How does this skill prevent my agent from repeating past mistakes?

This skill acts as a persistent memory for your AI agent, allowing it to search and retrieve documentation of past bugs, architectural decisions, and coding patterns you've already solved before it starts a new task.

Do I need to install anything other than the skill itself?

The skill requires the open-source vir-cli to be installed on your machine, as it reads the distilled notes generated by the CLI from your Claude Code or Codex sessions.

Which AI agents are compatible with this skill?

The skill is designed to work with advanced coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, functioning as a bridge between your local vir-generated knowledge base and the agent's active session.

Is it safe to give the agent access to my notes?

The skill uses a read-only `vir query` command to search your local notes and does not have the permissions to write, move, or delete any of your files.

What happens if the information in my past notes is out of date?

The agent is instructed to prioritize current code; if a note conflicts with the existing codebase, the agent will flag the discrepancy to you rather than following outdated advice.

What exactly is included in this purchase?

You receive the prompt engineering and logic required for your agent to interface with the vir CLI, including the specific instructions for searching, citing, and verifying notes.

vir: Recall Your Past Coding Decisions

Example session with this skill installed

Stripe webhooks are failing signature verification again on the billing service. Have I hit this before? Check my notes before you change anything.

Read your context and instructions
Compiled the vir

I checked your vir notes before touching the code.

Search: vir query "stripe webhook signature verification failing" --json --limit 5, 3 matches above the relevance cutoff. I read the top two.

Note	Type	Project	Date
[[stripe-webhook-raw-body-7c1e9a2f]]	gotcha	billing	2026-06-14
[[express-json-middleware-order-3b8d0e41]]	decision	billing	2026-06-14
[[stripe-cli-local-forwarding-9f2a6c13]]	tool	billing	2026-05-02

What you learned last time ([[stripe-webhook-raw-body-7c1e9a2f]]): signature checks failed because express.json() parsed the body before stripe.webhooks.constructEvent saw it. Stripe signs the raw bytes, so any re-serialized body fails. You fixed it by mounting express.raw({ type: "application/json" }) on the webhook route only.

What you decided ([[express-json-middleware-order-3b8d0e41]]): register the webhook route before the global express.json(), not by excluding paths inside the JSON middleware. That way a new route can't silently break it.

Checked against the current code: src/server.ts now calls app.use(express.json()) on line 18, above the webhook route on line 31. Someone reordered it, so the bug you fixed in June is back.

Next steps

Move the webhook route above express.json(), per your June decision. Waiting for your go-ahead.
Re-test with stripe listen --forward-to localhost:4000/webhooks/stripe ([[stripe-cli-local-forwarding-9f2a6c13]]).
Optional: add a test that posts a signed payload, so the middleware order can't regress again.

I found no notes about webhook secret rotation, so I can't rule that out from your history.

Connects securely to your tools. The creator never sees your data.

About this skill

Your coding agent forgets everything between sessions. You end up re-solving bugs you already fixed and re-opening decisions you already made. This skill lets the agent check your own history first: notes that vir distills from your past Claude Code and Codex sessions.

What it does

Checks before non-trivial work. It searches your notes for decisions, gotchas, patterns and tools related to the task.
Cites its sources. Each note it relies on is linked by name, e.g. [[stripe-webhook-raw-body-7c1e9a2f]], so you can open it.
Prefers your past choices over a fresh default, and says when it's doing so.
Verifies against current code. Notes can be out of date, so when the code disagrees it trusts the code and points out the conflict.
Is honest about misses. "No vir notes on this" instead of invented citations.

Safe by design

Read-only: it never writes, moves or deletes notes.
It never runs anything that spends money or changes state unless you ask.
Searching is free: vir query --json is retrieval only, with no LLM call.
If vir isn't installed, it says so once and gets out of the way.

Requirements

This skill reads notes made by the vir CLI (free, open source, MIT):

npm install -g @djolex999/vir-cli
vir init
vir run

How to use

Skills on Agensi run inside your AI agent. Copy the prompt, paste it into your agent, and it connects to Agensi and installs this skill for you. If a payment is needed, your agent shows it to you first.

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