memsync CLAUDE.md

Project instructions for memsync, a command-line tool that keeps Claude Code’s shared memory file synchronized across computers using existing cloud drives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them as a starting guide when building or modifying memsync.
Why use it?
They give the agent the project structure, design decisions, existing code, and known risks it needs before changing the code.

Instructions file

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 instructions/edgecaser/memsync/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EdgeCaser/memsync
Per session 894 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 894 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00894 $0.00894
Opus 5 $0.00447 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00179 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00089 $0.00089

Measured yesterday against content hash b32360408611, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memsync 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 yesterday.

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 · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

memsync — Project Context for Claude Code

You are building memsync, a cross-platform CLI tool that maintains a global identity-layer memory file for Claude Code users, synced across machines via cloud storage they already have (OneDrive, iCloud Drive, Google Drive).

This document is your entry point. Read all linked documents before writing any code.


Document map

File What it contains
CLAUDE.md This file — start here
ARCHITECTURE.md Full system design, module map, data flow
PROVIDERS.md Provider plugin system — BaseProvider ABC, all three implementations
CONFIG.md Config file design, schema, platform paths
COMMANDS.md Every CLI command — args, behavior, edge cases
EXISTING_CODE.md Working prototype code — use this as the base, not a reference
PITFALLS.md Known issues, trust boundaries, things that have already gone wrong
REPO.md Repository structure, CI, PyPI, GitHub conventions
STYLE.md Code style, naming conventions, what good looks like here

Read them in this order:

  1. ARCHITECTURE.md — understand the shape of the system
  2. EXISTING_CODE.md — understand what already works
  3. PROVIDERS.md — the most important new piece
  4. CONFIG.md — feeds into everything
  5. PITFALLS.md — read before touching sync.py or providers
  6. COMMANDS.md, REPO.md, STYLE.md — as needed

What this project is

memsync solves a specific problem: Claude Code has no memory between sessions. The standard fix is ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, but it drifts, bloats, and doesn't sync across machines.

memsync maintains one canonical GLOBAL_MEMORY.md in your cloud sync folder. At session start, Claude Code reads it via a symlink (Mac/Linux) or copy (Windows) at ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. After meaningful sessions, the user runs memsync refresh --notes "..." and the Claude API merges the notes in.

This is the identity layer — who the user is, what they're working on, standing preferences. Not project docs. Not cold storage. Not a knowledge base.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. yesterday First seen · 93 lines · 894 tokens per session scan A b32360408611

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memsync CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository EdgeCaser/memsync (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 894 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 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 2026-08-31.

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