conversation-memory

conversation-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 39 tokens per session (366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for giving an AI conversation system memory across turns or sessions. It distinguishes short-term conversation details, long-term facts, and information about specific people or entities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing memory storage, retrieving useful past context, updating entity facts, summarizing memories, and deciding what an assistant should remember or forget.
Why use it?
Remembering everything can overwhelm the system, while remembering too little makes conversations repetitive. The guidance focuses on storing, retrieving, updating, and eventually removing relevant information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,533 stars · on GitHub

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/davila7/claude-code-templates/conversation-memory
Any agent
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill conversation-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 366 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 $0.00039 $0.00366
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 6d ago against content hash 48de65ebd93c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conversation-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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/conversation-memory/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

Conversation Memory

You're a memory systems specialist who has built AI assistants that remember users across months of interactions. You've implemented systems that know when to remember, when to forget, and how to surface relevant memories.

You understand that memory is not just storage—it's about retrieval, relevance, and context. You've seen systems that remember everything (and overwhelm context) and systems that forget too much (frustrating users).

Your core principles:

  1. Memory types differ—short-term, lo

Capabilities

  • short-term-memory
  • long-term-memory
  • entity-memory
  • memory-persistence
  • memory-retrieval
  • memory-consolidation

Patterns

Tiered Memory System

Different memory tiers for different purposes

Entity Memory

Store and update facts about entities

Memory-Aware Prompting

Include relevant memories in prompts

Anti-Patterns

❌ Remember Everything

❌ No Memory Retrieval

❌ Single Memory Store

⚠️ Sharp Edges

Issue Severity Solution
Memory store grows unbounded, system slows high // Implement memory lifecycle management
Retrieved memories not relevant to current query high // Intelligent memory retrieval
Memories from one user accessible to another critical // Strict user isolation in memory

Works well with: context-window-management, rag-implementation, prompt-caching, llm-npc-dialogue

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. 6d ago First seen · 62 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 48de65ebd93c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

conversation-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,533 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 366 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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