memory-review

memory-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cveralyon/axel-setup. It costs 61 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A memory-maintenance skill reviews the files used to store persistent conversation context.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for auditing memory files, finding missing index entries, asking focused questions, and producing a cleaned-up memory state.
Why use it?
It helps find outdated, repeated, irrelevant, or overly long memory entries so future context stays useful.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It is for auditing memory files, finding missing index entries, asking focused questions, and producing a cleaned-up memory state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cveralyon/axel-setup/memory-review
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 cveralyon/axel-setup --skill memory-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cveralyon/axel-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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-review

README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 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 $0.00061 $0.00844
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 7d ago against content hash f1ee7ea37d47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-review 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 7d 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-review/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Review & Optimization

Interactive memory maintenance skill. When invoked, systematically reviews all memory files and works with the user to keep the memory system clean, relevant, and efficient.

Workflow

Phase 1: Audit

  1. Read ~/.claude/memory/MEMORY.md (index)
  2. Read every memory file listed in the index
  3. Detect any orphan files (exist on disk but not in index)
  4. For each memory file, evaluate:
    • Staleness: Does the content reference things that may have changed? (team members, tools, architectures)
    • Redundancy: Is this duplicated or overlapping with another memory file?
    • Relevance: Is this still useful for future conversations?
    • Accuracy: Does this match current reality? (verify against code/git if needed)
    • Size: Is this too verbose? Can it be trimmed without losing value?

Phase 2: Report

Present a structured report to the user:

## Memory Audit Report

### Summary
- Total files: X
- Index entries: X
- Orphan files: X (not in index)
- Potentially stale: X
- Candidates for merge: X
- Candidates for removal: X

### Per-File Analysis
For each file, show:
- Status: OK / STALE / MERGE_CANDIDATE / REMOVE_CANDIDATE
- Last modified: date
- Reason: why this status
- Suggested action: keep / update / merge with X / remove

Phase 3: Interactive Q&A

Ask the user targeted questions to resolve ambiguities:

  • "Is X still accurate?"
  • "Should I merge A and B since they overlap?"
  • "This mentions Y which seems outdated — remove or update?"
  • "Any new context I should add?"

Keep questions grouped and numbered for easy answering. Max 5-7 questions per round.

Phase 4: Execute

Based on user answers:

  1. Update stale files with correct information
  2. Merge redundant files
  3. Remove files the user confirms as unnecessary
  4. Add any new memory files the user requests
  5. Rebuild MEMORY.md index with accurate one-line descriptions
  6. Sync both memory locations:
    • ~/.claude/memory/ (shared, primary)
    • ~/.claude/projects/ (legacy fallback, path varies by user)

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 7d ago First seen · 101 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A f1ee7ea37d47

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memory-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository cveralyon/axel-setup (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 844 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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