para-memory-files

para-memory-files is a skill for Claude Code from Undertone0809/rudder. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,241 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A file-based memory system that stores information about projects, responsibilities, reference topics, and daily activity in organized folders. PARA is a method that groups information into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record durable facts, keep daily notes, organize knowledge, and maintain information about ongoing work and people.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a persistent place to save and retrieve useful facts between sessions instead of relying only on the current conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to record durable facts, keep daily notes, organize knowledge, and maintain information about ongoing work and people.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/undertone0809/rudder/para-memory-files
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 Undertone0809/rudder --skill para-memory-files
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Undertone0809/rudder

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,241 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00127 $0.02241
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01120
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00224

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7905abe53f55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

para-memory-files 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 8d 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.

server/resources/bundled-skills/para-memory-files/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PARA Memory Files

Persistent, file-based memory organized by Tiago Forte's PARA method. Three layers: a knowledge graph, daily notes, and tacit knowledge. All paths are relative to $AGENT_HOME.

Three Memory Layers

Layer 1: Knowledge Graph ($AGENT_HOME/life/ -- PARA)

Entity-based storage. Each entity gets a folder with two tiers:

  1. summary.md -- quick context, load first.
  2. items.yaml -- atomic facts, load on demand.
$AGENT_HOME/life/
  projects/          # Active work with clear goals/deadlines
    <name>/
      summary.md
      items.yaml
  areas/             # Ongoing responsibilities, no end date
    people/<name>/
    companies/<name>/
  resources/         # Reference material, topics of interest
    <topic>/
  archives/          # Inactive items from the other three
  index.md

PARA rules:

  • Projects -- active work with a goal or deadline. Move to archives when complete.
  • Areas -- ongoing (people, companies, responsibilities). No end date.
  • Resources -- reference material, topics of interest.
  • Archives -- inactive items from any category.

Fact rules:

  • Save durable facts immediately to items.yaml.
  • Weekly: rewrite summary.md from active facts.
  • Never delete facts. Supersede instead (status: superseded, add superseded_by).
  • When an entity goes inactive, move its folder to $AGENT_HOME/life/archives/.

When to create an entity:

  • Mentioned 3+ times, OR
  • Direct relationship to the user (family, coworker, partner, client), OR
  • Significant project or company in the user's life.
  • Otherwise, note it in daily notes.

For the atomic fact YAML schema and memory decay rules, see references/schemas.md.

Layer 2: Daily Notes ($AGENT_HOME/memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md)

Raw timeline of events -- the "when" layer.

  • Write continuously during conversations and agent work when a memory-worthy signal appears.
  • Extract durable facts to Layer 1 during heartbeats.
  • Treat daily notes as the first capture layer, not the final destination for stable preferences, entity facts, or shared project knowledge.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 219 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 7905abe53f55

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para-memory-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository Undertone0809/rudder (288 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,241 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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