Hipocampus Core

Hipocampus Core is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by kevin-hs-sohn in hipocampus.

206 stars10 forkson kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampusAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/06/08

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Install Hipocampus Core

Copy Hipocampus Core into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus/tree/main/skills/core ~/.claude/skills/core

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/core/SKILL.md in kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/core
Collection: One of 8 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3101 skills

What Hipocampus Core does

Hipocampus Core defines a 3-tier memory system for Claude Code, including session start checks, end-of-task checkpoints, and memory file maintenance. Use it to keep long-running agent work organized and recoverable.

Hipocampus Core is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Hipocampus Core comes from a repository tagged agent-memory, ai-agent, ai-memory, claude-code and compaction-tree.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Hipocampus — Agent Memory Protocol (Claude Code)

Memory Architecture

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Hipocampus Core

What else does kevin-hs-sohn publish alongside Hipocampus Core?
Hipocampus Core is one of 8 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Hipocampus Compaction, Hipocampus Core and Hipocampus Core. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Hipocampus Core does, and is maintained by kevin-hs-sohn in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus page.
How does Hipocampus Core compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Hipocampus Core ranks #2781 by stars among the 3101 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Hipocampus Core against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.