load-memory

load-memory is a skill for Claude Code from Abilityai/abilities. It costs 12 tokens per session (420 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start skill that loads selected information from an agent’s memory files, including preferences, active work, important facts, recent actions, and key entities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to restore context at the beginning of a session, review pending tasks, and apply remembered preferences or facts.
Why use it?
It gives the agent relevant background without reading the entire memory store every time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-dev plugin — 47 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to restore context at the beginning of a session, review pending tasks, and apply remembered preferences or facts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abilityai/abilities/load-memory
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill load-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 420 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00012 $0.00420
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00168
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 00830f47492c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

load-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 1mo 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.

plugins/agent-dev/memory-templates/json-state/load-memory/SKILL.md · 85 lines

What it actually says

Load Memory

Load memory context efficiently at session start.

Purpose

Load relevant memory sections without reading the entire JSON file. Use selective jq queries to extract only needed context.

Step 1: Load Core Identity

jq '{profile, preferences}' memory/memory_index.json

This gives agent identity and communication preferences.

Step 2: Load Active Context

jq '{context, active_tasks: .tasks.active}' memory/memory_index.json

This shows current work state and pending tasks.

Step 3: Load Key Facts

jq '.memory.key_facts' memory/memory_index.json

Important facts the agent should always know.

Step 4: Load Recent Actions

head -50 memory/action_log.txt

Last 50 actions for continuity context.

Step 5: Load Relevant Entities

jq '.entities | map(select(.importance == "critical" or .importance == "high"))' memory/memory_index.json

Only high-importance entities to avoid context bloat.

Step 6: Present Summary

Output a concise memory summary:

## Memory Loaded

**Profile**: [name] - [role]
**Communication**: [style]
**Active Topics**: [list]
**Key Facts**: [count] facts loaded
**Pending Tasks**: [count] tasks
**Recent Actions**: [last 3 actions]

Selective Loading

The agent should NOT load everything. Priority:

  1. Profile & preferences (always)
  2. Active context (always)
  3. Key facts (always)
  4. Pending tasks (always)
  5. Entities (high importance only)
  6. Decisions (only if relevant to current task)

Memory Map

Check memory/memory_map.yaml for custom files to load.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 85 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 00830f47492c

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load-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 420 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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