palinode-claude-code

palinode-claude-code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from phasespace-labs/palinode. It costs 147 tokens per session (878 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Claude Code integration for Palinode, a persistent memory system that stores searchable, version-controlled notes about projects, decisions, people, and insights. The notes can be used across coding sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search project history, save architectural decisions or insights, check memory status, review recent memory changes, and register reminders that surface relevant context.
Why use it?
It prevents useful project context and past decisions from being lost when a session ends. Agents can search earlier knowledge and record new decisions as work progresses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/phasespace-labs/palinode/palinode-claude-code
Any agent
npx skills add phasespace-labs/palinode --skill palinode-claude-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phasespace-labs/palinode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 878 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 $0.00147 $0.00878
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00088

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4a634c413e21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

palinode-claude-code 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 4d 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.

skill/palinode-claude-code/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Palinode — Claude Code Integration

Palinode gives Claude Code persistent, git-versioned memory via 13 MCP tools. Memories survive across sessions, are searchable by meaning, and consolidate weekly.

Session Workflow

Before Starting Work

Use palinode_search to find any prior context on [project/topic]

Surfaces relevant decisions, people context, and insights automatically.

During Work — Save Key Decisions

When you make an architectural or product decision:

palinode_save: decided to [X] because [Y]. trade-off was [Z].
type: Decision
entities: [project/name]

After a Long Session

Save key decisions and insights from this session to palinode

Core Tools Quick Reference

Tool Call Pattern
Search palinode_search(query="...", limit=5)
Save decision palinode_save(content="...", type="Decision", entities=["project/name"])
Save insight palinode_save(content="...", type="Insight")
Save person palinode_save(content="...", type="PersonMemory", entities=["person/name"])
Status palinode_status()
Recent changes palinode_diff(file="projects/name.md", n_commits=3)
Register trigger palinode_trigger(action="add", description="...", memory_file="path/to/file.md")
Consolidate palinode_consolidate(dry_run=True)

Memory Types

  • Decision — what was decided and why (rationale is critical)
  • Insight — generalizable lessons (applies beyond one project)
  • PersonMemory — person's role, preferences, constraints
  • ProjectSnapshot — current state (milestones, blockers, next steps)
  • ActionItem — follow-up with owner and deadline

When to Save vs. Not

Save:

  • Architectural decisions with rationale
  • Bugs that took >30min to find (so future-you recognizes them)
  • Performance findings (e.g., "bge-m3 cold start is 30s, warm is 100ms")
  • People context (preferences, constraints, relationships)
  • Lessons that apply broadly across projects

Don't save:

  • Raw code (git handles it)
  • Step-by-step log of what you did (save the outcome, not the journey)
  • Temporary debug notes

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 96 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 4a634c413e21

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palinode-claude-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository phasespace-labs/palinode (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 878 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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