agent-memory: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

agent-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from acn-ericlaw/agent-memory. It costs 200 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project instruction file describing a shared Markdown-based memory system and an AI-enablement tool. It tells the agent which memory rules and recent session logs to read.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides memory-related work, requires specific project files and recent logs to be checked, and sets the identity used in session logs.
Why use it?
It gives sessions a consistent protocol for finding prior context and deciding whether work concerns internal memory or another repository.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is acn-ericlaw/agent-memory's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on agent-memory itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agent-memory configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to acn-ericlaw/agent-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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acn-ericlaw/agent-memory/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acn-ericlaw/agent-memory

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 200 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 200 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00200 $0.00200
Opus 5.5 $0.00080 $0.00080
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00020

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 08c780c839ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-memory CLAUDE.md 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 2mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md — agent-memory

Both a shared AI memory layer and an AI-enablement / migration tool — no-code, markdown.

Follow memory/PROTOCOL.md first. Root AGENTS.md is its one-line universal discovery shim. The protocol selects internal-memory work versus AI-enabling another repository.

The protocol and core memory files are imported below, so they are structurally present at session start (presence is guaranteed; attending to them is still the protocol). Imports can't express dynamic paths — still list memory/open-threads/ (read the unchecked thread files) and scan the newest 2–3 logs in memory/sessions/ per the protocol.

@AGENTS.md @memory/PROTOCOL.md @memory/instructions.md @memory/continuity.md @memory/vision.md

Identify yourself as Claude Code in all session logs.

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. 2mo ago Changed · +16 tokens per session 08c780c839ce
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A 6a4e7ec36405

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agent-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository acn-ericlaw/agent-memory (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 200 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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