memories-cli

A command-line reference and workflow for memories.sh, a persistent memory system for AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
It covers adding, searching, editing, listing, and deleting memories, recalling context, and generating configuration files for AI development tools.
Why use it?
It helps preserve project knowledge and make it available across coding sessions and supported AI tools.

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/webrenew/memories/memories-cli
Any agent
npx skills add webrenew/memories --skill memories-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/webrenew/memories

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,728 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 $0.00158 $0.01728
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00173

Measured 3d ago against content hash dbdac3f83955, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memories-cli 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 3d 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/memories-cli/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

memories-cli

CLI reference for @memories.sh/cli — manage memories, generate configs, and sync across tools.

The CLI is the primary way to interact with memories.sh. Use it to store memories, generate native config files, and manage your memory store. For environments where the CLI isn't available (v0, bolt.new, Lovable, or other browser-based agents), use the MCP server as a fallback.

Install & Init

npm install -g @memories.sh/cli   # or: npx @memories.sh/cli
memories init                      # Initialize in current project

memories init auto-detects AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code) and configures MCP + generates instruction files.

Command Quick Reference

Command Purpose
memories add <content> Store a memory
memories recall Context-aware memories for current project
memories search <query> Full-text search
memories list List memories with filters
memories edit <id> Edit content, type, or tags
memories forget <id> Soft-delete a memory
memories generate Generate AI tool config files
memories prompt Generate a system prompt
memories serve Start MCP server
memories session <subcommand> Manage explicit sessions (start, checkpoint, status, end, snapshot)
memories compact run Run inactivity compaction worker
memories consolidate run Merge duplicates and supersede stale truths
memories openclaw memory <subcommand> OpenClaw file-mode workflows (bootstrap, flush, snapshot, sync)
memories reminders Manage cron reminders (add, list, run, enable, disable, delete)

Core Workflows

1. New Project Setup

cd my-project
memories init              # Detect tools, configure MCP, generate files
memories add "Use pnpm" --type rule
memories add "Chose Supabase for auth" --type decision
memories generate          # Update all AI tool configs

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 178 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A dbdac3f83955

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memories-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository webrenew/memories (36 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 1,728 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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