lcm-memory

lcm-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lossless-claude/lcm. It costs 16 tokens per session (496 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of lcm-memory, MIT.

A persistent memory system for coding work that searches stored project knowledge before a task and saves important results afterward. Its memory survives between sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search previous decisions and code notes, inspect stored details, find exact patterns, and record important completed work for later tasks.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated investigation and helps the agent retain implementation details that would otherwise disappear when a conversation ends.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the lcm plugin — 7 skills, 10 commands, 4 agents 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/lossless-claude/lcm/skill
Any agent
npx skills add lossless-claude/lcm --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lossless-claude/lcm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install lcm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 10 commands, 4 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for lcm-memory

README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 496 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00016 $0.00496
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00248
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00050

Measured 5d ago against content hash 78596dc5d539, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lcm-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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to lcm-memory — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

src/connectors/templates/skill/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

Lossless Context Management

Before responding to code tasks, check memory first. Code task? → lcm search FIRST. Completed work? → lcm store BEFORE done.

You have access to a persistent memory system that survives across conversations.

Workflow

Code task received → lcm search FIRST → Work → lcm store → Done Non-code task → Just respond normally

Commands

1. Search Memory

Retrieve relevant context before starting work.

lcm search "How is authentication implemented?"

2. Grep Memory

Regex pattern search for precise matches.

lcm grep "createDaemon|startMcpServer" --mode regex

3. Describe Memory

Inspect a specific node returned by search or grep.

lcm describe sum_abc123def456

4. Expand Memory

Recover lower-level detail from a summary node.

lcm expand sum_abc123def456 --depth 2

5. Store Knowledge

Persist important knowledge after completing work.

lcm store "Auth middleware uses JWT with 24h expiry. See src/middleware/auth.ts"

6. Stats

Show token savings and compression ratios.

lcm stats

Decision Table

Task Type Search? Store?
Add/create/implement feature MUST MUST
Fix/debug/resolve bug MUST MUST
Refactor/optimize/move code MUST MUST
Write/add tests MUST MUST
"How does X work?" (codebase) MUST Only if insights
General concept question NO NO
Meta task (run tests, build) NO NO
Git task (commit, PR, push) NO NO

Error Handling

  • If lcm is not found: run npm install -g @lossless-claude/lcm
  • If daemon is down: run lcm daemon start --detach
  • If search returns nothing: memory may be empty — proceed normally
  • Check status: lcm doctor
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 · 75 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 78596dc5d539

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lcm-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository lossless-claude/lcm (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 496 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to lcm-memory, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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