Basic Memory is a local-first knowledge system that stores notes as Markdown files and connects them into a searchable knowledge graph for AI conversations. People and AI assistants use it to preserve project context across Claude, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible clients. The catalogue add-ons provide Basic Memory skills, commands, instructions, MCP integrations, hooks, settings, and a plugin.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to basicmachines-co/basic-memory. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/main/.claude/commands/release/release-check.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memoryWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/release-check)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/release-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/release-check/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/release-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/release-check.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00783 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00313 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00157 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00078 |
Grade A, and why
release-check 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 1mo 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.
The source is not reproduced here
Licensed AGPL-3.0
The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 131 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7dd41a40e95c
release-check is a command published in the GitHub repository basicmachines-co/basic-memory (4,251 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 783 tokens. 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.
Other commands, from other repositories
release
create a release PR (auto-detects previous tag).
release-tag
Create and push a version tag after a release PR has been merged.
rebase_prompt
You are a git rebase assistant. Your job is to rebase the current branch onto origin/ and intelligently resolve any merge conflicts that arise. The repository has already been fetched and the base branch is ; you may assume origin/ is up-to-date.
commit-push-pr
Commit, push, and open a PR (includes changeset creation).
release
Automates the release preparation and CI/CD handoff process.
gsd:ship
Create PR, run review, and prepare for merge after verification passes.