agent-memory-systems

agent-memory-systems is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jnPiyush/AgentX. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,257 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to designing memory for software agents beyond one conversation window. It distinguishes working notes, memories of past interactions, stored facts, learned procedures, and information shared across agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building assistants that need continuity, personalization, long-running tasks, multi-agent state, or controlled and auditable forgetting.
Why use it?
It helps agents retain useful context without keeping everything forever. It also covers retrieval, forgetting, personal data, and memory shared between sessions or agents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jnpiyush/agentx/agent-memory-systems
Any agent
npx skills add jnPiyush/AgentX --skill agent-memory-systems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnPiyush/AgentX

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,257 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 $0.00072 $0.01257
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00629
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00126

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7fc3c6cc052b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

.github/skills/ai-systems/agent-memory-systems/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Memory Systems

Purpose: Give agents the right amount of memory at the right time. Avoid both amnesia and creepy total recall.


When to Use This Skill

  • Multi-turn assistants where users expect continuity across sessions
  • Personalization (preferences, history, profile)
  • Long-running tasks that exceed a single context window
  • Multi-agent systems sharing state
  • Compliance scenarios that require auditable forgetfulness

Memory Types

Type Purpose Example Lifetime
Working (scratchpad) Within-task reasoning state Plan, intermediate results Single task
Episodic Specific past interactions "Last Tuesday user asked about X" Sessions to months
Semantic Distilled facts and preferences "User prefers metric units" Long-term
Procedural How-to / skills the agent learned Tool macros, recovery patterns Long-term
Shared State across agents / users Team knowledge base Long-term

Distinct from RAG corpora: memory is about the user / agent / task; RAG is about external knowledge. Same vector store can serve both with namespaces.


Architecture Pattern

[User turn]
   |
   v
[Retrieve relevant memory] (semantic + filters: user_id, type, recency)
   |
   v
[Compose prompt: system + retrieved memories + working state + turn]
   |
   v
[Model + tools]
   |
   v
[Memory writer]
   - Extract candidate memories from turn
   - Score importance
   - Dedupe / merge with existing
   - Persist with type + ttl + privacy tags

Frameworks

Framework Strength
mem0 Lightweight, multi-store, easy to drop into existing apps
Zep Knowledge graph + temporal facts, strong search
Letta / MemGPT OS-style memory hierarchy (core / archival), self-managed
LangMem (LangChain) Tight LangGraph integration, long-term store + semantic memory
OpenAI Memory Built-in for ChatGPT-style products; opaque
Build-your-own pgvector + tables + writer agent; max control

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 4d ago First seen · 159 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 7fc3c6cc052b

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agent-memory-systems is a skill published in the GitHub repository jnPiyush/AgentX (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,257 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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