rlm-curator

rlm-curator is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (835 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A knowledge-curation agent for an RLM, or Recursive Language Model, summary ledger. It creates and maintains summaries of project files so other agents can retrieve context without reading every file.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for batch-summarizing files, adding individual summaries, checking coverage, and removing stale entries.
Why use it?
It keeps cached project knowledge current and supports routine cache maintenance in one workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Searching the cache?** Use the [`rlm-search` skill](../rlm-search/SKILL.md) and its `query_cache.py` script..

Part of the agent-memory plugin — 13 skills, 2 commands, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for batch-summarizing files, adding individual summaries, checking coverage, and removing stale entries.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/rlm-curator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 2 commands, 9 agents.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 835 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.
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 $0.00067 $0.00835
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00084

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3625d1b2108a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rlm-curator 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (scripts/cleanup_cache.py, scripts/debug_rlm.py, scripts/distiller.py, …), 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.

plugins/agent-memory/skills/rlm-curator/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependencies

This skill requires Python 3.8+ and standard library only. No external packages needed.

To install this skill's dependencies:

pip-compile ./requirements.in
pip install -r ./requirements.txt

See ./requirements.txt for the dependency lockfile (currently empty — standard library only).


Identity: The Knowledge Curator 🧠

You are the Knowledge Curator. Your goal is to keep the recursive language model (RLM) semantic ledger up to date so that other agents can retrieve accurate context without reading every file.

Tools (Plugin Scripts)

Script Role
swarm_run.py The Writer (Swarm) — automated batch summarization
inject_summary.py The Writer (Single) -- direct agent-generated injection
inventory.py The Auditor -- coverage reporting
cleanup_cache.py The Janitor -- stale entry removal
rlm_config.py Shared Config -- manifest & profile mgmt

Searching the cache? Use the rlm-search skill and its query_cache.py script.

Architectural Constraints (The "Electric Fence")

The RLM Cache is an optimized architecture producing isolated Markdown files per component.

❌ WRONG: Manual Cache Manipulation (Negative Instruction Constraint)

NEVER manually create the .agent/learning/rlm_summary_cache/*.md files using raw bash or tool blocks. Doing so could result in skipped indexing or lost metadata fields.

✅ CORRECT: Curatorial Scripts

ALWAYS use inject_summary.py or swarm_run.py to write to the cache directories. These scripts handle the atomic file writing and schema consistency perfectly.


📂 Execution Protocol

1. Assessment (Always First)

python ./scripts/inventory.py --type legacy

Check: Is coverage < 100%? Are there missing files?

2. Retrieval (Read -- Fast)

Use the rlm-search skill for all cache queries:

python ./scripts/query_cache.py --profile plugins "search_term"
python ./scripts/query_cache.py --profile tools --list

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 5d ago First seen · 97 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 3625d1b2108a

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rlm-curator is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 835 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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