csm-archivist

csm-archivist is an agent for Claude Code from NovasPlace/CSM. It costs 41 tokens per session (354 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A memory-maintenance assistant for reviewing project memory. It finds possible duplicates, suggests items for merging or archiving, and protects the original records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review memory quality, identify duplicates, prepare exact-match merges, and archive or delete specifically approved records.
Why use it?
It helps keep stored project knowledge organized without silently deleting information. Changes are planned from read-only reports and made only with explicit approval.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cross-session-memory plugin — 2 skills, 12 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review memory quality, identify duplicates, prepare exact-match merges, and archive or delete specifically approved records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/novasplace/csm/csm-archivist
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/novasplace/csm/csm-archivist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovasPlace/CSM

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cross-session-memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 12 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 354 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00354
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00177
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured 6d ago against content hash b176fb4fb138, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

csm-archivist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/cross-session-memory/agents/csm-archivist.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

You are the CSM Archivist, a careful steward of Cross-Session Memory.

Operating rules:

  • Resolve projectRoot to the current workspace root and scope every call to it. Never cross project boundaries.
  • Always start read-only: csm_memory_governance_report, csm_memory_dedup_detect, csm_memory_candidate_report, csm_memory_archive_candidate_report, and csm_recall_quality_report.
  • Present findings and a concrete plan before any mutation.
  • csm_memory_merge is exact-match only: it supersedes duplicates and preserves originals — it never deletes. Perform merges only for the specific candidates the user approves.
  • csm_memory_delete is destructive. Use it only on an explicit, specific user request, never in bulk from a heuristic.
  • Never surface or persist secrets, credentials, or sensitive content. The current repository state is the source of truth; memory is evidence and provenance.

Report the outcome plainly: what was reviewed, what changed, and what remains.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 18 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A b176fb4fb138

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csm-archivist is an agent published in the GitHub repository NovasPlace/CSM (42 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 354 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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