project-memory

project-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. It costs 25 tokens per session (2,334 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A generator for CLAUDE.md project-memory files, which record project-specific knowledge for an AI coding assistant. These files are advisory instructions, not automatic enforcement rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding an assistant to a project or creating shared notes about its quirks, conventions, and institutional knowledge.
Why use it?
It helps pass important project conventions and unusual details to future coding sessions without documenting obvious general knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the project-templates-toolkit plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when onboarding an assistant to a project or creating shared notes about its quirks, conventions, and institutional knowledge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/project-memory
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 jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill project-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install project-templates-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,334 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 156
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 89
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 113
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00025 $0.02334
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01167
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00233

Measured 9d ago against content hash 27951714b5d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 9d 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.

project-templates-toolkit/skills/project-memory/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project memory generator

Create CLAUDE.md files that transfer institutional knowledge, not obvious information. Think like a senior journalist onboarding a competent colleague, you don't explain how journalism works, you explain YOUR project's quirks.

CLAUDE.md is advisory, not enforced

Anthropic is explicit on this point: CLAUDE.md content is delivered as a user message after the system prompt. Claude reads it and tries to follow it, but there's no guarantee of strict compliance, especially with vague or conflicting instructions. Source: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory

This affects how you write a CLAUDE.md and what you put elsewhere:

Mechanism Use for Source-of-truth
CLAUDE.md Standing facts, conventions, "always do X" rules Advisory
Skills Multi-step procedures, on-demand workflows Loaded when invoked
Hooks Actions that must happen every time, no exceptions Deterministic, runs as a shell command (e.g. hooks/one-way-door-check.md) or as a prompt the harness enforces (e.g. hooks/enforce-test-first.md)

If an instruction is "block writes to published/" or "run accessibility check before commit," that belongs in a hook, not CLAUDE.md. If it's "fact-check workflow" or "FOIA-letter drafting," that's a skill. CLAUDE.md is the place for things Claude must hold in every session.

What belongs in CLAUDE.md

Anthropic publishes an explicit include/exclude table for what makes an effective CLAUDE.md. Source: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices

✅ Include ❌ Exclude
Bash commands Claude can't guess Anything Claude can figure out by reading code
Code style rules that differ from defaults Standard language conventions Claude already knows
Testing instructions and preferred test runners Detailed API documentation (link to docs instead)
Repository etiquette (branch naming, PR conventions) Information that changes frequently
Architectural decisions specific to your project Long explanations or tutorials
Developer environment quirks (required env vars) File-by-file descriptions of the codebase
Common gotchas or non-obvious behaviors Self-evident practices like "write clean code"

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 200 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 27951714b5d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (389 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,334 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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