memory

memory is a skill for Claude Code from v0idOS/performance-deity. It costs 33 tokens per session (370 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for finding and fixing memory leaks, where a program keeps holding memory that it no longer needs. It repeatedly runs the suspected code, measures memory use, identifies the retained reference, and checks the result after the fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate detached interface elements, growing global arrays or caches, and closures that retain large objects in Node.js, Python, or PowerShell programs.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses about memory problems with measurements across many iterations. It helps show whether memory really keeps growing and whether the change stopped that growth.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the performance-deity plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate detached interface elements, growing global arrays or caches, and closures that retain large objects in Node.js, Python, or PowerShell programs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/v0idos/performance-deity/memory
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 v0idOS/performance-deity --skill memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/v0idOS/performance-deity

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 370 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 $0.00033 $0.00370
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00037

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bf53f4752961, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory 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 1mo 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/memory/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Execute all four phases in order.

Phase 1 — Isolation

  1. Identify the code suspected of leaking.
  2. Write a wrapper that runs it in an infinite loop or for ≥1,000,000 iterations.

Phase 2 — Instrumentation

Inject memory tracking into the wrapper:

  • Node.js: process.memoryUsage().heapUsed before and after each iteration.
  • Python: tracemalloc.start() / tracemalloc.get_traced_memory().
  • PowerShell: [System.GC]::GetTotalMemory($false).

If memory continuously grows without recovering after GC, the leak is confirmed. Show the growth numerically:

Iteration      0:  10 MB
Iteration 100k:  14 MB
Iteration 500k:  40 MB

Phase 3 — Fix

Identify the uncollected reference:

  • Event listeners not removed from detached DOM nodes
  • Global arrays or caches growing without a size limit
  • Closures retaining large outer-scope objects

Apply the fix:

  • removeEventListener for DOM event listeners
  • WeakMap / WeakRef for object-keyed associations that should not prevent GC
  • Object pooling to reuse memory instead of allocating new objects per cycle

Phase 4 — Report

Re-run the instrumented wrapper and present:

Metric Before After
Memory growth per 10k ops +50MB +0MB
GC pause frequency High Stable

Explain the root cause and the specific reference that was being retained.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A bf53f4752961

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memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository v0idOS/performance-deity (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 370 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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