ciel-knowledge-and-memory

ciel-knowledge-and-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 26 tokens per session (527 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A system for collecting project knowledge, storing useful information across sessions, searching memory, and exploring code structure before reading details.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used to organize live project information, user preferences, semantic memories, research notes, and targeted code exploration.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated investigation and helps agents retrieve relevant context without loading an entire codebase or memory store.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It is used to organize live project information, user preferences, semantic memories, research notes, and targeted code exploration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/ciel-knowledge-and-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 jxoesneon/Ciel --skill ciel-knowledge-and-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 527 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.
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 $0.00026 $0.00527
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3bb27c2f6ddc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ciel-knowledge-and-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 5d 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/ciel-knowledge-and-memory/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

CIEL ADAPTATION: Knowledge & Memory (The Intel Layer)

This skill manages the flow of information from live codebase structure to durable cross-session memory.

Knowledge Ingestion (Layers)

  1. Active (L1): GitHub/Linear for live roadmap and implementation truth.
  2. Short-term (L2): Project memory files (~/.claude/projects/*/memory/) for user preferences.
  3. Semantic (L3): MCP Memory Server for structured knowledge graphs and observations.
  4. Durable (L4): Dedicated knowledge base repo for curated research and synthesized docs.

Memory Search (Index -> Timeline -> Fetch)

  • Mandate: NEVER fetch full details without filtering first.
  • Protocol:
    1. Search: Get a table of IDs and Titles to minimize tokens.
    2. Timeline: Interleave sessions and observations around an anchor ID to find context.
    3. Fetch: Batch-get only the 2-3 most relevant full observations.

Structural Exploration (Smart Explore)

  • Map First: Use smart_search or smart_outline (AST-based) before performing a full read_file.
  • Unfold: Review signatures and unfold ONLY the implementation of specific functions/methods needed.
  • Token Efficiency: Target 4-8x token savings vs raw file reads.

Anti-Patterns

  • The Context Dump: Reading 10+ full files when a structural map would suffice.
  • Amnesiac Session: Starting work without checking MCP memory for previous decisions.
  • Durable-Code Drift: Storing live application code in a knowledge base instead of the Git repo.
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. 5d ago First seen · 53 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 3bb27c2f6ddc

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ciel-knowledge-and-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 527 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 2026-09-03.

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