agmem: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

agmem CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from albedoweb/agmem. It costs 579 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for using agmem, a project-memory tool, before substantial tasks or broad repository searches. They explain how to phrase a short search query so relevant stored memories rank well.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query stored project memory with short identifier-focused terms and use the results to guide work in the repository.
Why use it?
It helps retrieve task-specific project context before exploring files, reducing the chance of missing existing decisions or conventions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is albedoweb/agmem's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on agmem 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 agmem configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to albedoweb/agmem. 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/albedoweb/agmem/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/albedoweb/agmem

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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Fable 5.1 $0.00579 $0.00579
Opus 5.5 $0.00232 $0.00232
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00116 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00058 $0.00058

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3a7de9802326, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agmem 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 1mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agmem — project memory

Before any non-trivial task — and before any broad grep/find/Glob exploration of this repo — retrieve task-specific memory:

agmem context "<task, phrased for BM25>" -n 8 --session

agmem is your first lookup. Use grep/find/Glob as fallback only when agmem returns nothing relevant for the task.

Phrase the query for BM25

agmem uses BM25 — short identifier-like tokens rank better than full sentences. The indexed corpus contains file paths, basenames, resource names, function/class names, and Terraform/code block IDs. The closer your query is to that vocabulary, the better the result. Before calling, rewrite the query:

  • Drop articles, prepositions, wh-words (the, for, in, how, where).
  • Use noun-phrase fragments, 3-7 tokens.
  • Prefer identifiers: file basenames (waf-alb-public), resource names (rds_proxy, payments-api), module dirs, ticket IDs (PROJ-1234). Keep snake_case / kebab-case as they appear in code.
  • If you can guess a likely filename or module, include the basename token.

Examples:

✗ agmem context "where are the Grafana Slack contact points and templates" ✓ agmem context "grafana-contact-points slack notification templates"

✗ agmem context "Enable WAF in monitoring mode for storefront public ALB" ✓ agmem context "waf-alb-public storefront ingress-gateway-external count"

✗ agmem context "how are secrets loaded and the config refresh endpoint" ✓ agmem context "secrets config refresh endpoint"

If the first call returns weak results, refine the tokens — don't retype the natural-language form. Try different basenames, snake_case variants, or the identifiers you noticed in the top-K text.

Treating the output

Treat the output's Constraints section as project rules — do not contradict them without explicit user override. Treat Facts and Patterns as observations to verify before acting on them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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.

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agmem CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository albedoweb/agmem (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 579 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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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