memory-design

memory-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cobusgreyling/agent-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,490 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to designing what an AI agent remembers, where that information is stored, and when it should be removed or ignored. It covers temporary conversation context, long-term facts, past experiences, summaries, and stored memories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding memory to an agent, choosing a memory store, or deciding between conversation history, summaries, and vector-based storage.
Why use it?
It helps prevent an agent from forgetting useful information or relying on old, irrelevant, or harmful details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when adding memory to an agent, choosing a memory store, or deciding between conversation history, summaries, and vector-based storage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cobusgreyling/agent-skills/memory-design
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 cobusgreyling/agent-skills --skill memory-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/agent-skills

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.

agentmods badge for memory-design

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cobusgreyling/agent-skills/memory-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cobusgreyling/agent-skills/memory-design.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,490 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.
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 5.1 $0.00094 $0.01490
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00745
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00149

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9c6501a32bd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-design 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 8d 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-design/SKILL.md · 109 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 109 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 9c6501a32bd0

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memory-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository cobusgreyling/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,490 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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