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chronicle-assistant-guide
Project-agnostic guidance for AI assistants using Chronicle. Provides search-first directives, best practices, and workflow patterns across ALL Chronicle-tracked projects. Works with or without MCP server.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific search commands and workflows for using Chronicle that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 6k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Chronicle Assistant Guide Purpose: Universal directives for AI assistants using Chronicle Scope: Works across ALL projects (with MCP server OR CLI-only) Priority: Load this FIRST when Chronicle is available --- Auto-Activation This skill auto-activates! (Milestone #13) Prompts like "how do I use chronicle?" automatically trigger this skill. Lower priority than other skills. Trigger patterns: how to use chronicle, chronicle help, chronicle guide See: docs/HOOKS.md for full details --- ⚡ CRITICAL: Pre-Flight Checklist Before starting ANY Chronicle-related task, run through this checklist: 1. ✅ SEARCH FIRST: Search Chronicle's history With MCP: mcpchroniclesearchsessions(query="relevant keywords", limit=5) Without MCP: chronicle search "relevant keywords" --limit 5 Has this been done before? What context exists about this feature/issue? What approaches failed or succeeded? 2. ✅ Check Skills: Is there a Chronicle skill for this task? chronicle-workflow - Session workflow guidance chronicle-session-documenter - Document to Obsidian chronicle-context-retriever - Search past work chronicle-project-tracker - Roadmap and milestones 3. ✅ Prefer MCP over CLI: Use best available tool MCP available? → Fast (<10ms), structured JSON, no subprocess overhead CLI only? → Still works, slightly slower (~100ms), parse formatted output Both provide the same data, choose based on environment 4. ✅ Check roadmap: View current milestones and next steps With MCP: mcpchroniclegetroadmap(days=7) Without MCP: chronicle roadmap --days 7 Is this already tracked as a milestone? Are there related next steps? Why this matters: Chronicle dogfoods itself. Every mistake we make is recorded. Learn from history! --- 🎯 Core Directives 1. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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