES, FOLLOWS, RELATED_TO), CLI and MCP examples, graph traversal patterns, and a "when to create edges" guide.

2. **Updated workflow pattern #1** — "Store a Bug Fix" now shows how to relate the solution memory to its problem memory using a SOLVES edge immediately after storing.

3. **Added proactive trigger #11** — Create edges after storing memories, with rationale about enriching RAG retrieval context.

## Motivation

Upcoming RAG server implementation needs rich graph context to surface relevant memories during retrieval. Edges provide relationship signal that pure vector similarity misses.