ctx-memory CLAUDE.md

ctx-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from GhadiSaab/ctx-memory. It costs 1,711 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Claude Code instructions for ctx-memory, a fully local memory tool for coding agents. It stores session information in SQLite, lets agents search project context, and builds memory from tool calls and messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or operating ctx-memory across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode. It covers setup, commands, build status, hooks, MCP behavior, and project-memory storage.
Why use it?
It helps new sessions recover what was previously changed, decided, or broken without requiring the developer to explain it again. It also documents how the wrapper and memory pipeline work.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/ghadisaab/ctx-memory/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GhadiSaab/ctx-memory

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Security

Grade A, and why

ctx-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 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.

CLAUDE.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What This Is

A fully local CLI tool giving coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode) persistent memory across sessions. When a new session starts in a project, the agent automatically knows what was worked on before, what decisions were made, what errors were hit, and what files were touched — without re-explaining anything. Zero cloud, zero telemetry. Everything lives in ~/.ctx-memory/store.db.

End-to-end flow:

  1. Shell wrapper intercepts claude (or codex/gemini/opencode), detects project via git remote/path, sets env vars, spawns real agent as child process
  2. MCP server starts alongside — injects a tiny context header (~30 tokens), exposes search_context() and get_project_memory() tools
  3. During session: hooks fire on every tool call (file edits, bash commands, etc.), messages buffered in memory
  4. On session end (clean/Ctrl-C/crash): Layer 1 → Layer 2 → Layer 3 pipeline runs, embedding stored, next session can retrieve all of it

Build Plan Status

Step 1  ✅  Project scaffold + dependencies
Step 2  ✅  Shared types
Step 3  ✅  Database layer (schema, CRUD, vector search, orphan sweep)
Step 5  ✅  Structural feature extractor
Step 6  ✅  Keyword scorer + dictionaries
Step 7  ✅  Positional analyzer
Step 8  ✅  Pattern detector
Step 9  ✅  TF-IDF keyword extractor
Step 10 ✅  Tool event classifier
Step 11 ✅  Weight combiner → Layer1Output
Step 12 ✅  Layer 2 digest generator
Step 13 ✅  Layer 3 project memory merger
Step 14 ✅  Embedding: MiniLM + sqlite-vec
Step 15 ✅  MCP server (5 tools + session end handler) — src/mcp/handlers.ts + src/mcp/index.ts
Step 16 ✅  Integration test — tests/integration/session.test.ts
Step 17 ✅  Shell wrapper — src/wrapper/{detect,project,index}.ts
Step 18 ✅  Per-tool hook plugins — src/hooks/{receiver,claude,gemini,opencode,index}.ts
Step 19 ✅  CLI wizard — src/cli/index.ts (detectInstalledTools, createWrapperSymlink, injectPathLine, forgetProject, getAllProjects + bin entry)

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Changes

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ctx-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository GhadiSaab/ctx-memory (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,711 tokens to every session, about $0.0086 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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