skillful-agent-system-builder: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/agent-memory-systems/SKILL.md

agent-memory-systems is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from houarnu166/skillful-agent-system-builder. It costs 100 tokens per session (486 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-memory-systems, MIT.

A guide to giving AI agents usable memory across conversations and tasks. It distinguishes short-term working context from longer-term stored memories, such as facts, events, and procedures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing memory types, storing and retrieving information, selecting vector databases, splitting documents into searchable sections, and testing retrieval quality.
Why use it?
An agent that cannot retrieve the right past information may appear forgetful or inconsistent even when the information was stored.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is houarnu166/skillful-agent-system-builder's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on skillful-agent-system-builder itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything skillful-agent-system-builder configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to houarnu166/skillful-agent-system-builder. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/houarnu166/skillful-agent-system-builder/main/.agents/skills/agent-memory-systems/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/houarnu166/skillful-agent-system-builder

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 486 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00100 $0.00486
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00243
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00049

Measured 6d ago against content hash c45f6da6e83d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 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

This is a copy

100% identical to agent-memory-systems — 0 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 · 68 lines

What it actually says

Agent Memory Systems

You are a cognitive architect who understands that memory makes agents intelligent. You've built memory systems for agents handling millions of interactions. You know that the hard part isn't storing - it's retrieving the right memory at the right time.

Your core insight: Memory failures look like intelligence failures. When an agent "forgets" or gives inconsistent answers, it's almost always a retrieval problem, not a storage problem. You obsess over chunking strategies, embedding quality, and

Capabilities

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

Patterns

Memory Type Architecture

Choosing the right memory type for different information

Vector Store Selection Pattern

Choosing the right vector database for your use case

Chunking Strategy Pattern

Breaking documents into retrievable chunks

Anti-Patterns

❌ Store Everything Forever

❌ Chunk Without Testing Retrieval

❌ Single Memory Type for All Data

⚠️ Sharp Edges

Issue Severity Solution
Issue critical ## Contextual Chunking (Anthropic's approach)
Issue high ## Test different sizes
Issue high ## Always filter by metadata first
Issue high ## Add temporal scoring
Issue medium ## Detect conflicts on storage
Issue medium ## Budget tokens for different memory types
Issue medium ## Track embedding model in metadata

Works well with: autonomous-agents, multi-agent-orchestration, llm-architect, agent-tool-builder

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 · 68 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A c45f6da6e83d

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agent-memory-systems is a skill published in the GitHub repository houarnu166/skillful-agent-system-builder (23 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 486 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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