A workspace filing action that marks a file as archived in Memex, a system for organizing notes and project context. The file remains on disk but is no longer loaded automatically.

Use it to move a file from the active Tier 2 list to the archived Tier 3 list and update Memex’s tracking records.

It keeps old, wrapped, or replaced material from cluttering the context loaded for new work.

archive — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Skyfox-io: A workspace filing action that marks a file as…

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/skyfox-io/memex/archive

Any agent

npx skills add Skyfox-io/Memex --skill archive

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Skyfox-io/Memex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install memex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skyfox-io/memex/archive.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/skyfox-io/memex/archive)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skyfox-io/memex/archive"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skyfox-io/memex/archive.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 718 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00057	$0.00718
Opus 5	$0.00028	$0.00359
Sonnet 5	$0.00011	$0.00144
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00072

Measured 4d ago against content hash 19aac9dd608f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archive 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.

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.

memex/skills/archive/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memex - Archive

Wikilink rule: Use [[filename]] for every file reference in markdown.

Move a file from Tier 2 to Tier 3 in _MANIFEST.md and update its hub status. The file stays on disk; archiving just stops auto-loading.

Step 1: Find workspace root

Run WORKSPACE_ROOT=$(pwd) && echo "$WORKSPACE_ROOT" via Bash.

Read _MANIFEST.md. If missing: tell the user "No manifest found. Run /memex:init first." and stop.

Step 2: Identify the file

If $ARGUMENTS is set, use it. Otherwise read the Tier 2 sections from _MANIFEST.md, show the entries, and ask which to archive.

Step 3: Move in manifest

Remove the file's row from its Tier 2 domain section.
Add to the Tier 3 table with today's date and a brief reason:

| [[filename]] | [why archived] | YYYY-MM-DD |

Step 4: Update the hub and closets

Read the relevant domain hub. Set the file's status to Archived, or remove it from the active table.

Then update the file's entry in <domain>/_CLOSETS.md (or _CLOSETS-archive.md if it lives there per pagination). Change the entry's status: line to status: archived. If the file has no closets entry yet, skip. Session-end will not re-create it for an archived file.

Closets schema and field semantics: memex/skills/session-end/references/closets-format.md.

Step 5: Confirm

Archived: [filename]
  From:   Tier 2 ([domain name])
  Reason: [why]
  Date:   YYYY-MM-DD

To unarchive: move the row back to Tier 2 in _MANIFEST.md.

Gotchas

Archive is a manifest move, not a file deletion. The file stays on disk. Don't rm it. Don't move it to an archive/ folder unless the user explicitly asks. That breaks existing wikilinks.
Tier 3 entries still need wikilinks. Use [[filename]] in the Tier 3 row so the Obsidian graph keeps the node connected.
Don't strip the closets entry. The file's _CLOSETS.md entry stays, with status: archived. Future searches still surface it, just at lower priority.
Tier 1 files don't archive. status.md, decisions.md, glossary.md, etc. are always-loaded by design. Refuse and explain.
Reason is load-bearing. Examples: "wrapped", "superseded by [[new-file]]", "stale". Future you reads this when deciding whether to unarchive. "no longer needed" is not a reason.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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.

4d ago First seen · 64 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 19aac9dd608f

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archive is a skill published in the GitHub repository Skyfox-io/Memex (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 718 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 2026-08-30.

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