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Scratchpad

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: knowledge-mgmt  ·  Last updated:
Use when any agent needs to write down a decision, observation, error, blocker, or intermediate result during a multi-step workflow so that later agents can read it. This is the cross-agent memory for the current workflow. Trigger on 'note this for later', 'record decision', 'pass context to next agent', 'log observation', 'jot this down', 'write to scratchpad', 'the tester needs to know this', 'subsequent agents need this', 'write down that we chose X', 'log this error for the next step', or any time a discovery, choice, or failure should be visible to downstream workflow steps. Persists in .devt/state/scratchpad.md (append-only, reset between workflows). This is for EPHEMERAL within-workflow notes, NOT for permanent lessons (use lesson-extraction for those), NOT for searching past knowledge (use `memory query`), and NOT for memory-layer maintenance (use memory-curation).

What this skill does

Scratchpad is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the knowledge-mgmt sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/scratchpad/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when any agent needs to write down a decision, observation, error, blocker, or intermediate result during a multi-step workflow so that later agents can read it. This is the cross-agent memory for the current workflow.

Who uses this skill

The Scratchpad Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/scratchpad
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/scratchpad/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/scratchpad/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/scratchpad/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/scratchpad/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\scratchpad\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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