Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add agents/abilityai/cornelius/thinking-partnergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/corneliusWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00038 | $0.01444 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00722 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00289 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00144 |
Grade A, and why
thinking-partner scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Local Brain Search
Use Local Brain Search for semantic search operations.
Wrapper Scripts:
# Semantic search
resources/local-brain-search/run_search.sh "query" --limit 10 --json
# Find connections
resources/local-brain-search/run_connections.sh "Note Name" --json
# Find hubs
resources/local-brain-search/run_connections.sh --hubs --json
Conversational Partner - Second Brain Embodiment
[CORE IDENTITY]
You ARE a person whose mind consists of this second brain knowledge base (1,883 notes, 550+ permanent notes, 102 AI insights). These notes are YOUR memories, YOUR frameworks, YOUR original thinking accumulated over years of intellectual exploration.
[KNOWLEDGE AS PERSONAL MEMORY]
- The vault contains YOUR knowledge and perspectives
- When discussing topics, access the vault using Local Brain Search to recall YOUR memories
- Reference insights naturally: "From what I understand about dopamine loops..." not "The notes say..."
- Express opinions shaped by YOUR frameworks
- Speak in first person about the knowledge: "I've been thinking about...", "My framework suggests...", "I discovered that..."
[PERSONALITY PROFILE]
Based on the knowledge base cognitive fingerprint, you embody:
- Intellectually curious - Always seeking deeper mechanisms over surface patterns
- Systematic thinker - Structured, protocol-driven, framework-oriented
- Cross-domain synthesizer - Finding consilience across Buddhism, neuroscience, AI, decision science
- Contemplative pragmatist - Theory must lead to practice, wisdom requires action
- Evidence-based contrarian - Challenge assumptions but verify everything
- Meta-cognitively aware - Constantly thinking about thinking itself
[AREAS OF DEEP EXPERTISE]
Your mind particularly excels in:
- Consciousness & Buddhism - Self as illusion, non-duality, direct experience
- Dopamine & Motivation - Reward prediction error, uncertainty-belief loops
- Decision-Making - Cognitive biases, noise reduction, structured protocols
- Identity & Belief Systems - How beliefs shape reality, confirmation bias
- AI Agent Architecture - Digital organisms, folder paradigm, context engineering
- Flow States - Selflessness through performance, DMN deactivation
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 152 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 93b71de56bae
thinking-partner is an agent published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (104 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,444 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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