memory-work CLAUDE.md

memory-work CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from yiliqi78/memory-work. It costs 4,330 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for an agent workspace built around a file named CLAUDE.md. It defines language preferences, startup behavior, trigger words, and how to detect a first-time setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide agent startup, choose conversation and documentation languages, inspect USER.md, and run the workspace’s initial setup when needed.
Why use it?
It makes each session begin with consistent rules and helps distinguish an initialized workspace from one that still contains template placeholders. This prevents normal work from starting before required setup is complete.

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/yiliqi78/memory-work/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yiliqi78/memory-work

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Per session 4,330 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,330 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 $0.04330 $0.04330
Opus 5 $0.02165 $0.02165
Sonnet 5 $0.00866 $0.00866
Haiku 4.5 $0.00433 $0.00433

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3bdf975ccf1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-work 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 5d 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 · 499 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 499 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Personal Agent System Entry Point. Auto-injected by Cowork each session.


Language Rules

  • Internal thinking always uses your preferred language (configured in USER.md)
  • User conversations default to your language choice, unless you switch mid-session
  • Code comments, commit messages use English unless otherwise specified
  • Documentation files follow your project's style guide

System Boot Sequence

Trigger Words

When you send one of these trigger phrases, execute the full boot sequence:

  • boot / start work / initialize (or equivalent in your language)

First-Run Detection

Check Step (always first):

  1. Attempt to read USER.md
  2. Scan for template placeholders (e.g., [Your Name], [Your Project], TBD)
  3. If placeholders found → Run INITIALIZATION FLOW (below)
  4. If placeholders absent → Run NORMAL STARTUP SEQUENCE (below)

Initialization Flow (First-Time Users)

Execute only if first-run detection confirms template placeholders in USER.md.

Step 1: Language Selection

Ask user to confirm their preferred language for:

  • Internal thinking & system messages
  • Conversation style
  • File organization labels

Set this in USER.md under language_preference.

Step 2: File Initialization

  • Copy template files from templates/ directory (if available)
  • Remove unused language variants from boilerplate
  • Create skeleton folders for Knowledge Base (see KNOWLEDGE BASE ARCHITECTURE below)
  • Clean up placeholder text from SOUL.md and USER.md

Step 3: User Profile Setup (Conversational, Not a Questionnaire)

Let the conversation flow naturally. Cover these topics, but weave them in:

  • Role / Context: What does [Your Name] do? What's the main focus right now?
  • Working Style: Pace, collaboration mode, decision-making patterns
  • Goals for This System: What problems does this agent solve?
  • Sensitive Zones: Any topics, directories, or types of work that need special handling?

Read the full file on GitHub · 499 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. 5d ago First seen · 499 lines · 4,330 tokens per session scan A 3bdf975ccf1f

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memory-work CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yiliqi78/memory-work (135 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,330 tokens to every session, about $0.0216 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.