Memory Harness

Memory Harness is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by jeremylongshore in claude-code-plugins-plus-skills.

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Install Memory Harness

Copy Memory Harness 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/jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills/tree/main/plugins/community/ejentum-memory ~/.claude/skills/ejentum-memory

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/jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/community/ejentum-memory/SKILL.md in jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ejentum-memory
Collection: One of 53 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Memory Harness does

Memory Harness sharpens an existing observation about conversation state, drift, or cross-turn patterns. Use it to verify whether a perceived signal is real or projection, not to extract facts or store structured data.

Memory Harness is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Memory Harness comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai, ai-agents, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Memory Harness

When this skill triggers, you MUST observe first. Do not call the tool with an empty mind. If you have not formed an observation about conversation state, drift, or pattern, do not invoke this skill.

Once you have a raw observation, call the memory tool from the ejentum MCP server. Pass a 1-2 sentence framing in the format "I noticed [observation]. This might mean [tentative interpretation]. Sharpen: [what I need help seeing deeper into]." as the query argument.

Good query: I noticed the user changed topic three times in this turn. This might mean they are avoiding the original question. Sharpen: whether the avoidance pattern is real or my projection. Bad query: what does the user mean

The tool returns a structured scaffold containing:

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

Frequently asked about Memory Harness

What else does jeremylongshore publish alongside Memory Harness?
Memory Harness is one of 53 skills that DirSkills catalogs from jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agency OS, Anti-Deception and Audit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Memory Harness does, and is maintained by jeremylongshore in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills page.
How does Memory Harness compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Memory Harness ranks #768 by stars among the 2451 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 Memory Harness against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.