memory-system

A persistent memory system that stores user preferences, project conventions, and past technical decisions in organized files across coding sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to maintain a short index and topic files for preferences, project rules, architecture decisions, and feedback history.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to rediscover or re-explain information every time a new session starts.

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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/vudovn/ag-kit/memory-system
Any agent
npx skills add vudovn/ag-kit --skill memory-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vudovn/ag-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,468 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 $0.00035 $0.01468
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00734
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00147

Measured 2d ago against content hash 40ffe215156b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-system 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.

.agents/skills/memory-system/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory System — Persistent Cross-Session Memory

Enables agents to remember across sessions. Never re-discover what was already learned.

Overview

The Memory System provides persistent, searchable memory that survives across sessions. Instead of re-explaining preferences, conventions, and past decisions every time, agents read a structured MEMORY.md index and topic files.

Token Impact: +1,000 tokens to load index, but saves 3,000-10,000 tokens by eliminating re-discovery.


Architecture

.agents/memory/
├── MEMORY.md              ← Lightweight index (max 200 lines)
├── user-preferences.md    ← Topic file: user role, style, tools
├── project-conventions.md ← Topic file: coding standards, patterns
├── tech-decisions.md      ← Topic file: past architectural decisions
├── feedback-history.md    ← Topic file: what user liked/disliked
└── [topic-name].md        ← Additional topic files as needed

MEMORY.md Index Format

The index is a lightweight pointer file — short entries that reference topic files for details.

Rules:

  • Maximum 200 lines total
  • Each entry: ~150 characters max
  • Format: - [type] summary → topic-file.md
  • Types: [user] [feedback] [project] [reference]

Example:

# Memory Index

## User
- [user] Prefers dark mode, uses Windows 11, PowerShell → user-preferences.md
- [user] Senior DevOps engineer, 8 years experience → user-preferences.md
- [user] Primary language: English, sometimes Turkish → user-preferences.md

## Project
- [project] Always use bun instead of npm → project-conventions.md
- [project] Tailwind v4 preferred, no v3 → tech-decisions.md
- [project] No purple/violet colors in UI → project-conventions.md

## Feedback
- [feedback] User likes concise responses, no filler → feedback-history.md
- [feedback] User dislikes verbose explanations → feedback-history.md
- [feedback] User prefers tables over bullet lists → feedback-history.md

## Reference
- [reference] Squid proxy runs on port 3128 → infrastructure-notes.md
- [reference] Git workflow: feature branches → main → project-conventions.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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 · 183 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 40ffe215156b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memory-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository vudovn/ag-kit (8,162 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,468 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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