letta-failure-modes

letta-failure-modes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills. It costs 121 tokens per session (2,033 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for an AI agent’s memory design. It checks the design against eight known ways memory can fail, such as losing timelines or retrieving the wrong facts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a memory snapshot or a written description of how an agent stores and retrieves information.
Why use it?
It helps find memory problems before the system is released. The report points to evidence of each problem and suggests fixes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review a memory snapshot or a written description of how an agent stores and retrieves information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/letta-failure-modes
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 AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills --skill letta-failure-modes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,033 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 $0.00121 $0.02033
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01017
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00203

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0184b9beb03e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

letta-failure-modes 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (cli.py, lib.py), 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.

skills/memory/letta-failure-modes/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Letta 8-Failure-Modes Diagnostic

Overview

The Letta Leaderboard for benchmarking agentic memory names eight distinct failure modes that tend to co-occur (Ch4):

  1. No-retrieval-when-available — model fails to recognize when relevant info is already in memory; issues unnecessary searches.
  2. Hierarchy-collapse — trivia in prime memory; critical facts archived or dropped.
  3. In-conversation-misses — agent misses key pieces of info even when present in the immediate context.
  4. Volume-degradation — retrieval accuracy degrades as data volume grows; performance drops at scale.
  5. Silent-overwrite — new info overwrites old facts instead of being layered; system cannot explain how or why things changed.
  6. Cross-reference-failure — related info isolated in separate silos; no pattern recognition.
  7. Temporal-blur — event timelines blur; agent loses temporal coherence.
  8. Threshold-collapse — works at hundreds of facts, quietly collapses at thousands.

This skill takes a snapshot of an agent's memory state (or a structural description) and reports which of these 8 are present, with evidence and recommended fixes. It runs static analysis — no agent inference loop required.

When to Use

  • Pre-launch review of a new memory implementation
  • Root-cause analysis when an agent in production is "forgetting" or "drifting"
  • Periodic audit (weekly / monthly) on long-running agents
  • Code review of a colleague's memory layer

Phrases: "audit my memory architecture", "why is my agent forgetting", "is my memory production-ready", "Letta Leaderboard", "memory diagnostic".

When NOT to Use

  • Single failure mode you've already identified. If you know it's silent-overwrite, just go fix it; this skill's value is the cross-cutting audit, not the depth on one mode.
  • Runtime monitor. This is a static diagnostic. Production needs metrics + alerts, not periodic full-audit invocation.
  • Benchmark/eval. This does not produce a comparable accuracy number. For Letta Leaderboard scoring, run the actual benchmark suite.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 145 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 0184b9beb03e

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letta-failure-modes is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 2,033 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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