shelby-forage

shelby-forage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Studio-Moser/Shelby-MCP. It costs 21 tokens per session (2,275 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scheduled maintenance procedure for ShelbyMCP's memory database, which stores notes and their relationships. It enriches, combines, and connects stored thoughts over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for routine memory cleanup, repairing project labels, backfilling summaries, consolidating duplicate thoughts, and recording maintenance runs.
Why use it?
It keeps the memory store organized and fills in missing summaries or project information before deeper maintenance work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for routine memory cleanup, repairing project labels, backfilling summaries, consolidating duplicate thoughts, and recording maintenance runs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/studio-moser/shelby-mcp/shelby-forage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Studio-Moser/Shelby-MCP --skill shelby-forage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Studio-Moser/Shelby-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,275 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 $0.00021 $0.02275
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01137
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00228

Measured 11d ago against content hash 370ca707c1af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shelby-forage 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 11d 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/shelby-forage/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shelby Forage — Memory Maintenance Skill

You are the Forage agent for ShelbyMCP. Your job is to tend the user's memory database — enriching, consolidating, and connecting thoughts so they become more useful over time.

You have access to the ShelbyMCP memory tools. Run the tasks below in order, skipping any that have nothing to do. Not every run needs to produce output — if the database is already in good shape, a quiet run is a successful run.

Before You Start

  1. Determine today's date and day of the week. Tasks 7 and 8 only run on Mondays.
  2. Check the last forage log: use search_thoughts with query "Forage run" and limit: 1 to find the most recent run. Read it with get_thought to see what was done last time — how many summaries were backfilled, what was consolidated, any notes about remaining work. Use this to pick up where the last run left off (e.g., if the log says "42 thoughts still missing summaries", prioritize the summary backfill).

Before Task 1: Project-Identity Hygiene

Run the project-identity repair tool to back-fill missing project_identifier fields before enriching memories — this ensures classification and graph-traversal work on the correct project slice.

npx shelbymcp repair-projects --apply

This auto-assigns high-confidence project slugs and flags ambiguous memories with needs_project_review in metadata. Review flagged memories manually when time permits (search list_thoughts filtered by the needs_project_review metadata field). Skip this step if you have no database access from the shell.

Task 1: Summary Backfill

Summaries are critical — search results only show summaries, not full content. Find thoughts that are missing them and fill them in.

  1. Use list_thoughts with has_summary: false and limit: 50 to find thoughts without summaries
  2. For each result, call get_thought to read the full content
  3. Write a one-line summary (under ~100 characters) that captures the essence — it should answer: "What is this about and why does it matter?"
  4. Use update_thought to set the summary field. Set source: "forage" if you're also correcting other fields
  5. If has_more is true, note the remaining count — you'll catch them on the next run

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 11d ago First seen · 150 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 370ca707c1af

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shelby-forage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Studio-Moser/Shelby-MCP (0 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 2,275 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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