wax-memory-maintenance

wax-memory-maintenance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from christopherkarani/Wax. It costs 18 tokens per session (258 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A maintenance guide for the Wax memory store used by the Hermes wax-memory provider. It covers checking the service, finding stored context, saving durable facts, and preserving session handoffs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps diagnose the memory service, search or recall stored information, save facts and decisions, record session continuity, and recover missing or disabled search functionality.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of lost, poorly stored, or incorrectly recalled information during and between coding sessions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps diagnose the memory service, search or recall stored information, save facts and decisions, record session continuity, and recover missing or disabled search functionality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/christopherkarani/wax/maintenance
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.

Any agent
npx skills add christopherkarani/Wax --skill maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherkarani/Wax

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 258 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 20
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00018 $0.00258
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00103
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 213df92671b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wax-memory-maintenance 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 1mo 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.

Resources/hermes/wax-memory-plugin/skills/maintenance/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Wax Memory Maintenance

Use when the active Hermes memory provider is wax-memory.

Checks

  1. Confirm the broker is reachable: hermes wax-memory doctor
  2. Prefer wax_recall for assembled context and wax_search for raw hits
  3. Store durable facts with wax_remember and memory_type from note, user_preference, decision, lesson, handoff, constraint, fact; task_state is session-local working state and requires an active session
  4. Write session continuity with wax_handoff; do not dump raw transcripts
  5. Use structured tools (wax_entity_upsert, wax_fact_assert, wax_facts_query) only for stable knowledge-graph facts

Recovery

  • If recall is empty, run npx waxmcp --embedder minilm --transport http
  • If vector search is disabled, rebuild both wax-cli and wax-mcp with MiniLM/Arctic traits
  • After /reset or /resume, rely on the provider session switch — do not invent a new session id
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. 1mo ago First seen · 23 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 213df92671b4

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wax-memory-maintenance is a skill published in the GitHub repository christopherkarani/Wax (805 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 258 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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