consolidate

consolidate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from choiyounggi/groundwork. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,085 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A memory cleanup procedure for an agent's saved notes. It merges duplicates, resolves conflicts using newer information, and updates unclear relative dates, then asks for confirmation before writing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when memory files have grown large or contain repeated and conflicting notes. It prepares a proposed cleaned-up version for review.
Why use it?
It prevents long-term memory from becoming bloated, contradictory, or outdated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the memory-loop plugin — 5 skills shipped together

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/choiyounggi/groundwork/consolidate
Any agent
npx skills add choiyounggi/groundwork --skill consolidate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/choiyounggi/groundwork

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install memory-loop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for consolidate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/choiyounggi/groundwork/consolidate.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/choiyounggi/groundwork/consolidate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/choiyounggi/groundwork/consolidate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/choiyounggi/groundwork/consolidate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,085 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 $0.00065 $0.01085
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00543
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 5d ago against content hash e16ae501412b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consolidate 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.

plugins/memory-loop/skills/consolidate/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

memory-loop: consolidate

Capture and expiry keep memory flowing; nothing keeps it coherent. Over many sessions the index bloats, two files describe the same thing, an old fact survives next to the newer one that disproved it, and "yesterday" is frozen in a note whose yesterday is long gone. This skill is the operate-stage cleanup: a reflective pass that merges long-tier memory into durable, well-organized form — and, like remember, never writes without your confirmation.

Adapted from xai-org/grok-build's "dream" consolidation pass (Apache-2.0), reframed around memory-loop's save gate and tier model.

When to run

It is a manual skill — there is no forced trigger. Run it when:

  • MEMORY.md has grown large (~120+ lines).
  • A learning-review nudge surfaced duplicate or contradictory notes.
  • A big piece of work finished and left several related memories behind.

Scope — what it may touch

Read MEMORY.md and the tier: long memory files beside it. Exclude:

Excluded Why
Files without a tier key Outside the lifecycle (the compatibility contract) — never touch them
tier: short memories The expiry sweep owns these; consolidation leaves them alone
Identity files (the user/assistant names from setup) Continuity anchors — changed only through the identity skill, never here
Anything already under archived/ Already retired

The five verbs

Review each memory or group through five lenses (the consolidation prompt):

  1. Merge — fold related information into one coherent, self-contained topic.
  2. Resolve — on a contradiction, keep only the current truth; a recent session that disproves an older fact wins (note the superseded one as background if it still explains a decision).
  3. Convert — turn relative dates ("yesterday", "last week") into absolute dates.
  4. Discard — drop ephemera: greetings, meta-commentary, tool-output noise, consumed "current state / next steps", and preferences already in global memory. Discard means move to archived/, not delete — nothing is lost.
  5. Preserve — keep decisions and their rationale, architecture, preferences, and problem/solution pairs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 · 89 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A e16ae501412b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

consolidate is a skill published in the GitHub repository choiyounggi/groundwork (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,085 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 2026-08-31.

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