Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DNYoussef/context-cascadenpx agentmods add skills/dnyoussef/context-cascade/reasoningbank-with-agentdbWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dnyoussef/context-cascade/reasoningbank-with-agentdb)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dnyoussef/context-cascade/reasoningbank-with-agentdb"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dnyoussef/context-cascade/reasoningbank-with-agentdb/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dnyoussef/context-cascade/reasoningbank-with-agentdb"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dnyoussef/context-cascade/reasoningbank-with-agentdb.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00056 | $0.03820 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.01528 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00764 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00382 |
Grade A, and why
reasoningbank-with-agentdb 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 542 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
LIBRARY-FIRST PROTOCOL (MANDATORY)
Before writing ANY code, you MUST check:
Step 1: Library Catalog
- Location:
.claude/library/catalog.json - If match >70%: REUSE or ADAPT
Step 2: Patterns Guide
- Location:
.claude/docs/inventories/LIBRARY-PATTERNS-GUIDE.md - If pattern exists: FOLLOW documented approach
Step 3: Existing Projects
- Location:
D:\Projects\* - If found: EXTRACT and adapt
Decision Matrix
| Match | Action |
|---|---|
| Library >90% | REUSE directly |
| Library 70-90% | ADAPT minimally |
| Pattern exists | FOLLOW pattern |
| In project | EXTRACT |
| No match | BUILD (add to library after) |
When NOT to Use This Skill
- Local-only operations with no vector search needs
- Simple key-value storage without semantic similarity
- Real-time streaming data without persistence requirements
- Operations that do not require embedding-based retrieval
Success Criteria
- Vector search query latency: <10ms for 99th percentile
- Embedding generation: <100ms per document
- Index build time: <1s per 1000 vectors
- Recall@10: >0.95 for similar documents
- Database connection success rate: >99.9%
- Memory footprint: <2GB for 1M vectors with quantization
Edge Cases & Error Handling
- Rate Limits: AgentDB local instances have no rate limits; cloud deployments may vary
- Connection Failures: Implement retry logic with exponential backoff (max 3 retries)
- Index Corruption: Maintain backup indices; rebuild from source if corrupted
- Memory Overflow: Use quantization (4-bit, 8-bit) to reduce memory by 4-32x
- Stale Embeddings: Implement TTL-based refresh for dynamic content
- Dimension Mismatch: Validate embedding dimensions (384 for sentence-transformers) before insertion
Guardrails & Safety
- NEVER expose database connection strings in logs or error messages
- ALWAYS validate vector dimensions before insertion
- ALWAYS sanitize metadata to prevent injection attacks
- NEVER store PII in vector metadata without encryption
- ALWAYS implement access control for multi-tenant deployments
- ALWAYS validate search results before returning to users
What ships with it
14 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.
- examples/data-migration-example.js 13 KB runs code
- examples/pattern-learning-example.js 13 KB runs code
- examples/trajectory-optimization-example.js 14 KB runs code
- resources/agentdb-config.yaml 4.1 KB
- resources/learning-optimizer.py 12 KB runs code
- resources/learning-params.yaml 5.7 KB
- resources/migration-tool.py 14 KB runs code
- resources/pattern-matcher.js 8.5 KB runs code
- resources/pattern-schema.json 6.4 KB
- resources/trajectory-tracker.sh 8.3 KB runs code
- SKILL-meta.yaml 422 B
- tests/test-migration.js 10 KB runs code
- tests/test-pattern-matching.js 11 KB runs code
- tests/test-trajectory-tracking.sh 9.0 KB runs code
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 542 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 65c71ff382ab
reasoningbank-with-agentdb is a skill published in the GitHub repository DNYoussef/context-cascade (32 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 3,820 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
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