knowledge-prime

knowledge-prime is a skill for Claude Code from voxpelli/vp-claude. It costs 128 tokens per session (2,374 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that loads useful project knowledge from Basic Memory, a system for storing notes about dependencies, tools, patterns, and project decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need a project context brief, dependency coverage report, documented package list, or a deeper review of stored project notes.
Why use it?
It quickly shows what the project already documents and highlights missing knowledge before development work begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the vp-knowledge plugin — 14 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need a project context brief, dependency coverage report, documented package list, or a deeper review of stored project notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/voxpelli/vp-claude/knowledge-prime
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 voxpelli/vp-claude --skill knowledge-prime
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/voxpelli/vp-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vp-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,374 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 $0.00128 $0.02374
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01187
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00237

Measured 8d ago against content hash 463e68693984, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-prime 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/knowledge-prime/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Primer

Surface project-relevant Basic Memory knowledge as a concise context brief. Identifies which dependencies and tools are documented, loads key gotchas and patterns, and highlights gaps worth filling.

Flags

  • --deep — expand observation loading from 800 to 2000 tokens and include [pattern], [feature], [usage] categories alongside the default critical categories. Also expands graph traversal from top 6 to top 12 notes.

Edge Cases

  • No manifest files found — report "No package or tool manifest files detected in the current directory" and skip steps 2–5. Suggest running in a project root.
  • Empty BM directories — treat as 0 documented. Don't error.
  • Very large dependency lists (100+) — cap at top 50 by frequency/ alphabetical for the cross-reference. Note total count in the brief.
  • --deep on a small graph (<10 notes) — treat as compact mode. Report "Graph has fewer than 10 notes — showing all relevant notes."

Workflow

1. Identify project stack

Detect manifest files in the current working directory:

Manifest file Ecosystem BM directory Prefix
package.json npm npm/ npm:
Cargo.toml Rust crates/ crate:
go.mod Go go/ go:
composer.json PHP composer/ composer:
pyproject.toml or requirements.txt Python pypi/ pypi:
Gemfile Ruby gems/ gem:
Brewfile Homebrew brew/, casks/ brew:, cask:
.github/workflows/*.yml Actions actions/ action:
Dockerfile Docker docker/ docker:
.vscode/extensions.json VSCode vscode/ vscode:

Use Read to check for root-level manifest files — do not use Glob, which recurses into node_modules/ and similar directories. Use Glob only for wildcard paths like .github/workflows/*.yml. For detected package manifests, use Read to extract dependency names:

  • package.jsondependencies + devDependencies keys
  • Cargo.toml[dependencies] + [dev-dependencies] tables
  • go.modrequire block
  • composer.jsonrequire + require-dev keys
  • pyproject.toml[project.dependencies] or dependencies key
  • requirements.txt → package names (before ==/>=/etc.)
  • Gemfilegem '...' lines

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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. 8d ago First seen · 225 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 463e68693984

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knowledge-prime is a skill published in the GitHub repository voxpelli/vp-claude (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 2,374 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 2026-08-31.

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