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how-it-works is an agent skill by thedotmack: Explain how claude-mem captures observations, when memory injection kicks in, and where data lives. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match how-it-works and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. memory-poisoning-detection leads the list (published by the vendor). 5 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with how-it-works.
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how-it-works
Explain how claude-mem captures observations, when memory injection kicks in, and where data lives.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches how-it-works (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1memory-poisoning-detection
TencentOfficial
Detect persistent instruction injection or long-term memory poisoning.
- Published by the vendor
★ 7.1KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2caveman-compress
JuliusBrussee
Compress a memory file such as CLAUDE.md or a todo list into caveman format to save input tokens, keeping a readable backup.
- Supports Python
★ 114.8KLast active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3mem-search
thedotmack
Use this when the user asks to search memory, "did we already solve this?", "how did we do X last time?", or wants work from previous sessions.
- Repository has 102.8K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 102.8KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4remember
langchain-aiOfficial
Review the current conversation and capture valuable knowledge — best practices, coding conventions, architecture decisions, workflows, and user feedback —…
- Published by the vendor
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5coding-prefs
langchain-aiOfficial
Read the user's coding preferences from /memory/coding-prefs.md before making non-trivial style decisions, and append new preferences when the user gives…
- Published by the vendor
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6apache-arrow
terminal-skills
Expert guidance for Apache Arrow, the cross-language columnar memory format for analytics workloads.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 195Last active Sep 28, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7binary-mobile-reversing
AIPentest
APK/EXE/二进制:UniApp/DCloud/Flutter逆向,证书固定绕过,导出组件,内存破坏exploit链,IoT固件。Use when reversing APK/EXE, UniApp/Flutter, native .so, or memory-corruption exploits.
- Repository has 8K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 8KLast active Oct 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8memory-rag-poisoning-detection
TencentOfficial
Detect persistent-memory poisoning and RAG/knowledge-base contamination via dialogue testing.
- Published by the vendor
★ 7.1KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9wiz-security-context
henperezOfficial
Automatically load this skill when investigating an operational anomaly on a cloud resource - CPU or memory spikes, latency, elevated error rates, unexpected…
- Published by the vendor
★ 116Last active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10cpu-reduction
nubjs
Diagnose and clear CPU, memory, and disk contention on the maintainer's dev host.
- Supports Python
★ 4.4KLast active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11engram-memory
Gentleman-Programming
ALWAYS ACTIVE — Persistent memory protocol.
- Repository has 7.6K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 7.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12neat-freak
KKKKhazix
Knowledge and governance closeout: reconcile project docs, rule files (CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md), authorized agent memory, and workspace residue with what the code…
- Supports TypeScript and JavaScript
★ 21.6KLast active Jul 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet
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