agent-memory-systems

agent-memory-systems is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from humaisali/Awesome-AI-Skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (6,843 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-memory-systems, MIT.

A guide to designing memory for AI agents, including temporary context and long-term storage such as searchable vector databases. It also explains ways to organize facts, experiences, and procedures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan how an agent stores, divides, retrieves, and eventually forgets information. It also helps define and test memory retrieval before release.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from starting every interaction without useful past information. It focuses on finding the right stored information, rather than simply keeping more of it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to plan how an agent stores, divides, retrieves, and eventually forgets information. It also helps define and test memory retrieval before release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/humaisali/awesome-ai-skills/agent-memory-systems
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add humaisali/Awesome-AI-Skills --skill agent-memory-systems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/humaisali/Awesome-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,843 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.
Origin 98% 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 $0.00051 $0.06843
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.03422
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00684

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6375c0f895ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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

98% identical to agent-memory-systems — 1,052 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.

AI-ML & Data Science Skills/Agents & LLMs/agent-memory-systems/SKILL.md · 1,089 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,089 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 · 1,089 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. 10d ago First seen · 1,089 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 6375c0f895ff

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agent-memory-systems is a skill published in the GitHub repository humaisali/Awesome-AI-Skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 6,843 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to agent-memory-systems, differing in 1,052 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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