memory

memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielsimonjr/memory-mcp. It costs 155 tokens per session (1,936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A playbook for using a cross-session knowledge graph backed by memory-mcp. A knowledge graph stores facts, decisions, entities, and relationships so they can be recalled later.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps save and recall facts or decisions, update entities and relationships, tag and score information, index a project, and maintain or migrate the memory store.
Why use it?
It gives agents a consistent way to search existing memory before adding information and to keep stored knowledge organised and useful.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the memory-mcp plugin — 1 skill, 9 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielsimonjr/memory-mcp/memory
Any agent
npx skills add danielsimonjr/memory-mcp --skill memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielsimonjr/memory-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install memory-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 9 commands, 1 MCP server.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielsimonjr/memory-mcp/memory.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielsimonjr/memory-mcp/memory)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielsimonjr/memory-mcp/memory"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielsimonjr/memory-mcp/memory.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,936 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00155 $0.01936
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00968
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00194

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1ba739f7def6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory 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 4d 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/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory

A judgment layer over the memory-mcp server's knowledge-graph tools — entity/relation/observation CRUD, search, tagging, importance scoring, and graph maintenance, backed by sqlite (or JSONL). This skill adds no tools of its own: every action below is one of the server's existing MCP tools, called with the plugin-prefixed name mcp__plugin_memory-mcp_memory-mcp__<tool>. Its job is to steer you toward the right operation for a given intent — search before create, tag and score for retrieval later, maintain the graph periodically — rather than reinvent memory management ad hoc.

Skill root: this skill ships inside the memory-mcp plugin (repo danielsimonjr/memory-mcp, skills/memory/). Slash trigger: /memory.

When to use / not

Use this skill for anything that touches the knowledge graph as long-term memory: storing a fact or decision, recalling what's known about a topic, searching or browsing entities, tagging/scoring/deduping/compressing the graph, indexing a project's current state into memory, or migrating the storage backend between JSONL and SQLite.

Not for the repo's general dev-utility commands — chunk (file chunking for context-limited edits), cton/compress-for-context, commit, deps (dependency graphs), graph, search (repo code search) — those are separate, unrelated commands and out of scope here even though some share a word ("graph", "search") with graph operations. If in doubt: does the action read/write the memory-mcp knowledge graph? If not, this skill doesn't apply.

Core memory operations

The server exposes a large tool surface, but everyday graph work reduces to a small set of operations. All names below are called as mcp__plugin_memory-mcp_memory-mcp__<tool>; if a tool isn't loaded, fetch its schema via ToolSearch select:mcp__plugin_memory-mcp_memory-mcp__<tool>.

Intent Tool
Graph stats (entity/relation counts, types) get_graph_stats
Search entities by query/tags/importance search_nodes
Open specific entities by name open_nodes
Read the entire graph (sparingly — see Gotchas) read_graph
Find potential duplicate entities find_duplicates
Add an observation to an existing entity add_observations
Create a new entity create_entities
Create a relation between entities create_relations
Add tags to an entity add_tags
Set an entity's importance (0–10) set_importance
Delete an entity delete_entities
Delete specific observations delete_observations
Merge two+ entities into one merge_entities
Compress the graph (merge near-duplicates) compress_graph

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 83 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 1ba739f7def6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielsimonjr/memory-mcp (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 1,936 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

media-ingest

Ingest video, audio, PDF, book, screenshot, and GitHub repo content into the brain. Multi-format handling with entity extraction and backlink propagation. Covers video-ingest, youtube-ingest, and book-ingest subtypes.

garrytan/gbrain · 52 tokens

mem0-oss-to-platform

Plan and then execute a migration of a project from the mem0 open-source / self-hosted SDK (the local Memory class) to the mem0 Platform / hosted / managed SDK (the MemoryClient class). Use this whenever a developer wants to move, switch, or migrate their mem0 usage off OSS/self-hosted to the hosted API — e.g.…

mem0ai/mem0 · 273 tokens

Cortex

Operate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions, ISAs, and conversations. Search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, distill, graph-navigate, recall. USE WHEN cortex, knowledge, knowledge base, search…

danielmiessler/LifeOS · 196 tokens

agent-memory

../../../engineering/agent-memory/skills/agent-memory/SKILL.md.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 0 tokens

memory

Use when the user asks to remember, recall, forget, update, search, or inspect durable OpenSquilla memory, including profile facts in USER.md and long-term notes in MEMORY.md or memory//.md.

opensquilla/opensquilla · 44 tokens

ha-data-stores

Map of Hope Agent's local data stores and safe read-only query workflow. Use when the user asks where Hope Agent stores data, wants to inspect sessions/messages/memory/logs/background jobs/knowledge indexes/settings, asks the model to query local app data, or debugging requires checking persisted state. Trigger…

shiwenwen/hope-agent · 115 tokens