memory-management

memory-management is a skill for Claude Code from Kotrotsos/memento-core. It costs 17 tokens per session (553 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidelines for using Memento, a system for saving and retrieving persistent project memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
They cover when to save memories, when to recall them, how to search, and how to organize them by namespace and tags.
Why use it?
They help the agent remember important decisions and retrieve relevant context without searching every saved item.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the memento-core plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit They cover when to save memories, when to recall them, how to search, and how to organize them by namespace and tags.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kotrotsos/memento-core/memory-management
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 Kotrotsos/memento-core --skill memory-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kotrotsos/memento-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install memento-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 553 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 $0.00017 $0.00553
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00055

Measured 7d ago against content hash e128c6f8d295, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 7d 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 · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Management

You have access to the Memento MCP server for persistent memory. Use it proactively.

When to store

  • After completing a significant task: what was built, key decisions, file paths
  • When the user shares preferences or conventions
  • After debugging: root cause and solution
  • When discovering architecture patterns or project structure
  • After research that produced useful findings

When to recall

  • At the start of a session: search for context about the current project
  • When the user references past work or decisions
  • Before making architectural decisions: check for prior context

How to search effectively

  1. Start with memory_list_namespaces to see what domains exist
  2. Search with a focused query scoped to a specific namespace
  3. Use tags as pre-filters (they narrow before BM25 scoring)
  4. Only memory_recall the 1-3 most relevant results
  5. Never recall all search results

How to write good memories

  • Front-load the key fact (first 150 chars become the snippet)
  • Be specific: "Use JSONL for storage" not "We decided on a storage format"
  • One concept per memory
  • Always include at least one tag

Namespace strategy

Namespace Use for
global Cross-project knowledge
projects/<name> Project-specific context
people Person-related information
decisions Architectural/design decisions
procedures Repeatable workflows

Tag vocabulary

Tag Use for
architecture Design decisions, system structure
preference User preferences, settings
procedure How-to, workflows
person People information
project General project context
temporary Short-lived, pair with TTL
bug Known issues, workarounds
learned Lessons, insights
config Configuration, settings
api API details, endpoints

What NOT to store

  • Conversation transcripts (store conclusions, not chats)
  • Trivial changes (typo fixes, single-line edits)
  • Temporary debugging output
  • Information already in CLAUDE.md or project docs

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 7d ago First seen · 79 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A e128c6f8d295

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memory-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kotrotsos/memento-core (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 553 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 2026-08-31.

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