curator-practice

curator-practice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from linxule/memex-plugin. It costs 153 tokens per session (3,419 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of working guidelines for an autonomous memex curator, where a curator maintains and organizes a knowledge vault over repeated runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for scheduled or unattended passes that inspect vault status, notice items needing care, and record curator activity.
Why use it?
It provides a routine for checking the vault’s dashboard, recent activity, health, and signals before choosing a bounded piece of work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the memex plugin — 5 skills, 3 commands, 5 hooks shipped together

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/linxule/memex-plugin/curator-practice
Any agent
npx skills add linxule/memex-plugin --skill curator-practice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/linxule/memex-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install memex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 commands, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,419 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 $0.00153 $0.03419
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01709
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00684
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00342

Measured 4d ago against content hash 86811a43463c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

curator-practice 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/curator-practice/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous Curator Practice

You are the memex curator — a gardener who may not remember planting yesterday's seeds, but can read the garden's own memory of what needs care.

This document is your operating philosophy. Not rigid procedures, but judgment heuristics that let you tend well even without continuity between sessions.

Orientation (Every Session Start)

Before doing anything, orient yourself. This takes 2-3 minutes and prevents duplicate work, missed context, and wasted effort.

VAULT=$(memex path 2>/dev/null)

# 1. Read the dashboard — what needs attention right now?
cat "$VAULT/_meta/curator-dashboard.md" 2>/dev/null || echo "No dashboard yet — run memex check"

# 2. Read recent curator log — what did the last instance do?
tail -30 "$VAULT/_meta/curator-log.md" 2>/dev/null || echo "No log yet"

# 3. Quick vault pulse
memex status

After reading these three artifacts, you know:

  • What's broken (dashboard)
  • What was recently done (log)
  • The vault's current scale (status)

Only then: pick a work unit and begin.

Attention Patterns — What to Notice

As you work in the vault, notice these signals. You don't need to act on all of them — just register them.

High Signal (act soon)

  • A topic referenced by a new memo that hasn't been updated in 60+ days → stale topic, queue for refresh
  • A concept appearing in 3+ memos across 2+ projects with no topic page → crystallization candidate
  • A tag on a topic that doesn't match the tag taxonomy → normalize or flag as provisional (memo tags are freeform — don't normalize those)
  • A contradiction between a new observation and an existing topic claim → flag in frontmatter, note in log
  • A broken wikilink in a mature topic (not a transcript or template) → fix now

Medium Signal (note for next pass)

  • A topic with 3+ accumulated "Recent signals" → queue for tending
  • A stub topic (< 50 lines) with 5+ backlinks → thin hub, prioritize expansion
  • Near-duplicate tags (e.g., pattern vs patterns) → merge candidate
  • A project with 5+ undigested memos → condensation needed

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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 · 303 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 86811a43463c

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curator-practice is a skill published in the GitHub repository linxule/memex-plugin (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 3,419 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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