automem

automem is a skill for Claude Code from verygoodplugins/mcp-automem. It costs 18 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A persistent memory skill that uses AutoMem, a memory service, to store, recall, update, delete, check, and connect pieces of information. It maps natural-language memory requests to the corresponding tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save durable project information, retrieve earlier context, update or remove memories, associate related memories, and check memory health.
Why use it?
It helps an agent retain project decisions, preferences, debugging history, and other useful context between tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to save durable project information, retrieve earlier context, update or remove memories, associate related memories, and check memory health.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/verygoodplugins/mcp-automem/automem
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 verygoodplugins/mcp-automem --skill automem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/verygoodplugins/mcp-automem

Made for: Claude Code.

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 automem

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 333 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 19
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
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 $0.00018 $0.00333
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1316ebe6d34a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automem 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.

skills/automem/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

AutoMem

Use the native AutoMem tools exposed by the AutoMem plugin.

Natural language mappings

  • remember ... or store this -> call automem_store_memory
  • what do you know about ... or recall ... -> call automem_recall_memory
  • update memory ... -> call automem_update_memory
  • delete memory ... -> recall first when needed, then call automem_delete_memory
  • link these memories ... -> call automem_associate_memories
  • is memory healthy? -> call automem_check_health

Slash command behavior

Treat /automem remember ..., /automem recall ..., /automem update ..., and /automem delete ... as direct requests to use the matching AutoMem tool flow above.

Rules

  • Recall first for prior decisions, preferences, ongoing projects, and debugging history.
  • Store durable outcomes: decisions, bug fixes, patterns, preferences, and important context.
  • Keep content compact: Brief title. Context and details. Impact/outcome.
  • If deletion is ambiguous, recall candidates first and ask for confirmation with ids before deleting.
  • Use memory-core alongside AutoMem when file-backed workspace memory is helpful. It complements AutoMem; it is not a replacement.
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 · 34 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 1316ebe6d34a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

automem is a skill published in the GitHub repository verygoodplugins/mcp-automem (64 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 333 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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