Culture Retention
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Analyze reference retention paths that prevent GC of removed entries
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Install Audit Memory Retention
$ npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install ben-manes/caffeine audit-memory-retention --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention .claude/skills/audit-memory-retention && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "audit-memory-retention" agent skill from https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/tree/master/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention into .claude/skills/audit-memory-retention/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audit-memory-retention", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/tree/master/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retentionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install ben-manes/caffeine audit-memory-retention --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention .agents/skills/audit-memory-retention && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "audit-memory-retention" agent skill from https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/tree/master/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention into .agents/skills/audit-memory-retention/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audit-memory-retention", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install ben-manes/caffeine audit-memory-retention --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention .cursor/skills/audit-memory-retention && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "audit-memory-retention" agent skill from https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/tree/master/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention into .cursor/skills/audit-memory-retention/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audit-memory-retention", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine.git --path .claude/skills/audit-memory-retention--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install ben-manes/caffeine audit-memory-retention --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention .gemini/skills/audit-memory-retention && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "audit-memory-retention" agent skill from https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/tree/master/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention into .gemini/skills/audit-memory-retention/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audit-memory-retention", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install ben-manes/caffeine audit-memory-retentionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention .github/skills/audit-memory-retention && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "audit-memory-retention" agent skill from https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/tree/master/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention into .github/skills/audit-memory-retention/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audit-memory-retention", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install ben-manes/caffeine audit-memory-retention --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention .opencode/skills/audit-memory-retention && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "audit-memory-retention" agent skill from https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/tree/master/.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention into .opencode/skills/audit-memory-retention/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audit-memory-retention", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
audit-memory-retention- GitHub stars
- 18k
- Token cost
- ~572 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 285 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 33
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
Analyze reference retention paths that prevent GC of removed entries
- Works in 10 steps: Eviction deques: Can dead nodes remain… → Timer wheel: Are removed nodes always… → Write buffer: Do enqueued tasks hold… → …
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Audit Memory Retention is an agent skill from ben-manes/caffeine. Analyze reference retention paths that prevent GC of removed entries
Its SKILL.md is about 570 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: A high performance caching library for Java. The licence is Apache-2.0.
Example prompts
- “/audit-memory-retention”
Workflow steps
10 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Eviction deques: Can dead nodes remain linked? Are key/value/prev/next nulled?
- Timer wheel: Are removed nodes always unlinked? Can sentinels retain references?
- Write buffer: Do enqueued tasks hold strong references until drained? Upper bound?
- Read buffer: Are slots nulled after consumption? Can removed nodes be pinned?
- Removal listener queue: Can slow executors cause unbounded retention?
- Weak/soft references: After WeakKeyReference is enqueued, is the value still reachable?
- Async values: Can removed-but-incomplete futures be pinned via whenComplete?
- Cache views/iterators: Can long-lived iterators pin removed entries?
- jcache EventDispatcher: per-thread pending synchronous-listener futures —
- jcache in-flight futures: does every async path remove its future from
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e972fb0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Audit Memory Retention loads about 572 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 285 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from ben-manes/caffeine at commit e972fb0, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© ben-manes). 285 words, ~572 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- audit-memory-retention
- description
- Analyze reference retention paths that prevent GC of removed entries
- context
- fork
- agent
- auditor
- disable-model-invocation
- true
Analyze the cache for memory retention defects — cases where logically removed entries remain reachable through internal data structures.
This is NOT about liveness. Assume the entry IS removed from the CHM. The question is whether internal references still pin the key, value, or node in memory.
Assume at least one retention path exists where removed entries remain reachable longer than necessary. If your analysis yields zero findings, re-examine the write buffer and removal listener queue — explain specifically why retention is bounded.
Trace what happens to references after removal in each data structure:
- Eviction deques: Can dead nodes remain linked? Are key/value/prev/next nulled?
- Timer wheel: Are removed nodes always unlinked? Can sentinels retain references?
- Write buffer: Do enqueued tasks hold strong references until drained? Upper bound?
- Read buffer: Are slots nulled after consumption? Can removed nodes be pinned?
- Removal listener queue: Can slow executors cause unbounded retention?
- Weak/soft references: After WeakKeyReference is enqueued, is the value still reachable? After WeakValueReference is enqueued, is the key still reachable?
- Async values: Can removed-but-incomplete futures be pinned via whenComplete?
- Cache views/iterators: Can long-lived iterators pin removed entries?
- jcache EventDispatcher: per-thread pending synchronous-listener futures — is every publish on a thread paired with awaitSynchronous()/ignoreSynchronous() (or a Quietly variant), including loads running on executor/refresh threads?
- jcache in-flight futures: does every async path remove its future from the in-flight set on all completion paths, including exceptional ones?
For each retention path:
- State the reference chain from GC root to retained object
- State retention duration (bounded by maintenance? unbounded?)
- Assess severity: transient vs persistent
Do not report intentional strong references or retention bounded by a single maintenance cycle (unless maintenance can be delayed indefinitely).
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Files
Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/audit-memory-retention of ben-manes/caffeine.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit e972fb0
Compare with similar skills
Audit Memory Retention next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audit Memory Retention this skillben-manes/caffeine | 18k | — | ~572 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Culture Retentionsickn33/agentic-awesome-skills | 47k | 1 repos | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Retently AutomationComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills | 77k | 3 repos | ~734 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Dead Code Removercode-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent | 70k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Rust Path Typesopeninterpreter/openinterpreter | 69k | 2 repos | ~605 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Convex Retentionopenclaw/clawhub | 9.5k | — | ~448 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Audit Memory Retention
What does Audit Memory Retention do?
Analyze reference retention paths that prevent GC of removed entries. Audit Memory Retention is an agent skill from ben-manes/caffeine.
How do I install Audit Memory Retention in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention in ben-manes/caffeine) into .claude/skills/audit-memory-retention in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Audit Memory Retention in Codex?
Run `npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/audit-memory-retention in ben-manes/caffeine) into .agents/skills/audit-memory-retention in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Audit Memory Retention in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ben-manes/caffeine --skill audit-memory-retention -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/audit-memory-retention, .gemini/skills/audit-memory-retention, .github/skills/audit-memory-retention and .opencode/skills/audit-memory-retention in your project.
What does Audit Memory Retention need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Audit Memory Retention is instructions for the agent only.
Does Audit Memory Retention access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Audit Memory Retention safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Audit Memory Retention use?
Audit Memory Retention is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Audit Memory Retention use?
About 572 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Audit Memory Retention?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Audit Memory Retention: Culture Retention (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars), Retently Automation (ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, 77k stars), Dead Code Remover (code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent, 70k stars) and Rust Path Types (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Audit Memory Retention?
ben-manes (a GitHub user) maintains it in ben-manes/caffeine, which has 17,881 GitHub stars. The repository holds 33 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.
Source: ben-manes/caffeine on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.