init

init is a skill for Claude Code from grpcer/ownmem. It costs 43 tokens per session (396 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup skill for OwnMem, a local memory system for coding agents, inside the current project repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize OwnMem for Claude Code or Codex, choose memory layers, add an optional recall hook, and check or audit the installation.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to install or update OwnMem while preserving existing host instructions outside its generated sections.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the ownmem plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to initialize OwnMem for Claude Code or Codex, choose memory layers, add an optional recall hook, and check or audit the installation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/grpcer/ownmem/init
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add grpcer/ownmem --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grpcer/ownmem

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ownmem, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 396 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 13
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 28
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 29
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 37
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.00396
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00158
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 24d ago against content hash 610328b61fbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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 24d 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:

plugins/ownmem/skills/init/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Set up OwnMem in this repository

OwnMem requires Node.js 20.6 or newer. Install the reviewed dependency, then generate the host adapters:

npm install --save-dev ownmem
npx ownmem init --hook --hosts claude,codex

Adjust the flags before running:

  • --hosts: any comma-separated combination of claude, codex, cursor, gemini, grok, and generic — match the tools the team uses. The list is recorded, and running init again with a new list is how a host is added or removed. Grok CLI reads Claude Code's files, so name it alongside claude when both are used.
  • --locale auto writes the generated instructions in the system language; the default is English.
  • Drop --hook if the team does not want the recall hooks. --hook also installs the layers those hooks need, up to the local Web console; --layers core,gates,compiler,dashboard installs a subset instead.

Initialization creates .ownmem/ plus bounded ownmem-generated blocks in the host instructions, and preserves every line outside those boundaries. Verify:

npx ownmem init --check
npx ownmem audit

The npm package is the engine. This plugin is an optional shortcut and does not auto-update on every host. After a version bump (for example a Dependabot pull request):

npx ownmem init --update && npx ownmem init --check && npx ownmem audit
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. 24d ago Changed · +5 lines 610328b61fbb
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines a099fe07357e
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 626444b37bfd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository grpcer/ownmem (429 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 396 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 2026-08-30.

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