mb-doctor

mb-doctor is a command for Claude Code from mrvladd-d/memobank. It costs 18 tokens per session (2,249 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A readiness check for a repository’s Memory Bank, the files that record tasks and project state, before autonomous or autopilot work continues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run human-readable or JSON checks in default or strict mode and identify missing task or scheduler readiness information.
Why use it?
It shows whether the stored project information and task queue are complete enough for safe unattended execution. Strict mode treats an empty task queue as a failure.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/mb-doctor.mjs.

Good fit Use it to run human-readable or JSON checks in default or strict mode and identify missing task or scheduler readiness information.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrvladd-d/memobank
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mrvladd-d/memobank/mb-doctor

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,249 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00018 $0.02249
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00225

Measured 10d ago against content hash a6fefdaf09ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mb-doctor 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 10d 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.

skills/_shared/references/commands/mb-doctor.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/mb-doctor — Memory Bank readiness doctor

Objective

Answer one question:

Can autonomous/autopilot execution continue safely from the current Memory Bank state?

mb-doctor is a readiness gate over mb-lint. It does not replace /review, /verify, or /red-verify.

Command

Use the repository-provided script:

node scripts/mb-doctor.mjs
node scripts/mb-doctor.mjs --strict
node scripts/mb-doctor.mjs --json
node scripts/mb-doctor.mjs --strict --json

If the repository exposes another documented wrapper for the same script, use that wrapper.

Modes

  • Default mode: health report for humans and interactive work. A fresh skeleton with an empty .memory-bank/tasks/index.json is valid and reports TASK_INDEX_EMPTY as info.
  • Strict mode: post-queue autonomous/autopilot readiness gate. Empty .memory-bank/tasks/index.json is an error because there is no executable task queue.
  • JSON mode: machine-readable report for schedulers and agents.

Default mode may emit warnings for incomplete scheduler readiness evidence that should be fixed before unattended execution. These warnings do not invalidate KISS manual closure. Strict mode promotes those readiness gaps to errors where autonomous/autopilot progression would be unsafe.

Use --strict before /autopilot or the scheduler phase of /autonomous, before each task-selection pass, and after each /mb-sync before promoting dependents or declaring success.

Status transitions have two modes. In scheduler mode, /autopilot and /autonomous own closure/failure/blocking decisions, T2/T3 scheduler closure requires VERDICT: PASS plus SEMANTIC_VERDICT: semantic-pass, and T3 scheduler closure also requires exact HUMAN_CHECKPOINT: done and ROLLBACK_RECOVERY_NOTE: present. In manual mode, /verify PASS may close only T0/T1 with explicit closure ownership; T2/T3 require /red-verify SEMANTIC_VERDICT: semantic-pass before final closure//mb-sync.

Required checks

mb-doctor must check only readiness-critical conditions:

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 10d ago First seen · 161 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A a6fefdaf09ac

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mb-doctor is a command published in the GitHub repository mrvladd-d/memobank (55 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 2,249 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.