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.
npx skills add owrede/vault-memory --skill helpgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owrede/vault-memoryWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/owrede/vault-memory/help)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/owrede/vault-memory/help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/owrede/vault-memory/help/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/owrede/vault-memory/help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/owrede/vault-memory/help.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00053 | $0.00600 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00240 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00120 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00060 |
Grade A, and why
help 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/vmem:help — vmem command surface
vmem is the local-first agentic-memory layer for Obsidian. The marketplace plugin exposes the following verbs:
| Verb | What it does |
|---|---|
/vmem:install |
One-call install of vault-memory in this vault (CLI + Obsidian plugin + example contracts). Walks 9 idempotent checkpoints. |
/vmem:health |
Read-only diagnostic — checks CLI version, Ollama, configured models, every vault DB's integrity, uncommitted WAL state, and the MCP smoketest. PASS/WARN/FAIL per dimension. |
/vmem:reindex |
Rebuild the vector index for the current vault. Full re-index by default; pass --incremental for fast catch-up. |
/vmem:help |
(You are here.) |
Common workflows
| User intent | Command |
|---|---|
| First time setting up vault-memory in a vault | /vmem:install |
| Obsidian plugin shows "CLI not found" or "Could not load stats" | /vmem:install (re-runs the seeder for data.json and [plugin] enabled) |
| Memory tools disappeared after a system update | /vmem:health to diagnose, then /vmem:install if needed |
| Search returns stale results after large note import | /vmem:reindex --incremental |
| Switching embedding models or recovering from corrupt DB | /vmem:reindex (full) |
| Upgrade from v1.0.0 → v2 | /vmem:install — detects the older version, offers backup + destructive-confirmed upgrade path |
Related (in agent context, not slash surface)
After /vmem:install and a Claude Code restart, the agent has access to the mcp__vault-memory__* tool family:
mcp__vault-memory__search_hybrid— semantic + BM25 + RRFmcp__vault-memory__read_note/write_note/update_frontmattermcp__vault-memory__list_backlinks/list_forward_links- v2-only: typed-edge graph (
expand,cluster), briefs, task contracts
How to execute
This is an informational skill — print the table above and stop. No script side-effects.
bash "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/skills/help/help.sh"
Or just render the markdown table inline.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 56f068294dfa
help is a skill published in the GitHub repository owrede/vault-memory (0 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
mem0-oss-to-platform
Plan, then execute, a migration of a project from the mem0 open-source / self-hosted SDK (local Memory class) to the mem0 Platform / hosted SDK (MemoryClient). TRIGGER when: the developer wants to move, switch, or migrate mem0 off OSS/self-hosted to the hosted API, e.g. "migrate my mem0 setup to the platform", "switch…
forget
Remove a personal fact, preference, relationship detail, topic, or prior event from Muse's active memory and stop existing copies or automations from bringing it back. Use for explicit requests such as 'forget that', 'don't remember this about me', or 'remove that from your memory'. Do not use when 'forget it' merely…
Cortex
Operate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions, ISAs, and conversations. Search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, distill, graph-navigate, recall. USE WHEN cortex, knowledge, knowledge base, search…
memory
Use when the user asks to remember, recall, forget, update, search, or inspect durable OpenSquilla memory, including profile facts in USER.md and long-term notes in MEMORY.md or memory//.md.
ha-data-stores
Map of Hope Agent's local data stores and safe read-only query workflow. Use when the user asks where Hope Agent stores data, wants to inspect sessions/messages/memory/logs/background jobs/knowledge indexes/settings, asks the model to query local app data, or debugging requires checking persisted state. Trigger…
shellm
Reference for the shellm system — recursive LLM shell, identity management, memory, skills, trajectory, and all CLI tools. Use when working on shellm itself, debugging agent behavior, or understanding how the pieces fit together.