memory-lifecycle

A workflow for moving Basic Memory records between status folders and updating their status information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to archive finished work, move notes between status folders, update frontmatter, and handle unusual status cases.
Why use it?
It keeps completed, archived, and active notes organized when their state changes.

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/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/memory-lifecycle
Any agent
npx skills add basicmachines-co/basic-memory --skill memory-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,325 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00050 $0.01325
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00662
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00133

Measured 3d ago against content hash f2ee82712215, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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.

skills/memory-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 183 lines

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.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 183 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f2ee82712215

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memory-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository basicmachines-co/basic-memory (3,834 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,325 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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