automem

automem is a skill for Claude Code from verygoodplugins/mcp-automem. It costs 16 tokens per session (471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for storing, finding, updating, deleting, and linking persistent notes through the AutoMem memory service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for commands such as remembering a decision, recalling project context, updating outdated notes, removing memories, or checking memory health.
Why use it?
It lets coding work retain project decisions, preferences, and debugging knowledge across conversations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it for commands such as remembering a decision, recalling project context, updating outdated notes, removing memories, or checking memory health.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/verygoodplugins/mcp-automem/skill-mcp"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/verygoodplugins/mcp-automem/skill-mcp.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 471 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00016 $0.00471
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured 8d ago against content hash da1b69edbf6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automem scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Do not fall back to raw curl commands in this mode unless the user explicitly asks for the legacy setup.
templates/openclaw/skill-mcp/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

AutoMem

Use the typed AutoMem tools exposed through mcporter.

Natural language mappings

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

Slash command behavior

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

Rules

  • Recall preferences first with tags: ["preference"], sort: "updated_desc", and format: "detailed" when collaboration style or user habits matter.
  • For task context, prefer one semantic query built from the user's actual nouns. Do not hard-gate recall with default tags unless the conversation is clearly scoped to an unambiguous project slug.
  • For debugging, recall with the error symptom as a semantic query and NO tags — bugfix/solution tagging is incomplete, and a tag gate hides cross-corpus fixes.
  • Tags are a hard gate. Use bare tags only, and avoid platform tags like openclaw.
  • Store only durable information worth reusing later.
  • Default project tags are for stored memories. Recall should stay semantic unless tags are explicitly needed.
  • Use memory-core and file-backed workspace memory for local notes and raw transcripts; AutoMem is the semantic cross-session layer.
  • If delete targets are ambiguous, show the likely matches and ask for confirmation before deleting.
  • Do not fall back to raw curl commands in this mode unless the user explicitly asks for the legacy setup.
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 · 38 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A da1b69edbf6c

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 16 tokens to every session and 471 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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