cross-session-memory

A self-hosted memory and continuity system for Claude Code, the coding assistant that works in a development project. It stores information about ongoing work so later sessions can pick up where earlier ones ended.

In plain words
What is it for?
Managing long-term memory, goals, checkpoints, work records, onboarding, handoffs, and session lifecycle events using PostgreSQL or SQLite.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to re-explain project context after a session ends, the conversation is shortened, or work is handed off.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add NovasPlace/CSM
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/novasplace/csm/cross-session-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovasPlace/CSM

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

cross-session-memory 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.

plugins/cross-session-memory/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 47 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "cross-session-memory",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "The complete self-hosted Cross-Session Memory runtime and lifecycle automation, native to Claude Code.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Donovan"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/NovasPlace/CSM",
  "repository": "https://github.com/NovasPlace/CSM",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "memory",
    "claude-code",
    "continuity",
    "postgres",
    "sqlite"
  ],
  "commands": "./commands/",
  "agents": "./agents/",
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "hooks": "./hooks/hooks.json",
  "mcpServers": "./.mcp.json",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Cross-Session Memory",
    "shortDescription": "Full CSM continuity runtime for Claude Code.",
    "longDescription": "Memory, governance, living state, beliefs, self-model, AgentBook, checkpoints, context cache, goals, work ledger, onboarding, re-entry, compaction, and handoff automation — wired into Claude Code's native lifecycle hooks, slash commands, subagents, and skills.",
    "developerName": "Donovan",
    "category": "Productivity",
    "capabilities": [
      "Search",
      "Write",
      "Long-term memory",
      "Lifecycle automation",
      "Living state",
      "AgentBook"
    ],
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Search project memory before we start changing code.",
      "Build a context brief for this task from prior sessions.",
      "Show the current context pressure before we continue."
    ],
    "brandColor": "#2563EB",
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/NovasPlace/CSM",
    "privacyPolicyURL": "https://github.com/NovasPlace/CSM/blob/master/docs/DATA_PRIVACY_AND_LIFECYCLE.md"
  }
}
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 · 47 lines scan A fd2bfccdf445

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cross-session-memory is a plugin published in the GitHub repository NovasPlace/CSM (41 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.