status

A command for displaying the mnemonic system's configuration, directories, version-control state, and usage statistics. Version control records changes to files over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check user and project memory locations, detect the current project context, and inspect whether memory data is tracked with Git.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether mnemonic memory is installed and configured for the current organization and project. It also makes problems with memory directories or stored changes easier to spot.

Command

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 commands/modeled-information-format/mnemonic/status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modeled-information-format/mnemonic
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,944 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00008 $0.01944
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00972
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00194

Measured 2d ago against content hash bbcfa678f0cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

status scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

SEMANTIC=$(find "$HOME/.claude/mnemonic" -path "*/_semantic/*" -name "*.memory.md" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
commands/status.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory

Search first: /mnemonic:search {relevant_keywords} Capture after: /mnemonic:capture {namespace} "{title}"

Run /mnemonic:list --namespaces to see available namespaces from loaded ontologies.

/mnemonic:status

Display status and statistics for the mnemonic memory system.

Procedure

Step 1: Detect Context

ORG=$(git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null | sed -E 's|.*[:/]([^/]+)/[^/]+\.git$|\1|' | sed 's|\.git$||')
[ -z "$ORG" ] && ORG="default"

PROJECT=$(basename "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null)
[ -z "$PROJECT" ] && PROJECT=$(basename "$PWD")

Step 2: Check Installation

echo "=== Mnemonic Status ==="
echo ""

echo "Configuration:"
echo "  Organization: $ORG"
echo "  Project: $PROJECT"
echo ""

# Check directories
echo "Directories:"
if [ -d "$HOME/.claude/mnemonic" ]; then
    echo "  ✓ User mnemonic: ${MNEMONIC_ROOT}/"
else
    echo "  ✗ User mnemonic: NOT FOUND"
fi

if [ -d "./.claude/mnemonic" ]; then
    echo "  ✓ Project mnemonic:"
else
    echo "  ✗ Project mnemonic: NOT FOUND"
fi
echo ""

Step 3: Git Status

echo "Version Control:"
if [ -d "$HOME/.claude/mnemonic/.git" ]; then
    cd "$HOME/.claude/mnemonic"
    BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null)
    COMMITS=$(git rev-list --count HEAD 2>/dev/null)
    UNCOMMITTED=$(git status --short 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
    cd - > /dev/null

    echo "  ✓ Git initialized"
    echo "    Branch: $BRANCH"
    echo "    Commits: $COMMITS"
    echo "    Uncommitted changes: $UNCOMMITTED"
else
    echo "  ✗ Git: NOT INITIALIZED"
fi
echo ""

Step 4: Memory Counts

echo "Memory Counts by Cognitive Type:"
SEMANTIC=$(find "$HOME/.claude/mnemonic" -path "*/_semantic/*" -name "*.memory.md" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
EPISODIC=$(find "$HOME/.claude/mnemonic" -path "*/_episodic/*" -name "*.memory.md" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
PROCEDURAL=$(find "$HOME/.claude/mnemonic" -path "*/_procedural/*" -name "*.memory.md" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
echo "  _semantic: $SEMANTIC"
echo "  _episodic: $EPISODIC"
echo "  _procedural: $PROCEDURAL"
echo "  TOTAL: $((SEMANTIC + EPISODIC + PROCEDURAL))"
echo ""

echo "Memory Counts by Namespace:"
TOTAL=0
for ns in _semantic/decisions _semantic/knowledge _semantic/entities \
          _episodic/incidents _episodic/sessions _episodic/blockers \
          _procedural/runbooks _procedural/patterns _procedural/migrations; do
    count=$(find "$HOME/.claude/mnemonic" -path "*/$ns/*" -name "*.memory.md" 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
    TOTAL=$((TOTAL + count))
    [ "$count" -gt 0 ] && echo "  $ns: $count"
done
echo ""

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 212 lines · 8 tokens per session scan B bbcfa678f0cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status is a command published in the GitHub repository modeled-information-format/mnemonic (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 1,944 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.