agent-memory-systems

agent-memory-systems is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from henryalouf/ruflow. It costs 51 tokens per session (6,787 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-memory-systems, MIT.

Guidance for designing agent memory: the information an AI agent keeps, retrieves, and uses across interactions. It covers short-term context, long-term storage such as vector databases, and different kinds of remembered information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning working, episodic, factual, or procedural memory; choosing how to split and search information; managing old memories; and testing retrieval before release.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from forgetting useful context or storing facts they cannot find later. It focuses on retrieving the right information, not simply storing more of it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00051 $0.06787
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.03393
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00679

Measured 5d ago against content hash abee0fd5879e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-memory-systems 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 5d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to agent-memory-systems — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/agent-memory-systems/SKILL.md · 1,085 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,085 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Memory Systems

Memory is the cornerstone of intelligent agents. Without it, every interaction starts from zero. This skill covers the architecture of agent memory: short-term (context window), long-term (vector stores), and the cognitive architectures that organize them.

Key insight: Memory isn't just storage - it's retrieval. A million stored facts mean nothing if you can't find the right one. Chunking, embedding, and retrieval strategies determine whether your agent remembers or forgets.

The field is fragmented with inconsistent terminology. We use the CoALA cognitive architecture framework: semantic memory (facts), episodic memory (experiences), and procedural memory (how-to knowledge).

Principles

  • Memory quality = retrieval quality, not storage quantity
  • Chunk for retrieval, not for storage
  • Context isolation is the enemy of memory
  • Right memory type for right information
  • Decay old memories - not everything should be forever
  • Test retrieval accuracy before production
  • Background memory formation beats real-time

Capabilities

  • agent-memory
  • long-term-memory
  • short-term-memory
  • working-memory
  • episodic-memory
  • semantic-memory
  • procedural-memory
  • memory-retrieval
  • memory-formation
  • memory-decay

Scope

  • vector-database-operations → data-engineer
  • rag-pipeline-architecture → llm-architect
  • embedding-model-selection → ml-engineer
  • knowledge-graph-design → knowledge-engineer

Tooling

Memory_frameworks

  • LangMem (LangChain) - When: LangGraph agents with persistent memory Note: Semantic, episodic, procedural memory types
  • MemGPT / Letta - When: Virtual context management, OS-style memory Note: Hierarchical memory tiers, automatic paging
  • Mem0 - When: User memory layer for personalization Note: Designed for user preferences and history

Vector_stores

  • Pinecone - When: Managed, enterprise-scale (billions of vectors) Note: Best query performance, highest cost
  • Qdrant - When: Complex metadata filtering, open-source Note: Rust-based, excellent filtering
  • Weaviate - When: Hybrid search, knowledge graph features Note: GraphQL interface, good for relationships
  • ChromaDB - When: Prototyping, small/medium apps Note: Developer-friendly, ~20ms p50 at 100K vectors
  • pgvector - When: Already using PostgreSQL, simpler setup Note: Good for <1M vectors, familiar tooling

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,085 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. 5d ago First seen · 1,085 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A abee0fd5879e

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agent-memory-systems is a skill published in the GitHub repository henryalouf/ruflow (123 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 6,787 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to agent-memory-systems, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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