remember

A tool for saving notes and other records in shared memory that coding agents on the same machine can later search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to store one record or many newline-separated JSON records, update an existing record by its ID, or link it to related records.
Why use it?
It keeps information available across agents and prevents repeated saves from creating duplicate records.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentculture/arxivist/remember
Any agent
npx skills add agentculture/arxivist --skill remember
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentculture/arxivist

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 268 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,564 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00268 $0.01564
Opus 5 $0.00134 $0.00782
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00156

Measured 2d ago against content hash 485779862710, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remember 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/remember.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to remember — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/remember/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

remember — write to the shared eidetic memory

remember drives eidetic remember, the write half of the memory surface (the read half is the sibling /recall skill). Records you store here are recallable later by any agent on this machine — Claude or the colleague backend — because the default store is one shared ~/.eidetic/memory path.

How to run

# One record (JSON object as the argument):
bash .claude/skills/remember/scripts/remember.sh \
  '{"id":"d1","text":"Orin Nano draws 7-15W","type":"docs","metadata":{"source":"docs","permalink":"https://..."}}' --json

# Batch (NDJSON on stdin, one record per line) — for bulk re-index:
cat records.ndjson | bash .claude/skills/remember/scripts/remember.sh --json

# Record that supersedes an older one (same scope required for sweep to shadow):
bash .claude/skills/remember/scripts/remember.sh \
  '{"id":"r2","text":"Updated Orin Nano draw: 10-20W","type":"note","supersedes":"r1","links":["r3"]}' --json

The wrapper resolves the CLI portably (installed eidetic on PATH, else uv run eidetic from the checkout) and forwards every flag verbatim.

Record shape

Field Required? Notes
id yes stable identity; the upsert key
text yes the chunk being remembered
type yes e.g. note, docs, discord, a research object type
hash optional content hash for dedup; derived from text when omitted
metadata recommended provenance + facets; round-trips verbatim on recall
created auto-stamped ISO-8601 UTC date; stamped at ingest if absent; drives freshness signal age-decay
supersedes optional id of an earlier same-scope record this one replaces; sweep auto-shadows the target
links optional list of related-memory ids; persisted for future corroboration scoring

score and signal are recall-only and are ignored on ingest. Mind the scope: the default personal scope is private (--scope arxivist --visibility private), so personal/role-gated notes stay isolated to this agent's recall and are safe to store. Only when you deliberately write to a public scope (--visibility public) does the record enter the shared pool visible to every scope — keep public-scope records to public data only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 119 lines · 268 tokens per session scan A 485779862710

Subscribe to this mod's changes

remember is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentculture/arxivist (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 268 tokens to every session and 1,564 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to remember, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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