relevant-memory-selection-by-header

relevant-memory-selection-by-header is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ychampion/cskill-agents. It costs 27 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to choose relevant memory files by comparing their short headers and descriptions with the current request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent has a directory of memory files and needs to select a small relevant set before reading them.
Why use it?
It limits loaded context to useful files, avoids repeating files already shown, and safely discards selections that do not exist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when an agent has a directory of memory files and needs to select a small relevant set before reading them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ychampion/cskill-agents/relevant-memory-selection-by-header
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ychampion/cskill-agents --skill relevant-memory-selection-by-header
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 427 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 $0.00027 $0.00427
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3bfa801069f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

relevant-memory-selection-by-header 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 7d 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/claude-code/skills/relevant-memory-selection-by-header/SKILL.md · 29 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 29 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Relevant Memory Selection By Header

Domain: memory-selection Trigger: Apply whenever you have a query and a directory of memory files; reuse this method to pick up to five headers whose descriptions best match the prompt. Source Pattern: Distilled from reviewed memory-header ranking and selective context-injection implementations.

Core Method

Scan the memory directory for file headers, build a compact manifest of filename and description pairs, and ask a constrained ranking model to choose the most relevant entries for the current query. Validate the returned filenames against the scanned manifest so hallucinated results are dropped safely. Return the selected paths plus enough metadata to load or rank them later, and record that the selector ran even if it picked nothing.

Key Rules

  • Always filter out filenames already surfaced in prior turns before asking the assistant; otherwise you waste the 5-slot budget on repeats.
  • Include recent-tool context so the selector avoids re-suggesting materials that are already active while still surfacing missing warnings or gotchas.
  • Guard the schema parsing step: the side query must return a JSON object with selected_memories (array of strings); drop any entries not matching the scanned filenames.
  • Even if the assistant returns nothing, record that the selector ran (e.g., via telemetry) so metrics distinguish “ran but picked none” from “never ran”.

Example Application

When answering a question about an old API and you have dozens of memory files, run the manifest-ranking loop to surface only the few headers whose descriptions signal genuine warnings or relevant history, then inject only those paths back into the main context.

Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)

  • Don’t rely on keyword matching alone; a manifest plus constrained ranking pass avoids many of the false positives that naive heuristics create.
  • Don’t include already-loaded headers again; it wastes the limited slot budget and makes the assistant revisit stale files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 29 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. 7d ago First seen · 29 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 3bfa801069f6

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relevant-memory-selection-by-header is a skill published in the GitHub repository ychampion/cskill-agents (36 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 427 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 2026-09-03.