memtrace-first

A code-discovery and decision-checking skill for repositories indexed by Memtrace. It uses Memtrace’s code graph and Cortex tools before investigating or changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace code flows, investigate bugs, answer how-code-works questions, and check the reasoning before edits, refactors, deletions, or approach changes.
Why use it?
It helps avoid searching blindly or editing code without checking how it works and whether an earlier decision is recorded.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/syncable-dev/memtrace-public/memtrace-first
Any agent
npx skills add syncable-dev/memtrace-public --skill memtrace-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/syncable-dev/memtrace-public

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,260 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00115 $0.04260
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.02130
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00852
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00426

Measured yesterday against content hash 4905e3a64a40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memtrace-first 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 yesterday.

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/memtrace-skills/skills/memtrace-first/SKILL.md · 258 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 258 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 4905e3a64a40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memtrace-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository syncable-dev/memtrace-public (467 stars, last pushed 12d ago), with no licence file. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 4,260 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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