locus-palace-init

locus-palace-init is a skill for Claude Code from Nano-Nimbus/locus. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,211 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup tool that builds a Locus memory palace from Claude project memory files, creating an index and one organised room per project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Importing existing memory files, previewing the planned import, creating room files, and optionally replacing rooms that already exist.
Why use it?
It converts scattered project memory into a structured collection that is easier to browse and maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Importing existing memory files, previewing the planned import, creating room files, and optionally replacing rooms that already exist.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nano-nimbus/locus/locus-palace-init
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Nano-Nimbus/locus --skill locus-palace-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nano-Nimbus/locus

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,211 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 $0.00073 $0.02211
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01105
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00221

Measured yesterday against content hash 23d7a8cc4381, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

locus-palace-init 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 yesterday.

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/claude/locus-palace-init/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Locus Palace Init

Bootstrap a structured memory palace from existing flat session memory files (e.g. ~/.claude/projects/*/memory/MEMORY.md).


Step 1 — Resolve arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

  • --source <dir> — root to scan for memory files (default: ~/.claude/projects/)
  • --palace <dir> — palace root to write into (default: ~/.locus/)
  • --dry-run — print the plan, write nothing
  • --overwrite — replace existing room files (default: skip rooms that already exist)

Set defaults for any omitted flags.


Step 2 — Discover source memory files

  1. Glob <source>/*/memory/MEMORY.md to find all candidate files.
  2. For each match, record:
    • slug — the project directory name (the * part of the glob path)
    • memory_path — full path to MEMORY.md
    • Any additional .md files in the same memory/ directory (specialty files)
  3. Report: "Found N source memory files."
  4. If none found, stop and tell the user to check the --source path.

Step 3 — Parse each memory file

For each source memory file, extract:

Field How to find it
title First # Heading in the file
summary First non-blank paragraph after the heading (≤3 sentences)
tech_tags Comma-separated keywords inferred from headings and bullet lists (e.g., "kubernetes", "python", "terraform")
status Look for "Current phase", "Status", "Milestone", or "v0.x" markers
key_files Lines matching a path pattern (/, ~/, ./) in file-reference context

Keep each extraction to the first 150 lines of the file — do not load the full file if avoidable.


Step 4 — Sort and group projects

Assign each project to a group using these heuristics (first match wins):

Group Heuristic
infra tech_tags contain: kubernetes, terraform, ansible, k3s, proxmox, flux, docker
tools tech_tags contain: cli, mcp, sdk, plugin, extension
data tech_tags contain: python, jupyter, pandas, ml, model, dataset
docs tech_tags contain: wiki, obsidian, markdown, docs, blog
projects everything else

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. yesterday Changed · +43 lines 23d7a8cc4381
  2. 10d ago First seen · 203 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 66918e36085b

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locus-palace-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nano-Nimbus/locus (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,211 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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