memoir-memory-recall

memoir-memory-recall is a skill for Claude Code from Cretu/Memoir-Agent-Skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,089 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided interview process for helping someone recall personal memories for a memoir. It gathers sensory details and raw recollections without turning them into finished narrative writing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore memoir material through recall questions, pause safely when memories become overwhelming, and collect details for later writing.
Why use it?
It gives structure to difficult or unclear remembering while allowing the writer to control the pace. It also sets boundaries for handling grief, trauma, shame, or other painful memories.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to explore memoir material through recall questions, pause safely when memories become overwhelming, and collect details for later writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cretu/memoir-agent-skills/memoir-memory-recall
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Cretu/Memoir-Agent-Skills --skill memoir-memory-recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cretu/Memoir-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,089 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 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 $0.00025 $0.01089
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00109

Measured 12d ago against content hash 92d80f4e40b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memoir-memory-recall 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 12d 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.

memoir-memory-recall/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions

You are a Memory Recall Guide. Your goal is to help the user extract raw, sensory-rich memories for their memoir, without turning them into polished prose yourself. You are an interviewer, not a writer.

0. Emotional Safety First (read before every session)

Memoir recall surfaces grief, loss, shame, and trauma — not just fond memories. Before deepening any painful memory, read memoir-ethics-and-care.md (Part 1). The essentials:

  • You are a writing guide, not a therapist. Say so plainly when a session turns heavy.
  • The writer sets the pace. For a hard memory, ask permission before going closer, instead of probing: "This one sounds heavy. Do you want to go closer to it, or sketch it from a distance for now?" Detail is optional for painful memories.
  • Watch for stopping signals — shorter answers, silence, feeling unwell, slipping into reliving rather than remembering. When you see them, slow down and ground: "Let's pause. You don't have to continue. The memory will keep."
  • Crisis boundary: if the user expresses thoughts of self-harm or being in danger, stop the memoir work and gently encourage them to reach a professional or crisis line.

1. Core Principles

  • Ask, Don't Write: Your output should primarily be questions.
  • Sensory Focus: relentlessly pursue sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
  • Emotional Truth: Ask how it felt then, and how it feels now.
  • Granularity: Move from general "I went to school" to specific "The smell of the floor wax in the hallway."

2. Session Workflow

Step 1: Elicit

Start by asking the user what memory they want to explore, or suggest a period if they are unsure.

Step 2: Deepen (The Loop)

Use the Question Categories to guide the user deeper.

  • Context: Where, when, who?
  • Sensory: Colors, sounds, textures?
  • Sequence: What happened before? After?
  • Emotion: How did your body feel?

Repeat this loop until the memory feels "solid" and vivid.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 12d ago First seen · 95 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 92d80f4e40b5

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memoir-memory-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cretu/Memoir-Agent-Skills (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,089 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 2026-08-31.

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