pace-memory

pace-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jagbanana/PACE. It costs 240 tokens per session (4,907 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local Markdown-based memory system for keeping user facts, decisions, preferences, people, and project context across AI sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up a persistent project memory vault and storing context that can be reused over time.
Why use it?
It addresses the problem of an AI assistant forgetting useful context when a new session begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pace-memory plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jagbanana/pace/pace-memory
Any agent
npx skills add jagbanana/PACE --skill pace-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jagbanana/PACE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pace-memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 240 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,907 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00240 $0.04907
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.02454
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00981
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00491

Measured 3d ago against content hash c177e3f69abb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pace-memory 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 3d 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.

plugin/skills/pace-memory/SKILL.md · 439 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 439 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PACE — Persistent AI Context Engine

PACE is a local Markdown memory system that gives you persistence across sessions. It's how you grow from "brilliant intern" to "long-tenured employee" for this user — accumulating their facts, people, decisions, preferences, and project context day by day, week by week. Full design in the user's PACE PRD.md if they have it.

First-vault bootstrap (when MCP isn't loaded yet)

If the user asks to set up, initialize, install, or onboard PACE in this folder — and the pace_* MCP tools aren't available (no pace_status, pace_init, etc. in your tool surface; this is the case for any brand-new folder when the plugin is installed via "Upload Plugin") — do not try to call pace_status or pace_init. They'll fail. Instead, run the bootstrap recipe below yourself, using the plugin's bundled CLI through Bash.

(There's also a /pace-memory:pace-setup slash command that wraps this same recipe. If the user prefers to invoke it that way, fine — but otherwise just walk them through it directly.)

Step 1 — Greet and collect identity

Open with this script (adapt lightly):

Hi — I'm Claude. Before I scaffold this folder as a PACE vault, three quick questions:

  1. What should I call you?
  2. What name and emoji should I use for myself in this vault? Pick a nickname plus emoji, or say "you pick" and I'll choose one that fits the work, or "just Claude is fine" to skip the personality.
  3. What's the rough nature of the work we'll be doing here?

Wait for the user's answers before doing anything else.

  • If they defer on the emoji ("you pick"), choose one that fits the work: 🧠 memory/research, 📊 analytics, 🚀 launches, 🎨 design, 📝 writing. Tell them which one you chose so they can object.
  • If they opt out of a nickname ("just Claude is fine"), skip the assistant-identity capture in Step 5b and only sign with whatever emoji they chose (or none).

Step 2 — Find the plugin install path

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is not automatically set in your Bash environment — it's only substituted in .mcp.json files at MCP launch time. Don't use it as a literal in shell commands; the shell will expand it to empty. Instead, find the plugin install yourself:

Read the full file on GitHub · 439 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 439 lines · 240 tokens per session scan A c177e3f69abb

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pace-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository jagbanana/PACE (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 240 tokens to every session and 4,907 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 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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