What is Setting up Hyperspell?

A step-by-step guide for adding Hyperspell to a project. Hyperspell is a service whose SDK can collect, search, and automatically trace project-related memory for an application.

Setting up Hyperspell in TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python projects, including memory collection, memory search, and optional automatic tracing.

It helps avoid missing setup tasks such as installing the SDK, adding an API key, choosing how to collect data, and enabling search.

Setting up Hyperspell — Skill for Claude Code by hyperspell/claude

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.

Any agent

npx skills add hyperspell/claude --skill setup-hyperspell

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hyperspell/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install setup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,035 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00017	$0.02035
Opus 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00814
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00407
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00203

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d4d86c81f0d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Setting up Hyperspell 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 2mo 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.

setup/skills/setup-hyperspell/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Hyperspell

Instructions

Copy this checklist and track your progress:

Implementation Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Install the Hyperspell SDK
- [ ] Step 2: Configure the API Key
- [ ] Step 3: Detect Project Type
- [ ] Step 4: Choose Memory Ingestion Method
- [ ] Step 5: Set Up Memory Ingestion
- [ ] Step 6: Set Up Memory Search
- [ ] Step 7: Enable Auto-Trace (Optional)
- [ ] Step 8: Wrapping Up

Run the following command and note the output as $START_TIME:

date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ

Step 1: Install the Hyperspell SDK

Determine whether the hyperspell SDK is already installed. If not, install it:

For TypeScript/JavaScript projects: npm i hyperspell or yarn add hyperspell
For Python projects: uv add hyperspell or pip install hyperspell (use whatever package manager the project uses)

Step 2: Configure the API Key

When the user invoked this command, they may have passed an API key as an argument: '$1'

If that string is blank or not a valid API key, display this message and wait for the user to paste their key:

Please paste your Hyperspell API key below.

If you don't have one yet, create one at https://app.hyperspell.com/api-keys

Do NOT use a multiple choice menu for this step - just ask directly and let the user paste their key.

Once you have the API key, put it in .env.local (or .env if .env.local doesn't exist) as HYPERSPELL_API_KEY.

If this project contains an .env.example, also put a dummy key in there (HYPERSPELL_API_KEY=hs-0-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Step 3: Detect Project Type

Follow the instructions in detect_project.md to analyze the codebase and determine:

Repo type: Backend, Frontend-only, or Monorepo/Fullstack
Language: TypeScript/JavaScript or Python
Framework: Next.js (App/Pages Router), Express, FastAPI, SPA, etc.
Auth system: Clerk, Auth0, NextAuth, custom, or none
AI SDK: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, or none

Store these detection results for use in subsequent steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 202 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A d4d86c81f0d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Setting up Hyperspell is a skill published in the GitHub repository hyperspell/claude (15 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 2,035 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Memory and context

Setting up Hyperspell next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
Setting up Hyperspellhyperspell/claude	Skill	15	7mo ago	MIT	A	17	Claude Code
knowledge-ingestopenclaw/openclaw	Skill	394k	today	MIT	A	80	Claude Code, Codex
forgetasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks	Skill	71k	2d ago	CC0-1.0	A	0	Claude Code, Codex
mem0-oss-to-platformmem0ai/mem0	Skill	69k	3d ago	Apache-2.0	A	217	Claude Code, Codex
Cortexdanielmiessler/LifeOS	Skill	20k	4d ago	MIT	A	184	Claude Code
memoryopensquilla/opensquilla	Skill	7.1k	3d ago	Apache-2.0	A	44	Claude Code, Codex
ha-data-storesshiwenwen/hope-agent	Skill	1.9k	today	MIT	A	115	Claude Code, Codex