neural-status

neural-status is a skill for Claude Code from Yakoub-ai/neural-memory. It costs 26 tokens per session (278 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A health check for the Neural Memory project index, which records project files and their relationships. It reports whether the index exists, how current it is, and basic graph statistics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking initialization, commits behind, changed files, node and edge counts, indexed files, and configuration, then suggesting indexing or updating when needed.
Why use it?
It shows whether the stored project context is missing or outdated before an agent relies on it.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the neural-memory plugin — 13 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Checking initialization, commits behind, changed files, node and edge counts, indexed files, and configuration, then suggesting indexing or updating when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yakoub-ai/neural-memory/neural-status
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 Yakoub-ai/neural-memory --skill neural-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yakoub-ai/neural-memory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install neural-memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 278 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 $0.00026 $0.00278
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00139
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00028

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1db51be9ffac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

neural-status 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 10d 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/neural-status/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Neural Memory — Status Check

Check the health and freshness of the neural memory index.

What this checks

  • Whether neural memory has been initialized
  • How many commits behind the index is
  • Which files have changed since last index
  • Total nodes, edges, and files in the graph
  • Current index mode and configuration

How to call

Via MCP tool (neural-memory configured as MCP server in Claude Code):

Tool: neural_status
{}

Via Python (working directly in the project):

import asyncio
from neural_memory.server import neural_status, StatusInput

asyncio.run(neural_status(StatusInput()))

StatusInput has no required fields. Pass project_root="." to be explicit.

Windows: run python -X utf8 (or set PYTHONUTF8=1) to avoid cp1252 encoding errors from Unicode output. Applies to all neural commands.

Agent behavior

The neural agent runs this check automatically and will suggest:

  • /neural-index if no index exists
  • /neural-update if the index is stale (default: 5+ commits behind)
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. 10d ago First seen · 41 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 1db51be9ffac

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neural-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository Yakoub-ai/neural-memory (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 278 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.