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title: "Memory Lifecycle - Air Market"
description: "Finished work stays sitting where the active work is, and moving it means touching several things by hand. This handles the transitions: archiving what is done, moving notes between status folders, a…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/memory-lifecycle"
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[Air Market](/) / [Productivity](/category/productivity) / Memory Lifecycle

Skill by [Basic Machines](/@basicmachines-co)

# Memory Lifecycle

Mark things done and have them actually move

## What this does

Finished work stays sitting where the active work is, and moving it means touching several things by hand. This handles the transitions: archiving what is done, moving notes between status folders, and updating the details that go with the move. Reach for it when you are marking things complete or clearing out old entries.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Archive work that is finished
- Move a note from one status to another
- Mark an item complete and have the details follow

## Information

**Memory Lifecycle at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Basic Machines](/@basicmachines-co) |
| Category | [Productivity](/category/productivity) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 6 KB |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Repository | [basicmachines-co/basic-memory](https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/592d2505e12456f7f75132f66e6cf59dc12f33fa/skills/memory-lifecycle) |
| GitHub stars | 3,737 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 1,406, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Memory Lifecycle and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Memory Lifecycle's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 592d2505e12456f7f75132f66e6cf59dc12f33fa |
| Content hash | 3bedbe4dd696f6149eb85147f797bd61687f8c97c29b12964101d800af5b0cad |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/blob/592d2505e12456f7f75132f66e6cf59dc12f33fa/skills/memory-lifecycle/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Memory Lifecycle](/security/memory-lifecycle)

## About Memory Lifecycle

Manages entity status transitions in Basic Memory: archiving completed work, moving notes between status folders, updating frontmatter, and handling the edge cases those moves throw up.

Reach for it when marking items complete, archiving old entities, or running any folder-based status workflow.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Memory Lifecycle safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Memory Lifecycle and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 592d2505e124, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/memory-lifecycle.

### How do I install Memory Lifecycle?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/memory-lifecycle on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/tree/592d2505e12456f7f75132f66e6cf59dc12f33fa/skills/memory-lifecycle. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Productivity listings](/category/productivity)
- [Everything by Basic Machines](/@basicmachines-co)

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