hmem-session-start

hmem-session-start is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bumblebiber/hmem. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,837 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A required session-start procedure for Cortex, a coding-agent setup that loads saved project context and checks unfinished work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting or resuming a session, selecting a recent project, loading its saved information, checking the Git repository for pending work, and running the defined startup checks.
Why use it?
It helps the agent resume work with the right project, recent decisions, rules, sync status, and pending tasks instead of starting without context.

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/bumblebiber/hmem/hmem-session-start
Any agent
npx skills add Bumblebiber/hmem --skill hmem-session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,837 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 $0.00083 $0.01837
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00919
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00184

Measured 5d ago against content hash f27f6f238746, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hmem-session-start 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 5d 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/hmem-session-start/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hmem-session-start

TRIGGER

Run at the beginning of any session, after /clear, and after any load_project call.

CONTEXT: Pre-injected by hook

All stable context is PRE-INJECTED by the hmem-startup.sh hook:

  • H-entries (H0008 Identität, H0005 Arbeitsstil, H0003 IT-Skills, H0007 Präferenzen, etc.)
  • Recent projects (--- Recent projects --- block)
  • Device info (--- Active device --- block)
  • Sync status (--- hmem-sync --- block)
  • Infrastructure favorites (--- Infrastructure --- block)
  • Checkpoint status

Do NOT call read_memory(mode='essentials') — it's redundant and slow.

STEP 1: Activate project

If the user's message names a specific project (e.g. "lade Projekt hmem", "P0048"): call load_project(id: "P00XX").

If the user did NOT name a project: list the 5 entries from the --- Recent projects --- block as bullet points, ask which one. Once picked, call load_project(id: "P00XX").

load_project returns the project brief, recent O-Entry summaries, rules, lessons. load_project is the only activation action — no separate read_memory.

STEP 2: Pending-work check (git repo state)

Sessions resume after days or weeks — pending work rots if nobody surfaces it.

Find the repo

Look in load_project output for a filesystem path (.1.4 Environment / .2 Codebase). If no .git, skip.

Run the checks (parallel)

git status --porcelain
git stash list
git worktree list
git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short) %(committerdate:relative)' refs/heads/ | grep -v '^main\b\|^master\b'
git branch --no-merged main 2>/dev/null || git branch --no-merged master

Cross-reference: branch in for-each-ref AND --no-merged = real unmerged commits.

Surface

Only when something is pending. German format:

⚠ Offene Arbeit im Repo:
  Worktrees:
    .worktrees/<name> — Branch <branch>, letzter Commit <relative date>
  Stashes:
    stash@{0}: <message> (<relative date>)
  Unmerged Branches:
    <branch> — <N> Commits voraus, letzter Commit <relative date>
  Uncommitted auf <current branch>:
    <file>, <file>, ...

Weiter dran arbeiten oder aufräumen?

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 5d ago First seen · 187 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A f27f6f238746

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hmem-session-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bumblebiber/hmem (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,837 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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