memory-management

memory-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jsattler/agentic-productivity. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,278 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A two-level memory setup for coding agents that stores workplace context, such as people, projects, preferences, acronyms, and internal terms. It uses a short frequently used file and a larger knowledge base.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to maintain team and project context, decode names and abbreviations, and make recurring workplace requests easier to interpret.
Why use it?
It helps an agent understand shorthand and internal language that would otherwise be unclear or ambiguous.

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/jsattler/agentic-productivity/memory-management
Any agent
npx skills add jsattler/agentic-productivity --skill memory-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jsattler/agentic-productivity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,278 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 $0.00052 $0.02278
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01139
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00456
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00228

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1c84238d2a10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-management 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.

skills/memory-management/SKILL.md · 355 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 355 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Management

Memory makes agents your workplace collaborator - someone who speaks your internal language.

The Goal

Transform shorthand into understanding:

User: "ask todd to do the PSR for oracle"
              ↓ Agent decodes
"Ask Todd Martinez (Finance lead) to prepare the Pipeline Status Report
 for the Oracle Systems deal ($2.3M, closing Q2)"

Without memory, that request is meaningless. With memory, the agent knows:

  • todd → Todd Martinez, Finance lead, prefers Slack
  • PSR → Pipeline Status Report (weekly sales doc)
  • oracle → Oracle Systems deal, not the company

Architecture

AGENTS.md          ← Hot cache (~30 people, common terms)
memory/
  glossary.md      ← Full decoder ring (everything)
  people/          ← Complete profiles
  projects/        ← Project details
  context/         ← Company, teams, tools

AGENTS.md (Hot Cache):

  • Top ~30 people you interact with most
  • ~30 most common acronyms/terms
  • Active projects (5-15)
  • Your preferences
  • Goal: Cover 90% of daily decoding needs

memory/glossary.md (Full Glossary):

  • Complete decoder ring - everyone, every term
  • Searched when something isn't in AGENTS.md
  • Can grow indefinitely

memory/people/, projects/, context/:

  • Rich detail when needed for execution
  • Full profiles, history, context

Lookup Flow

User: "ask todd about the PSR for phoenix"

1. Check AGENTS.md (hot cache)
   → Todd? ✓ Todd Martinez, Finance
   → PSR? ✓ Pipeline Status Report
   → Phoenix? ✓ DB migration project

2. If not found → search memory/glossary.md
   → Full glossary has everyone/everything

3. If still not found → ask user
   → "What does X mean? I'll remember it."

This tiered approach keeps AGENTS.md lean (~100 lines) while supporting unlimited scale in memory/.

File Locations

  • Working memory: AGENTS.md in current working directory
  • Deep memory: memory/ subdirectory

Working Memory Format (AGENTS.md)

Use tables for compactness. Target ~50-80 lines total.

Read the full file on GitHub · 355 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 · 355 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 1c84238d2a10

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memory-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository jsattler/agentic-productivity (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,278 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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