memorise

memorise is a skill for Claude Code from jmylchreest/aide. It costs 18 tokens per session (2,724 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for saving important project knowledge as persistent memories, such as lessons, decisions, patterns, and known pitfalls.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps record codebase learnings, architectural decisions, reusable approaches, problems to avoid, and summaries of completed work.
Why use it?
It prevents useful context from being lost between work sessions or having to be rediscovered later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is Bash(./.aide/bin/aide memory add *).

Part of the aide plugin — 25 skills, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps record codebase learnings, architectural decisions, reusable approaches, problems to avoid, and summaries of completed work.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmylchreest/aide
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jmylchreest/aide/memorise

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aide, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 9 agents.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,724 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: 2 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 68
    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 Excessive Agency · line 139
    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 $0.00018 $0.02724
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01362
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00272

Measured 12d ago against content hash ae740c5f19e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memorise 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 12d 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.

skills/memorise/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memorise

Recommended model tier: balanced (sonnet) - this skill performs straightforward operations

Capture important information for future sessions by storing it in the aide memory database.

How to Store

Use the ./.aide/bin/aide memory add CLI command via Bash:

./.aide/bin/aide memory add --category=<category> --tags=<comma,separated,tags> "<content>"

Binary location: The aide binary is at .aide/bin/aide. If it's on your $PATH, you can use aide directly.

Categories

  • learning - Something discovered about the codebase or tools
  • decision - An architectural or design choice made
  • session - Summary of a work session
  • pattern - A reusable approach or pattern identified
  • gotcha - A pitfall or issue to avoid in future
  • abandoned - An approach that was tried and abandoned (see Abandoned Approaches below)

When to Use

  • End of a significant task or session
  • After discovering something important about the codebase
  • When a decision is made that should persist
  • After solving a tricky problem (capture the solution)
  • When user shares a preference or important information

Examples

Simple preference (global - injected at session start)

./.aide/bin/aide memory add --category=learning --tags=preferences,colour,scope:global,source:user "User's favourite colour is blue"

Technical learning (project-specific, verified)

./.aide/bin/aide memory add --category=learning --tags=testing,vitest,project:myapp,session:abc12345,source:discovered,verified:true "Vitest requires .js extensions for ESM imports even for .ts files. Configure moduleResolution: NodeNext in tsconfig."

Session summary

./.aide/bin/aide memory add --category=session --tags=auth,api,project:myapp,session:abc12345,source:discovered "Implemented JWT auth with 15min access tokens, 7day refresh tokens in httpOnly cookies. Files: src/auth/jwt.ts, src/middleware/auth.ts, src/routes/auth.ts"

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 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. 12d ago First seen · 272 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A ae740c5f19e7

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memorise is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmylchreest/aide (17 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 2,724 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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