session-context

A project-memory system that stores goals, decisions, progress, and warnings in a local SQLite database. Hooks automatically restore relevant project context when a new session starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to restore project state, review saved context, and keep track of objectives, architectural choices, progress notes, and gotchas across coding sessions.
Why use it?
It helps an agent continue work with earlier context instead of losing important decisions, unfinished work, and known pitfalls between sessions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the openltm plugin — 10 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 3 hooks 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/rohirik/openltm/session-context
Any agent
npx skills add RohiRIK/OpenLtm --skill session-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RohiRIK/OpenLtm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install openltm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 3 hooks.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 989 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 $0.00037 $0.00989
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00099

Measured 3d ago against content hash f0fd3d6f9f6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-context 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.

skills/session-context/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Context Persistence

Overview

Per-project context lives in $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA/openltm.db (SQLite). Hooks manage it automatically. Project names come from ~/.claude/projects/registry.json — run /openltm:project register to see yours.

Claude does NOT manually write context files. Hooks handle all reads and writes.

The 4 Context Types

Type Purpose Managed by
goal Current objective (1-3 lines) /openltm:project init to seed; auto-replaced on change
decision Architectural / key choices Permanent — never trimmed
progress Session log — what was done UpdateContext hook at session end; trimmed to last 20
gotcha Warnings, pitfalls, blockers Permanent — never trimmed

What Happens at Session Start

The SessionStart hook:

  1. Resolves project from registry.json
  2. Regenerates context-summary.md from DB
  3. Injects up to 60 lines of context into your session
  4. If DB has LTM memories: also injects importance-5 globals + top-15 project memories

You'll see ## Restored Project Context at session start when this fires. Acknowledge it briefly and confirm you're ready to continue.

LTM Commands (store and search learned insights)

Command When to use
/openltm:memory learn After discovering a non-obvious pattern, gotcha, or decision
/openltm:memory recall [query] Before starting work on a topic — surface past decisions
/openltm:memory forget <id> When a memory is wrong or stale
/openltm:memory relate <src> <tgt> <type> Link two related memories

Recall before a non-trivial problem to check for prior knowledge; skip it for trivial one-liners.

What PreCompact Does

When compaction fires, PreCompact hook:

  1. Reads DB for all 4 context types for this project
  2. Writes context-summary.md (max ~60 lines) as a human-readable fallback
  3. This file is injected at the next SessionStart

You do not manage context-summary.md — the hook overwrites it each compaction.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 · 89 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A f0fd3d6f9f6d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

session-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository RohiRIK/OpenLtm (26 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 989 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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