memory-load-reduction

memory-load-reduction is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (528 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of design patterns that reduces how much information users must remember between screens, steps, or visits. It keeps important context visible and carries known information forward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing multi-step forms, dashboards, comparison tools, shopping flows, financial screens, or features such as saved preferences and recently used items.
Why use it?
People can forget selections, search terms, totals, or form details while completing a task. The patterns reduce repeated questions and mistakes caused by relying on memory.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cognitive-accessibility plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing multi-step forms, dashboards, comparison tools, shopping flows, financial screens, or features such as saved preferences and recently used items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/memory-load-reduction
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 Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill memory-load-reduction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cognitive-accessibility, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 528 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 $0.00076 $0.00528
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00053

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9f44acc844d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-load-reduction 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 11d 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.

cognitive-accessibility/skills/memory-load-reduction/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Load Reduction

Design systems that remember so users don't have to. Working memory holds roughly 4 items. Every piece of information the user must carry across screens, steps, or sessions is a potential failure point.

Core Principle

If the system can remember it, the user shouldn't have to.

Design Patterns

Persistent Context

  • Show key selections throughout a multi-step flow (chosen product, plan, date visible on every step)
  • Display running totals in shopping and financial contexts
  • Keep the user's search query visible in results
  • In multi-step forms, show a summary sidebar of completed steps

Forward Carry

  • Never re-ask information the system already has
  • Pre-fill fields from earlier steps or previous sessions
  • Carry context between screens (if the user selected "Business", don't ask "Personal or Business?" again)
  • Remember user preferences across sessions

External Memory Aids

  • "Compare" features so users don't need to remember options
  • Recently viewed and recently used lists
  • Copy-to-clipboard for reference numbers and codes
  • Print-friendly versions of complex information
  • Bookmarking or favouriting for later reference

Save and Resume

  • Auto-save progress in any flow longer than 3 steps
  • Allow users to return to where they left off
  • Show when progress was last saved
  • Send a reminder link for abandoned multi-step tasks
  • Never require starting over when a session expires

Chunked Process

  • Break tasks into 3–7 clearly labelled steps
  • One decision per step where possible
  • Allow forward and backward movement between steps
  • Show progress: "Step 2 of 4: Choose your plan"
  • Provide a review/summary screen before final submission

Assessment Questions

  1. Does the user need to remember anything from a previous screen?
  2. Is any information hidden that the user might need to reference?
  3. Can the user leave and come back without losing progress?
  4. Are there places where the user needs to transfer information between screens manually (e.g., write down a code)?
  5. Does the system re-ask for information it already knows?

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 11d ago First seen · 61 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 9f44acc844d2

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memory-load-reduction is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills (98 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 528 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 2026-08-30.

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