forgetful-remember

forgetful-remember is a skill for Claude Code from ScottRBK/forgetful. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A knowledge-saving workflow for Forgetful, a system that stores memories, documents, code, people, and other project information. It decides where information belongs, checks existing entries, and links related records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save a fact, decision, preference, guide, reusable code item, person, organisation, product, or software component for later use.
Why use it?
It prevents useful decisions, solutions, preferences, and project knowledge from being lost between work sessions or stored in the wrong place.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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/scottrbk/forgetful/forgetful-remember
Any agent
npx skills add ScottRBK/forgetful --skill forgetful-remember
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ScottRBK/forgetful

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for forgetful-remember

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/scottrbk/forgetful/forgetful-remember"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/scottrbk/forgetful/forgetful-remember.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,280 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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.01280
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00640
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00128

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1cffd996b178, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forgetful-remember 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 6d 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/forgetful-remember/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Remembering knowledge in Forgetful

Capture is a sequence, not a single call: route the content to the right store, ground it in a project, check what already exists, then create atomically and link. Removal and rewriting happen by supersession only — a memory does not become less true because it hasn't been queried lately.

Invoking operations

Operations are named by registry name (query_memory, create_memory, ...). Invoke via whichever surface this agent has:

  • MCP: execute_forgetful_tool(tool_name="create_memory", arguments={...})
  • CLI: forgetful call create_memory --args '{"title": "..."}' --json

Get any operation's schema at runtime: how_to_use_forgetful_tool (MCP) or forgetful tools info <operation> (CLI) — schemas are deliberately not repeated here.

Step 1 — Route the type

The content is... Store as Where
A single fact, decision, or preference Memory this skill, step 4
Detailed analysis or a guide (>300 words) Document + entry memories this skill, step 4
Reusable code Code artifact this skill, step 4
A person, org, device, product, component Entity forgetful-entities
Step-by-step procedural knowledge Skill forgetful-procedures
Binary content (image, PDF, asset) File forgetful-files
A goal decomposing into steps / a work item Plan / Task feature-flagged; check discovery

Done when: exactly one type is chosen, and routed-away types are handled by their skill.

Step 2 — Resolve the project

Every write needs a deliberate project decision. Derive the candidate from the repo: git remote get-url originowner/repolist_projects with repo_name. When no project matches, create one or ask the user; when several could apply, ask.

Done when: a real project_id is confirmed — discovered or user-chosen, never assumed.

Step 3 — Query before create

Search for overlapping knowledge using the candidate's own essence as the query (query_memory with query and query_context). Classify every relevant hit:

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 6d ago First seen · 123 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 1cffd996b178

Subscribe to this mod's changes

forgetful-remember is a skill published in the GitHub repository ScottRBK/forgetful (296 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,280 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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