memory-starter-kit

memory-starter-kit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mage0535/hermes-memory-installer. It costs 15 tokens per session (310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A historical note about an older memory sidecar system, kept to explain how that system changed into the current three-layer version. A sidecar is a separate helper process that supports an application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding the project's history, mapping old Hermes deployments to current interfaces, and identifying legacy helpers that are no longer shipped.
Why use it?
It prevents confusion when older Hermes deployments or instructions refer to components that are no longer part of the standard installation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/mage0535/hermes-memory-installer/memory-starter-kit
Any agent
npx skills add mage0535/hermes-memory-installer --skill memory-starter-kit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mage0535/hermes-memory-installer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 310 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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00310
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00155
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 6d ago against content hash a7320bf6a0e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-starter-kit 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 6d 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-starter-kit/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Memory Starter Kit

Hermes-only historical note: this skill is kept for repository continuity, not as a current portable install contract.

Current Status

The old four-layer description is obsolete. The maintained local/public build is the three-layer sidecar documented in:

  • README.md
  • ARCHITECTURE.md
  • docs/compatibility-matrix.md

Use This Skill For

  • understanding the historical evolution of the project
  • mapping old Hermes deployments to the current sidecar surfaces
  • identifying which older helpers are no longer part of the default install set

Do Not Use This Skill As

  • a production installation guide
  • a multi-agent compatibility contract
  • a source of current runtime dependencies

Current Portable Runtime

Use the installed scripts under $AGENT_HOME/scripts/ together with:

  • session_to_gbrain.py
  • memory_governance_rebuild.py
  • tiered_context_injector.py
  • memory_guardian.py
  • memory_maintenance_cycle.py
  • sidecar_acceptance_check.py

Historical Notes

  • older Hermes deployments used additional local helpers not shipped by the current installer
  • legacy bridge layers mentioned in earlier versions were removed from the maintained public stack
  • if a teammate is working from old notes, reconcile them against docs/compatibility-matrix.md before changing runtime behavior
Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 51 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A a7320bf6a0e5

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memory-starter-kit is a skill published in the GitHub repository mage0535/hermes-memory-installer (204 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 310 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 2026-08-30.

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