mem-search SKILL.md skillA
mem-search from thedotmack/claude-mem is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add thedotmack/claude-mem/mem-search@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- thedotmack/claude-mem
- Path
cowork/skills/mem-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Aug 25, 2026
- Size
- 2,059 bytes
- Repository stars
- 102,153
- License
- Apache-2.0
This skill should be used when the user asks to "search memory", "what do you remember about X", "check claude-mem", "mem search", "find past observations", "what did we do last session", or wants prior-session context about a project, decision, file, or task. Searches the user's Claude-Mem (cmem.ai) memory.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Claude-Mem Search (Cowork)
Search the user's persistent Claude-Mem memory on cmem.ai. Memory contains
timestamped observations synthesized from past sessions across all their
agents (Claude Code, Cowork, Codex, and others).
## How to search
Run the bundled CLI (no dependencies, uses the plugin's configured API key):
```bash
node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/cmem-hook.mjs" search "your query" --limit 20
```
## Progressive search method
Follow claude-mem's Index → Timeline → Transcript discipline — cheap passes
first, expensive detail only for confirmed hits:
1. **Index pass** — run 1–3 broad keyword searches (project names, file names,
error strings, feature names). Skim titles/summaries only.
2. **Narrow pass** — re-search with the most specific terms found in step 1
(IDs, exact phrases) and a smaller `--limit`.
3. **Answer** — synthesize from the observations returned. Quote timestamps
when the user asks "when".
Do not dump raw search output at the user; extract the relevant observations
and answer in plain language.
## Diagnostics
If searches return nothing or error:
```bash
node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/cmem-hook.mjs" status
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add thedotmack/claude-mem/mem-search@sha256:53b43f2eb70de2d9The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 25, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2059 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
thedotmack/claude-mem · 102,153 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vnkqyhof4cyex3al GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thedotmack/claude-mem/mem-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/53b43f2eb70de2d9dc513da0375a330ca7f5b4c446f5e7dc259679d3b23bb077
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