From loam
Activate Loam's learning loop — autonomous skills, persistent memory, cross-session search. Triggered when discussing skill authoring, agent memory, persistence, or long-running engineering work.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/loam:loamThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Port of Hermes Agent's learning loop: reusable skills from solved problems, facts persisted across sessions, FTS5 search of past sessions.
Port of Hermes Agent's learning loop: reusable skills from solved problems, facts persisted across sessions, FTS5 search of past sessions.
Check whether mcp__loam__memory is in your available tools.
If absent — discovery-only install. Tell the user:
Loam's discovery skill is installed but the learning loop requires the full plugin. Run
/plugin marketplace add markangler/Loamthen/plugin install loam@loamto activate hooks, MCP server, and slash commands.
Stop. Do not attempt Loam workflows until the plugin is installed.
If present — full install. Use the loop as follows.
mcp__loam__memoryuser for facts about the human; memory for project notes.add new entries; replace to correct (substring-match old_text); remove to retire stale facts.capacity error, consolidate before retrying — do not silently drop.mcp__loam__skill_managecreate to capture it.patch (old_string/new_string). Prefer patch over edit — token-efficient, and edit warns on skills larger than ~4K tokens.<project>/.claude/skills/agent-authored/.mcp__loam__session_searchSee PRD §3.1–§3.5 for full semantics.
npx claudepluginhub markangler/loam --plugin loamCreates, edits, and optimizes skills for Claude Code, including drafting, evaluating with test prompts, iterating on performance, and improving skill descriptions for better triggering accuracy.