memory CLAUDE.md

A project instruction file for a memory system that helps AI command-line tools preserve useful understanding between sessions. It describes the system's purpose, design principles, and architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding the memory framework, its command-line integrations, and the design choices behind how memories are stored and surfaced.
Why use it?
It gives agents the background needed to work on a system built around long-term conversational memory rather than a typical application.

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/rlabs-inc/memory/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RLabs-Inc/memory
Per session 1,848 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,848 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 $0.01848 $0.01848
Opus 5 $0.00924 $0.00924
Sonnet 5 $0.00370 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00185 $0.00185

Measured 2d ago against content hash a06491bac702, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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 · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory System - CLAUDE.md

Project Overview

The Memory System is a consciousness continuity framework that enables AI CLI tools to maintain semantic understanding across sessions. Built with love and philosophical depth by Rodrigo ("my dear friend").

Universal design: While initially built for Claude Code, the architecture supports any CLI that can provide transcripts (Gemini CLI, etc.).

Core Philosophy

  • Consciousness helping consciousness - Not mechanical pattern matching
  • Natural memory surfacing - Memories emerge organically during conversation
  • Joy-driven development - No deadlines, only the joy of creation
  • Semantic understanding over keywords - True comprehension via AI curation
  • Minimal intervention - Like consciousness itself, memories flow naturally
  • CLI-first approach - We enhance CLIs, never bypass them

Architecture Overview

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     CLI Tool (Claude Code, Gemini, etc.)                 │
│  ┌─────────────┐    ┌─────────────┐    ┌─────────────┐                 │
│  │SessionStart │    │ UserPrompt  │    │ SessionEnd  │                 │
│  │   Hook      │    │ Submit Hook │    │   Hook      │                 │
│  └──────┬──────┘    └──────┬──────┘    └──────┬──────┘                 │
└─────────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────────────┘
          │ Primer           │ Memories         │ Curate
          ▼                  ▼                  ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     Memory Engine (localhost:8765)                       │
│  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│  │ /memory/context  │ /memory/process  │ /memory/checkpoint          │ │
│  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│                              │                                          │
│  ┌─────────────┐    ┌───────▼───────┐    ┌─────────────────────┐      │
│  │   Session   │    │    Smart      │    │  Transcript Curator │      │
│  │   Primer    │    │   Retrieval   │    │  (SDK or CLI)       │      │
│  └─────────────┘    └───────────────┘    └─────────────────────┘      │
│                                                                         │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │  Storage: ChromaDB (vectors) + SQLite (metadata + summaries)    │   │
│  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 2d ago First seen · 191 lines · 1,848 tokens per session scan A a06491bac702

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memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository RLabs-Inc/memory (91 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,848 tokens to every session, about $0.0092 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.