memory-garden

memory-garden is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DojoGenesis/mcp. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,238 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A three-level method for organizing institutional knowledge over time. It covers daily notes, turning past sessions into concise lessons, and deciding which information should be kept.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for daily notes, summarizing sessions, moving useful information between memory levels, and applying a three-month rule to decide what remains important.
Why use it?
It prevents memory and project notes from becoming an unstructured collection that makes future work harder.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,238 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 $0.00067 $0.03238
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01619
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00648
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00324

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1fa7b704a066, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-garden 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.

internal/skills/bundled/wisdom-garden/memory-garden/SKILL.md · 481 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 481 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Garden

Version: 1.1 Author: Tres Pies Design Purpose: Write structured, semantically rich memory entries for efficient context management using a three-tier hierarchy and growth semantics.


I. Philosophy: Memory is a Garden, Not a Landfill

Memory should be cultivated, not accumulated. A garden requires tending -- planting what matters, composting what doesn't, and harvesting wisdom when it's ripe. The three-tier hierarchy ensures that raw experiences are refined into lasting wisdom, and that context windows remain fertile ground for new thinking rather than overgrown thickets of old data.

Growth language is not decoration -- it's a thinking tool. When we say "plant" instead of "create," we prime ourselves to consider whether this seed will actually grow. When we say "compost" instead of "delete," we acknowledge that even released material contributed to the soil.

The 3-month rule is the gardener's pruning shears: if it won't matter in 3 months, it doesn't deserve permanent cultivation.


II. When to Use This Skill

  • Writing a daily note after a session or workday
  • Deciding where an artifact belongs in the three-tier hierarchy
  • Compressing Tier A notes into Tier B wisdom or Tier C archives
  • Running a garden health check to identify stale or overgrown areas
  • Onboarding someone to the memory garden structure
  • Choosing what to cultivate vs. compost from a long session

When NOT to use: If the content is a one-time reference (API docs, config values) that doesn't evolve, it's documentation, not a garden artifact. If it's a reusable pattern, it's a seed -- use the seed-extraction skill.


III. The Three-Tier Hierarchy

Tier A: Raw Daily Notes

Purpose: Capture everything from today's session Lifespan: 1-3 days before compression Location: notes/YYYY-MM-DD_daily.md

Template sections:

  1. Key Activities (2-3 bullets)
  2. Decisions Made (with rationale)
  3. Seeds Discovered (with trigger)
  4. Open Questions (to carry forward)
  5. Tomorrow's Growth (next steps)

Read the full file on GitHub · 481 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. 4d ago First seen · 481 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 1fa7b704a066

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memory-garden is a skill published in the GitHub repository DojoGenesis/mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,238 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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