mode-creator

mode-creator is a skill for Claude Code from thedotmack/claude-mem. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,949 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An interactive setup guide for custom claude-mem memory modes, which define the kinds of notes and reusable labels the system records. It helps tailor memory to a particular type of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design and install domain-specific note categories and tags, optionally configure Telegram alerts, restart the memory worker, and check the startup context.
Why use it?
It helps when the default memory categories do not fit your workflow. It reviews existing modes, installs the chosen configuration safely, and verifies that the active mode is being used.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claude-mem plugin — 16 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to design and install domain-specific note categories and tags, optionally configure Telegram alerts, restart the memory worker, and check the startup context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thedotmack/claude-mem/mode-creator
About the project

Claude-Mem, now presented as Grok Mem, records an agent's work, compresses it with AI, and brings relevant notes into later sessions so the agent can remember decisions and next steps. It is intended for persistent context across agent conversations and supports multiple coding-agent environments. The catalogue add-ons provide the workflows and integrations used to operate this memory system.

thedotmack/claude-mem · 93,434 stars · on GitHub · claude-mem.ai

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.

Any agent
npx skills add thedotmack/claude-mem --skill mode-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-mem, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 MCP server.

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 mode-creator

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thedotmack/claude-mem/mode-creator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thedotmack/claude-mem/mode-creator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,949 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 1 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 1 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 133
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 134
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00094 $0.01949
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00195

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3379b4c6a5fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mode-creator 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/configure-telegram.mjs, scripts/install-mode.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugin/skills/mode-creator/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mode Creator

Create a useful note-taking system, not merely a valid JSON file. Interview the user, propose a small taxonomy, obtain approval, install it durably, configure optional alerts, restart the worker, and prove the active mode appears in startup context.

Ground rules

  • Use the available interactive question tool (AskUserQuestion, request_user_input, or equivalent) for the interview. Ask in small batches and wait for each response.
  • Explain observation types as mutually exclusive kinds of notes and concepts as reusable tags. Avoid jargon unless the user uses it first.
  • Inspect existing bundled and user modes before inventing a new one. Reuse or remix a close match when that serves the user better.
  • Do not edit a plugin cache or bundled mode. Install custom files under the resolved claude-mem data directory's modes/ folder.
  • Do not expose a Telegram token in chat, command arguments, logs, or tool output. Treat it like a password.
  • Preserve unrelated settings and existing Telegram triggers. The helpers make timestamped backups and merge requested triggers.
  • Custom modes are supported by the local worker runtime. If CLAUDE_MEM_RUNTIME is server, explain that this workflow cannot safely install a per-user mode into the shared server and stop before mutation.
  • Existing observations keep their original types. The new mode applies to future observation generation.

1. Open with the purpose

Begin with this message inside the first interactive question:

Custom modes let you take notes for whatever you're working on. If you're a law student, you may want to write down every time a case establishes a rule, a professor flags an exam trap, or doctrines conflict. If you're an architect, you may want to capture every design decision, code constraint, client preference, or site discovery. What are you working on?

Do not start by asking for a mode name or JSON fields. Learn the work first.

If the answer is code-related, say:

Code mode already works well for software work. A custom variant may work better if it also tracks [2–4 specific kinds of notes inferred from their work] and tags [2–4 useful cross-cutting themes]. Would you like to keep standard code mode or customize it?

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 163 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 3379b4c6a5fc

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mode-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository thedotmack/claude-mem (93,434 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,949 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.