design-agent-memory

design-agent-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bikeread/promethos. It costs 21 tokens per session (610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for deciding which information an agent should keep between turns or sessions and which information it should retrieve only when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign information to memory layers, set how long each type remains useful, and define what evidence is worth saving.
Why use it?
It reduces stale or noisy memory and keeps project facts, user preferences, temporary observations, and retrieved records from being mixed together.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/bikeread/promethos/design-agent-memory
Any agent
npx skills add bikeread/promethos --skill design-agent-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bikeread/promethos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 610 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00021 $0.00610
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 6d ago against content hash a3a4a78643a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-agent-memory 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 6d 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/design-agent-memory/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

Assign the right information to the right memory layer so recall is useful without becoming stale, noisy, or risky.

Inputs

  • Types of information the agent may store
  • Expected duration of usefulness
  • Privacy, accuracy, and retrieval constraints

Non-Goals

  • Solving all context problems through persistence
  • Keeping every observation forever

Workflow

Trigger signals

  • User says "它忘了" or "it keeps forgetting"
  • Agent has no memory configuration but handles multi-session work
  • Preferences are being re-stated every conversation
  • Project facts and user preferences are starting to blur together
  • Memory is growing without expiry rules

1. Classify the information by durability and ownership

Separate session state, project facts, user preferences, retrieved records, and ephemeral observations by how long they stay useful and who owns their truth. Be explicit about the difference between project truth (for example repository facts or policy) and user preferences so one does not silently overwrite the other. Success criteria: Each memory class has a distinct role and expected lifespan.

2. Define what earns a write

Specify what kinds of information should be written into each memory layer and what should be ignored, summarized, or left transient. Success criteria: The write policy is selective and intentional rather than "store anything that might matter."

3. Define read triggers and precedence

State when each memory layer should be consulted and which layer wins if stored facts disagree. Success criteria: Memory reads follow a stable precedence order instead of unpredictable mixing.

4. Define freshness, expiry, and override rules

Describe how memory becomes stale, how it is refreshed, and when human confirmation is required before acting on it. Success criteria: The design explicitly handles stale or conflicting memory.

5. Check trust and privacy boundaries

Review whether any memory class could accumulate misleading, sensitive, or over-personalized information. Success criteria: The strategy accounts for trust and privacy risk, not just recall utility.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 6d ago First seen · 81 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A a3a4a78643a3

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design-agent-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository bikeread/promethos (33 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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