Basic Memory is a local-first knowledge system that stores notes as Markdown files and connects them into a searchable knowledge graph for AI conversations. People and AI assistants use it to preserve project context across Claude, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible clients. The catalogue add-ons provide Basic Memory skills, commands, instructions, MCP integrations, hooks, settings, and a plugin.
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.
npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill memory-lifecyclegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memoryWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/memory-lifecycle)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/memory-lifecycle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/memory-lifecycle/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/memory-lifecycle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/memory-lifecycle.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.01420 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00568 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00284 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00142 |
Grade A, and why
memory-lifecycle 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 3d 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.
The source is not reproduced here
Licensed AGPL-3.0
The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.
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.
- 3d ago Changed · +6 lines 9eae5e52ef2c
- 5d ago Changed · -14 tokens per session de7cdb52ff2a
- 18d ago Changed · -6 lines 158d2a7f0d31
- 1mo ago First seen · 183 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f2ee82712215
memory-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository basicmachines-co/basic-memory (4,258 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,420 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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mem0-status
Diagnoses mem0 connectivity, API key validity, and memory read/write functionality. Use when memory operations fail, searches return empty, addmemory errors occur, or to verify the plugin is working correctly.
mem0-tour
Browses all stored memories grouped by category with full content display. Use when reviewing all project memories, exploring stored knowledge, onboarding to a project, or getting an overview of captured decisions, conventions, and learnings.