mnemosyne-maintenance

mnemosyne-maintenance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AtlasOmnia/donna-starter. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Maintenance guidance for Mnemosyne, a software package that stores and processes memory-related data for Hermes. It covers upgrades, missing text embeddings, slow consolidation, and package-version problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for running diagnostics, checking embedding support, fixing installation or version mismatches, and resolving a local-development copy that takes precedence over the installed package.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether missing dependencies, an old runtime, or a local folder shadowing the installed package is causing the problem.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for hermes-agent. Also seen: built for hermes-agent.

Good fit It is for running diagnostics, checking embedding support, fixing installation or version mismatches, and resolving a local-development copy that takes precedence over the installed package.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atlasomnia/donna-starter/mnemosyne-maintenance
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 AtlasOmnia/donna-starter --skill mnemosyne-maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AtlasOmnia/donna-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,737 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 7 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 47
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 71
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 80
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 37
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 38
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 116
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 134
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.01737
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00869
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00174

Measured 10d ago against content hash 21e5e30f80df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mnemosyne-maintenance 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/hermes/mnemosyne-maintenance/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mnemosyne Maintenance

Use when: upgrading Mnemosyne, diagnosing slow/hung consolidation (mnemosyne_sleep), fixing missing embeddings, or troubleshooting import/version mismatches.

Triggers

  • mnemosyne_sleep hanging for >2 minutes
  • Diagnose reports "fastembed not available" or "sqlite_vec not available" despite being installed
  • Version mismatch: pip shows newer version than runtime
  • Embeddings_available=NO when deps are present

Core troubleshooting (in order)

  1. Run diagnostics:
  • mnemosyne_diagnose
  • Look for: missing fastembed, sqlite_vec, ctransformers; embeddings_available status; mnemosyne_version
  1. Check for local dev shadowing:
  • A local ~/mnemosyne directory will shadow the pip-installed package because Python adds ~ to sys.path on macOS.
  • Confirm with: python -c "import mnemosyne, inspect; print(mnemosyne.file)" If it prints ~/mnemosyne/..., that's the problem.
  1. Fix shadowing (if present):
  • Rename or move local dev copy: mv ~/mnemosyne ~/mnemosyne-local
  • Ensure PYTHONPATH prioritizes site-packages in gateway plist: plutil -replace "EnvironmentVariables.PYTHONPATH" -string "~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages" ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.hermes.gateway.plist
  • Restart gateway: launchctl stop ai.hermes.gateway && launchctl start ai.hermes.gateway
  1. Remove stale plugin symlinks:
  • Old setups may have: ~/.hermes/plugins/mnemosyne -> ~/mnemosyne/hermes_memory_provider Modern Mnemosyne (3.8+) includes Hermes integration in the package; this symlink is unnecessary and can break imports.
  • If present, remove it: rm ~/.hermes/plugins/mnemosyne
  1. Upgrade Mnemosyne + deps:
  • From venv: pip install --upgrade "mnemosyne-memory[embeddings]" sqlite-vec
  • If version mismatch persists (pip shows new, runtime still old):
  • Uninstall and reinstall cleanly: pip uninstall -y mnemosyne-memory && pip install --upgrade "mnemosyne-memory[embeddings]" sqlite-vec
  1. Restart gateway after changes:
  • launchctl stop ai.hermes.gateway && launchctl start ai.hermes.gateway

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 10d ago First seen · 135 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 21e5e30f80df

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mnemosyne-maintenance is a skill published in the GitHub repository AtlasOmnia/donna-starter (110 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,737 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.