curator

A maintenance skill for the nmem knowledge base, a stored collection of project notes and memories. It checks entries for contradictions, duplicates, expired information, and broken references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to lint and reconcile memories, verify references, deprecate outdated entries, and summarize gaps or changes in the knowledge base.
Why use it?
It prevents accumulated notes from becoming confusing or unreliable as the project, files, commands, and decisions change.

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/vaayne/agent-kit/curator
Any agent
npx skills add vaayne/agent-kit --skill curator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaayne/agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 634 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00077 $0.00634
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00317
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00063

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8aaa34ed4a14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

curator 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 2d 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/curator/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Curator

Harvest writes; curator keeps it trustworthy. An unmaintained knowledge base rots — contradictions accumulate, duplicates fragment retrieval, and references outlive the things they point to. Two passes, run together or alone.

Lint pass

Routine-tier work: mechanical checks, conservative fixes.

  1. Scope the window. Find the last curator-run memory (nmem memories search "curator run"); lint what changed since. First run: sweep everything (nmem memories list, nmem stats).
  2. Duplicates — search topic clusters the window touched; near-identical entries merge into the strongest one (update), losers get supersede links.
  3. Contradictions — where a newer memory disagrees with an older one, verify which is true now; deprecate the loser with the reason recorded, never silently.
  4. Dead references — memories naming files, flags, skills, or commands: verify each still exists (check the repo or filesystem). Update what moved; deprecate what vanished.
  5. Expired — entries whose stated expiry has passed: re-verify or deprecate. Time-sensitive claims with no expiry get one added now.
  6. Harvest gaps — list the window's threads (nmem threads list) and compare against memories added in the same span; a non-trivial session that saved nothing is a harvest miss. Read the thread, save what a future session would need, or confirm there was genuinely nothing to keep. Threads import is manual — a sparse window may mean unsynced, not idle; say so in the report instead of guessing.

Fix verbs, in order of preference: update (correct in place) → supersede (old links to replacement) → deprecate (obsolete, kept for audit) → delete (only for entries wrong from birth). History stays legible.

Synthesis pass

Premium-tier work: judgment across the whole window.

Read the window's memories plus the feed (nmem feed), then write a short report to the user: what entered, what themes are forming, what drifts from earlier decisions, what deserves attention next. This is the pass that surfaces cross-source connections no single entry shows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 2d ago First seen · 39 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 8aaa34ed4a14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

curator is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaayne/agent-kit (53 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 634 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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