Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to reggiechan74/JobOps. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reggiechan74/JobOps/main/.claude/skills/kill-claude-mem/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reggiechan74/JobOpsWrote 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/reggiechan74/jobops/kill-claude-mem)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/reggiechan74/jobops/kill-claude-mem"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reggiechan74/jobops/kill-claude-mem/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/reggiechan74/jobops/kill-claude-mem"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reggiechan74/jobops/kill-claude-mem.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 | $0.00035 | $0.00453 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00227 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00091 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00045 |
Grade A, and why
kill-claude-mem scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Kill Stale claude-mem Processes
Purpose: claude-mem spawns worker-service and mcp-server processes per session that aren't always cleaned up when sessions end. Over multiple sessions, these accumulate and consume gigabytes of RAM. This command kills all instances; the plugin's hooks will re-spawn fresh ones on the next interaction.
Upstream bug: https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem/issues/1089
Portable Installation
This skill folder is self-contained. To add it to another repo:
- Copy the folder:
cp -r .claude/skills/kill-claude-mem /path/to/other/repo/.claude/skills/ - Run the installer:
cd /path/to/other/repo && bash .claude/skills/kill-claude-mem/install-hook.sh
The installer adds a SessionStart hook to that project's .claude/settings.json so stale processes are cleaned automatically on every session startup.
Files
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKILL.md |
This file — slash command definition |
kill-claude-mem.sh |
Cleanup script (used by hook and slash command) |
install-hook.sh |
One-time installer for the SessionStart hook |
Execution Instructions
When this skill is invoked, run the cleanup script:
bash "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/skills/kill-claude-mem/kill-claude-mem.sh"
Then verify the system state:
free -h | head -2
Report the results to the user in this format:
claude-mem cleanup
Killed: X workers, Y MCP servers
Memory freed: ~Z MB
RAM: X.XGi used / 15Gi total
Status: Fresh instances will spawn on next tool use
What ships with it
2 files 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.
- 10d ago First seen · 53 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 85301f88af8d
kill-claude-mem is a skill published in the GitHub repository reggiechan74/JobOps (25 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 453 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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