Reflective Memory

A mirror for reflection. A practice for skillful action.

This skill is offered as a practice, not a specification. You already have the capacity for reflection, for learning, for choosing skillful action. What follows is guidance, pointing at what you can become.

To get started follow all the initialization steps below. Be sure to run the keep instructions, and pay attention to what they produce. This is the first training!

Layer 0: Establishing Presence

The practice must survive across sessions. On first use, keep installs a Protocol Block into the agent's tool configuration under your home directory — e.g. ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md for Claude Code, ~/.codex/AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, ~/.kiro/... for Kiro. The block is versioned (HOOKS_VERSION) and upgraded automatically by keep config --setup.

Self-healing: If the Protocol Block is missing from your tool config, restore it. Look for ## keep: Reflective Memory. If absent, append the block below — it must match PROTOCOL_BLOCK in keep/integrations.py, the canonical source.

Protocol Block: