memory-review

A command that displays the current state of project memory files, including timestamps, file sizes, and indicators of outdated content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the .claude/memory and documentation directories and decide what memory needs updating, removing, or moving.
Why use it?
It helps reveal missing, stale, or oversized memory files before they make project context less reliable.

Command

Part of the memory plugin — 6 commands shipped together

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/stefan-jansen/claude-code-toolkit/memory-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-jansen/claude-code-toolkit

Or install memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 commands.

Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,410 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 $0.00014 $0.01410
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00705
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00141

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2f4605587886, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-review 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 3d 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/memory/commands/memory-review.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Review

Display comprehensive view of current memory state to support active memory maintenance.

What This Command Does

Show current memory files with metadata to help identify what needs updating, removing, or relocating.

#!/bin/bash

# Constants
MEMORY_DIR=".claude/memory"
DOCUMENTATION_DIR=".claude/documentation"
STALENESS_THRESHOLD=30
SIZE_LIMIT=5120
CURRENT_DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

# Check if memory directory exists
if [[ ! -d "$MEMORY_DIR" ]]; then
    echo "❌ No memory directory found at $MEMORY_DIR"
    echo "💡 Run /memory-update to create initial memory structure"
    exit 1
fi

echo "Memory Review - $CURRENT_DATE"
echo ""

# Function to calculate days since date
days_since() {
    local date_str=$1
    if [[ -z "$date_str" ]] || [[ "$date_str" == "N/A" ]]; then
        echo "999"
        return
    fi
    local date_epoch=$(date -d "$date_str" +%s 2>/dev/null || date -j -f "%Y-%m-%d" "$date_str" "+%s" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
    local current_epoch=$(date +%s)
    local diff_days=$(( (current_epoch - date_epoch) / 86400 ))
    echo $diff_days
}

# Analyze memory files
echo "📁 Memory Files ($MEMORY_DIR/):"

total_size=0
fresh_count=0
stale_count=0
oversized_count=0
file_count=0

for file in "$MEMORY_DIR"/*.md; do
    if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then
        filename=$(basename "$file")
        size=$(stat -c%s "$file" 2>/dev/null || stat -f%z "$file" 2>/dev/null)
        size_human=$(numfmt --to=iec-i --suffix=B $size 2>/dev/null || echo "${size} bytes")

        # Extract last validated date
        last_validated=$(grep -oP "Last (validated|updated).*?(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})" "$file" | tail -1 | grep -oP "\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}" || echo "N/A")

        status="✅"
        note=""

        # Check staleness
        if [[ "$last_validated" != "N/A" ]]; then
            days=$(days_since "$last_validated")
            if [[ $days -gt $STALENESS_THRESHOLD ]]; then
                status="🔴"
                note="(Stale: $days days)"
                stale_count=$((stale_count + 1))
            elif [[ $days -gt 7 ]]; then
                status="⚠️"
                note="(Aging: $days days)"
                stale_count=$((stale_count + 1))
            else
                note="(Fresh)"
                fresh_count=$((fresh_count + 1))
            fi
        else
            status="⚠️"
            note="(No timestamp)"
            stale_count=$((stale_count + 1))
        fi

        # Check size
        if [[ $size -gt $SIZE_LIMIT ]]; then
            status="⚠️"
            note="$note (Oversized: >5KB)"
            oversized_count=$((oversized_count + 1))
        fi

        printf "  %s %-25s %-12s %-20s %s\n" "$status" "$filename" "$size_human" "$last_validated" "$note"

        total_size=$((total_size + size))
        file_count=$((file_count + 1))
    fi
done

echo ""

# Analyze documentation files
if [[ -d "$DOCUMENTATION_DIR" ]]; then
    echo "📁 Documentation Files ($DOCUMENTATION_DIR/):"
    for file in "$DOCUMENTATION_DIR"/*.md; do
        if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then
            filename=$(basename "$file")
            size=$(stat -c%s "$file" 2>/dev/null || stat -f%z "$file" 2>/dev/null)
            size_human=$(numfmt --to=iec-i --suffix=B $size 2>/dev/null || echo "${size} bytes")
            created=$(date -r "$file" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || stat -f "%Sm" -t "%Y-%m-%d" "$file" 2>/dev/null || echo "Unknown")
            printf "  ✅ %-25s %-12s Created: %s\n" "$filename" "$size_human" "$created"
        fi
    done
    echo ""
fi

# Summary
total_size_human=$(numfmt --to=iec-i --suffix=B $total_size 2>/dev/null || echo "${total_size} bytes")

echo "📊 Summary:"
echo "  Total memory: $total_size_human ($file_count files)"
echo "  Fresh: $fresh_count files (validated <7 days)"
echo "  Stale: $stale_count files (validated >7 days or no timestamp)"
echo "  Oversized: $oversized_count files (>5KB)"
echo ""

# Recommendations
if [[ $stale_count -gt 0 ]] || [[ $oversized_count -gt 0 ]]; then
    echo "⚠️  Actions Recommended:"
    if [[ $stale_count -gt 0 ]]; then
        echo "  - Review stale files with /memory-update"
        echo "  - Run /memory-gc to clean up stale content"
    fi
    if [[ $oversized_count -gt 0 ]]; then
        echo "  - Split oversized files into smaller modules"
    fi
else
    echo "✅ Memory health: Good"
    echo "   All files are fresh, properly sized, and timestamped"
fi

echo ""
echo "💡 Next steps:"
echo "   - /memory-update  : Update or add memory entries"
echo "   - /memory-gc      : Clean up stale content"
echo "   - /status         : Check overall project health"

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 3d ago First seen · 162 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 2f4605587886

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memory-review is a command published in the GitHub repository stefan-jansen/claude-code-toolkit (85 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,410 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.