Night Market Skill — ported from claude-night-market/memory-palace. For the full experience with agents, hooks, and commands, install the Claude Code plugin.

Table of Contents

• What It Is
• Quick Start
• Mental Model
• When to Use
• Session Palace Templates
• Information Categories
• Core Workflow
• Session Lifecycle
• Detailed Resources
• Integration

Session Palace Builder

Construct temporary, session-specific memory palaces for extended conversations and complex projects. Preserves context across interruptions and enables structured information accumulation.

What It Is

Session palaces are lightweight, temporary memory structures that:

• Preserve context for extended conversations
• Track decisions and their rationale
• Organize project artifacts spatially
• Enable context recovery after interruptions
• Support collaborative information gathering

Quick Start

Build Commands

```bash

Run build

make build

Clean and rebuild

make clean && make build ```

Testing

```bash

Run tests

make test

Run with verbose output

make test VERBOSE=1 ```

Verification: Run

make build && make test

to confirm build works.

When To Use

• Extended conversations requiring context preservation
• Complex, multi-step projects with interrelated components
• Workflows requiring state management across interactions
• Collaborative sessions accumulating information over time
• Code review or debugging sessions with many findings

When NOT To Use

• Permanent knowledge structures needed - use memory-palace-architect
• Searching existing knowledge
  • use knowledge-locator
• Permanent knowledge structures needed - use memory-palace-architect
• Searching existing knowledge
  • use knowledge-locator

Session Palace Templates

Template	Purpose	Key Areas
Workshop	Active development	Workbench, tools, materials
Library	Research and analysis	Stacks, reading room, archives
Council Chamber	Decision-making	Round table, evidence wall, vote board
Observatory	Exploration and discovery	Telescope, star charts, log book
Forge	Implementation tasks	Anvil, cooling rack, finished goods

Information Categories

Organize session content into these standard areas:

• Conversations - Dialogue threads and key exchanges
• Decisions - Choices made with rationale
• Code - Snippets and technical artifacts
• Research - Findings and references
• Requirements - Specifications and constraints
• Progress - Completed milestones
• Issues - Blockers and challenges
• Next Steps - Pending action items

Core Workflow

1. Analyze Context - Assess session scope and complexity
2. Design Palace - Select template and layout
3. Structure State - Organize information spatially
4. Build Navigation - Create access shortcuts
5. Test Integration - Verify context preservation

Session Lifecycle

Create → Populate → Navigate → Export/Archive
   ↑         ↓          ↓
   └─── Checkpoint ←────┘

Verification: Run the command with

--help

flag to verify availability.

Detailed Resources

• Template Details: See

  modules/templates.md

• State Management: See

  modules/templates.md

• Export Patterns: See

  modules/templates.md

Integration

• memory-palace-architect

  - Export important concepts to permanent palaces

• knowledge-locator

  - Search session content

• digital-garden-cultivator

  - Seed garden with session insights

Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Command not found Ensure all dependencies are installed and in PATH

Permission errors Check file permissions and run with appropriate privileges

Unexpected behavior Enable verbose logging with

--verbose

flag