remembering-conversations

remembering-conversations is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (929 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for searching earlier Claude Code conversations for facts, decisions, patterns, and useful context using meaning-based or exact-text searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find previous solutions, investigate similar bugs, or recall decisions when someone refers to an earlier conversation.
Why use it?
It helps recover information from past discussions instead of repeating research or losing earlier architectural decisions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to find previous solutions, investigate similar bugs, or recall decisions when someone refers to an earlier conversation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/remembering-conversations
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill remembering-conversations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 929 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 71
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00024 $0.00929
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00093

Measured 4d ago against content hash 724ca2cc018a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remembering-conversations 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 17 executable files (tool/migrate-to-config.sh, tool/src/db.test.ts, tool/src/db.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

remembering-conversations/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Remembering Conversations

Search archived conversations using semantic similarity or exact text matching.

Core principle: Search before reinventing.

Announce: "I'm searching previous conversations for [topic]."

Setup: See INDEXING.md

When to Use

Search when:

  • Your human partner mentions "we discussed this before"
  • Debugging similar issues
  • Looking for architectural decisions or patterns
  • Before implementing something familiar

Don't search when:

  • Info in current conversation
  • Question about current codebase (use Grep/Read)

In-Session Use

Always use subagents (50-100x context savings). See using-skills for workflow.

Manual/CLI use: Direct search (below) for humans outside Claude Code sessions.

Direct Search (Manual/CLI)

Tool: tool/search-conversations

Modes:

search-conversations "query"              # Vector similarity (default)
search-conversations --text "exact"       # Exact string match
search-conversations --both "query"       # Both modes

Flags:

--after YYYY-MM-DD    # Filter by date
--before YYYY-MM-DD   # Filter by date
--limit N             # Max results (default: 10)
--help                # Full usage

Examples:

# Semantic search
search-conversations "React Router authentication errors"

# Find git SHA
search-conversations --text "a1b2c3d4"

# Time range
search-conversations --after 2025-09-01 "refactoring"

Returns: project, date, conversation summary, matched exchange, similarity %, file path.

For details: Run search-conversations --help

Cross-Client Portability

This skill is written to stay usable across GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex.

  • GitHub Copilot: keep the folder in a Copilot-visible skill path or wrap the workflow in project instructions when folder discovery is unavailable.
  • Claude Code: keep the folder in a local skills directory or a compatible plugin source.
  • Codex: install or sync the folder into $CODEX_HOME/skills/remembering-conversations and restart Codex after major changes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 4d ago Changed 724ca2cc018a
  2. 6d ago Changed 5cb9b20095be
  3. 8d ago First seen · 118 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 76acc6cf9f12

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remembering-conversations is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 929 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 2026-09-03.

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