csm-governance

csm-governance is a command for Claude Code from NovasPlace/CSM. It costs 15 tokens per session (229 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for reviewing and organising stored project memories by finding duplicates, possible candidates, and items that may be archived.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for generating memory reports and, after explicit approval, merging matching or superseded entries without deleting the originals.
Why use it?
It helps prevent project memory from becoming repetitive, outdated, or difficult to manage.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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

Good fit It is for generating memory reports and, after explicit approval, merging matching or superseded entries without deleting the originals.

Compare 6 commands from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/novasplace/csm/csm-governance
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.

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.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for csm-governance

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/novasplace/csm/csm-governance/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/novasplace/csm/csm-governance)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/novasplace/csm/csm-governance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/novasplace/csm/csm-governance/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for csm-governance

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/novasplace/csm/csm-governance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/novasplace/csm/csm-governance.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 229 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 $0.00015 $0.00229
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00114
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00023

Measured 10d ago against content hash d6805a656d5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

csm-governance 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.

plugins/cross-session-memory/commands/csm-governance.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Run CSM memory governance $ARGUMENTS.

  1. Resolve projectRoot to the current workspace root.
  2. Start read-only: csm_memory_governance_report, csm_memory_dedup_detect, csm_memory_candidate_report, and csm_memory_archive_candidate_report.
  3. Present the findings and a recommended plan first.
  4. Treat csm_memory_merge as a mutation — perform merges (exact-match, superseding, never deleting originals) only when the user explicitly approves the specific candidates. For deep governance work, consider delegating to the csm-archivist agent.
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 · 13 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A d6805a656d5d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

csm-governance is a command published in the GitHub repository NovasPlace/CSM (42 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 229 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.