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How It Works skill

how-it-worksthedotmack/claude-memplugin/skills/how-it-works/SKILL.md

Explain how claude-mem captures observations, when memory injection kicks in, and where data lives. Use when the user asks "how does claude-mem work?" or "what is this thing doing?".

102kApache-2.0

always on

47 tokname + description

once used

237 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

11 KB

repo stars

102kGitHub

Install the How It Works skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem --skill how-it-works

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git /tmp/claude-mem
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/claude-mem/plugin/skills/how-it-works ~/.claude/skills/how-it-works

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description47 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions237 tok
Only if opened1 bundled files (1 KB)varies

Until it is used, how-it-works costs about 29× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 40 skills from thedotmack/claude-mem would load 2,081 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • How claude-mem works
  • What it does
  • When it kicks in
  • Where data lives

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    Use this when setting up claude-mem on Grok Bot: local worker plus CMEM Pro observer (default), optional host-login observer, or remote cmem.ai. No Cursor required.

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    Set up or check claude-mem cloud sync with cmem.ai Pro. Use when the user says "set up cloud sync", "sync my memories", "cmem pro", "cloud backup", "sync status", or wants their memory database backed up or synced to their cmem.ai account.

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