memory-management

memory-management is a skill for Claude Code from xiaolai/echo-sleuth-for-claude. It costs 48 tokens per session (990 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

A set of rules for managing Claude Code memory files: structured notes that preserve useful project, user, or reference information between sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit, extract, prune, or write memory files and maintain the index that links to them.
Why use it?
It provides consistent formats and helps decide which notes are relevant, outdated, or safe to remove.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the echo-sleuth plugin — 4 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit, extract, prune, or write memory files and maintain the index that links to them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaolai/echo-sleuth-for-claude/memory-management
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 xiaolai/echo-sleuth-for-claude --skill memory-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/echo-sleuth-for-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install echo-sleuth, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents.

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 memory-management

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xiaolai/echo-sleuth-for-claude/memory-management"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xiaolai/echo-sleuth-for-claude/memory-management.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 990 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.
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 $0.00048 $0.00990
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00099

Measured 8d ago against content hash 03041d9b7c6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-management 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.

| URL | Starts with `http://` or `https://` | curl HEAD request |
skills/memory-management/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Management

Memory File Format

Frontmatter schema (simple key: value, NOT general YAML):

---
name: <string, required>           # short identifier
description: <string, required>    # one-line summary for relevance matching
type: <enum, required>             # value | user | feedback | project | reference
---
  • All values are plain strings, no quoting needed unless value contains :
  • No nested structures, no lists, no multi-line values
  • Body follows after the closing --- delimiter as markdown

MEMORY.md Index Format

  • Plain markdown file, no frontmatter
  • Contains links to individual memory files with brief descriptions
  • Lines after 200 are truncated by Claude Code's loader — keep concise
  • Entry format: - [filename.md](filename.md) — brief description
  • When writing: create individual .md file first, then append entry

Staleness Scoring

Exponential decay: score = 100 * (1 - exp(-age_days * ln(2) / half_life))

Type Half-life Score 50 at Score 90 at
value 365 days 365d ~1213d
user 180 days 180d ~598d
feedback 90 days 90d ~299d
reference 60 days 60d ~199d
project 14 days 14d ~47d
unknown 30 days 30d ~100d

Score-to-action: 0-50 = keep, 50-75 = review, 75-100 = prune.

Deep verification modifiers (additive, capped at 100):

  • +20 if referenced file is missing
  • +30 if referenced function/class not found
  • +10 if URL returns non-200
  • +15 if referenced branch doesn't exist

Claim Extraction Heuristics (Deep Audit)

Claim Type Detection Pattern Verification
File path Contains /, ends with file extension Glob for existence
Function/class Backtick identifier in camelCase/PascalCase/snake_case Grep in project
URL Starts with http:// or https:// curl HEAD request
Branch After "branch" keyword or git pattern in backticks git branch -a
Package In dependency/package context Grep in manifest files

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 03041d9b7c6e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memory-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/echo-sleuth-for-claude (9 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 990 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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