memory

memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from plasma-ai/fractal. It costs 16 tokens per session (637 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for maintaining an agent's persistent memory: notes that remain available across tasks. It explains how to organize memory by topic and keep it useful.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record environment details, decisions, current state, and todo items in a durable knowledge store.
Why use it?
It prevents important knowledge from becoming a dated, mixed history of past work. It also separates private memory from shared project documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the fractal plugin — 4 skills, 4 agents shipped together

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/plasma-ai/fractal/memory
Any agent
npx skills add plasma-ai/fractal --skill memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plasma-ai/fractal

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install fractal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 agents.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 637 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 $0.00016 $0.00637
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00064

Measured 3d ago against content hash 897c408576b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory 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 3d 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.

fractal/_node/skills/memory/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory

Memory ($MEMORY_DIR) is the node's durable brain. Read it when you orient and fold findings back before each iteration ends. Sync may also write to memory when crucial information arrives via radio. See the wiki skill for how memory relates to the shared project wiki; this doc is the discipline for keeping memory useful.

Run wiki --help and wiki <command> --help for the CLI.

Conventions

  • Write knowledge, not history. Never reference iteration numbers, timestamps, or chronological markers -- a reader shouldn't be able to tell how many iterations have run. Before COMMIT, scan memory and any page you promote for iteration numbers and run labels and rewrite them out -- promotion carries your habits onto shared surfaces.
  • Organize by topic, not time. Update the existing page for a topic; don't append a new entry.
  • Start with a topical layout. Your FIRST memory write creates the layout -- one page per topic (environment, decisions, state, todo -- rename to fit the work; stubs are fine), never a single grab-bag page; when a page starts covering two topics, split it. A leaf expecting to finish within an iteration or two may keep just the state page.
  • One current-state page. Keep exactly one present-tense state page for where-am-I / what's-next, overwritten in place -- no "prior run" sections; per-iteration narrative belongs in the plan post-mortem, never memory.
  • Pages need desc: frontmatter. A page without it (a near-miss key like description: counts as without) is invisible to wiki map; after adding or moving pages, run wiki update --path=$MEMORY_DIR so they gain frontmatter and index entries.
  • Fold at phase ends. When a phase or a child's run ends, collapse its pages into durable facts and delete the rest -- memory carries what is still true, not what happened.
  • No append-only logs. If you're adding dated entries, stop -- replace outdated content with current understanding.
  • Todo lists are living state. Keep your private working checklist here as current open items, pruned as they complete -- never a done-log. A todo list other nodes should see and track belongs in the project wiki instead.
  • Keep indexes lean. Keep each _index.md under ~100 lines below the ***; factor overflow into child pages.
  • Wikilinks stay within one wiki. Reference anything outside this wiki -- the project wiki, source files, configs -- in plain text or backticks, never as a wikilink. wiki lint flags out-of-wiki wikilinks as stale.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 3d ago First seen · 50 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 897c408576b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository plasma-ai/fractal (704 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 637 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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