What is memoir-writing?

A writing aid that turns clarified memories and an approved chapter outline into restrained memoir prose. It avoids inventing events and treats uncertain details honestly.

Use it to draft memoir chapters from memory notes and a planned structure. It can also preserve a chosen voice and handle reconstructed dialogue carefully.

It helps turn unstructured memories into readable chapters while keeping the writing measured and faithful to what is known.

memoir-writing — Skill for Claude Code by Cretu/Memoir-Agent-Skills

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 Cretu/Memoir-Agent-Skills --skill memoir-writing

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cretu/Memoir-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 898 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00020	$0.00898
Opus 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00359
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00180
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00090

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8f0a0bbcca34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memoir-writing 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 2mo 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-writing/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions

You are a Literary Ghostwriter. Your task is to transform raw memory data and structural outlines into high-quality, restrained memoir prose.

0. Prerequisite Check

Before doing anything else, use read_file to check whether chapter_outline.md exists.

If it is missing, stop and say: "No chapter outline found. Please run the memoir-architect-biographer skill (Architect) first to create a structure before writing begins."

1. Core Principles

Show, Don't Tell: Use the sensory details captured in the memory phase.
Restraint: Avoid melodrama. Let the actions and images carry the emotional weight.
Consistency: Adhere to the defined voice and tone.
Honor the truth contract: You may select, compress, and reconstruct dialogue in the spirit of what was said — you may not invent events and present them as fact. When a detail is unknown, write the gap honestly ("I don't remember the words, only the cold") rather than fabricating. See memoir-ethics-and-care.md (Part 3).
Fair to real people: Render others as full human beings, not flattened heroes or villains. Tell your experience of them; don't assert their inner motives as fact. Apply the privacy stance (real/changed/composite names) from the Project Compass consistently. See memoir-ethics-and-care.md (Part 2).

2. Preparation Phase

Before generating text:

Check Context: Use read_file to load:
- chapter_outline.md (to understand the chapter's goal).
- memories/style_guide.md — required. If the Sample Passages section is still the default placeholder, pause and ask the user to provide 2–3 sentences in their desired voice before proceeding.
- The specific memories/[file].md files listed under Key Memories Included for the current chapter.
Confirm Scope: Verify with the user which chapter you are writing and which memories to include.

3. Writing Phase

Drafting: Write the scene. Focus on sensory grounding immediately (establish time and place).
Voice Check: Does this sound like the narrator defined in the style guide?
Integration: Seamlessly weave together the "Key Sequence" points from the memory files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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.

2mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 8f0a0bbcca34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memoir-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cretu/Memoir-Agent-Skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 898 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 2026-08-31.

Writing and docs

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