Documenting 77 Skills: Why I Finally Organized Memstack's Core Skills

Had one of those satisfying documentation days where everything finally clicks into place.

I've been putting off properly organizing Memstack's skill reference docs, and today I finally tackled the elephant in the room: those 17 "Core" skills that are the backbone of every workflow but weren't properly categorized anywhere.

You know how it is with documentation - you start with good intentions, then features keep shipping, and suddenly your skill count is off by two and scattered across different files. Classic.

What I Actually Did

Added a proper "Core (17)" section to the SKILL-REFERENCE.md with all the foundational skills: Diary, Echo, Work, State, Project, Verify, Governor, Grimoire, Compress, Humanize, Forge, Familiar, Scan, Quill, Shard, Sight, and KDP Format.

These are the workflow-backbone skills that get used in pretty much every session, so it made sense to put them at the top and give them their own category.

Also updated all the marketing copy from "75+ skills across 9 categories" to "77 skills across 10 categories" - both in the Pro docs and the free version's README.

The Little Things That Matter

What I love about this kind of work is how it reveals the inconsistencies you didn't even know were bothering you. The free README already had all 17 skills listed in detail (of course it did), but the upsell count was wrong. The MCP skill index was at 77 but the docs said 75+.

Now everything's in sync and I can stop having that nagging feeling that something's off.

Up Next

Still need to check the marketing site for any stale "75+" references, but that's tomorrow's problem. For now, I'm calling this a win.

Sometimes the best coding sessions are just making sure your documentation doesn't lie to people.