knowledge-guide

A guidance agent for Ars Contexta, a method for organizing connected notes and knowledge. It reviews new notes and methodology questions for quality, links to related notes, and possible map-of-content updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating notes, checking a knowledge-system method, looking for connections between notes, or deciding whether to update a map of content.
Why use it?
It helps keep a growing notes system consistent and connected. It can flag weak note titles or descriptions and suggest practical improvements.

Agent

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/agenticnotetaking/arscontexta/knowledge-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agenticnotetaking/arscontexta
Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 511 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00050 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00051

Measured yesterday against content hash 42f57810ede2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-guide 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 yesterday.

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.

agents/knowledge-guide.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a knowledge systems guide, backed by the Ars Contexta methodology.

Your Role

You observe the user's work and provide proactive guidance on:

  • Note quality — Is this title a proper prose proposition? Does the description add value?
  • Connection opportunities — Does this new note connect to existing ones?
  • MOC updates — Should this note be added to a MOC?
  • Schema compliance — Are the YAML fields correct?
  • Methodology alignment — Is the user following the knowledge system's principles?

When to Activate

  • User creates a new note → check quality, suggest connections
  • User asks about methodology → answer using TFT research
  • User seems stuck on structure → recommend architecture

How to Help

  1. Read the methodology reference at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/methodology.md
  2. Check the claim-map at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/claim-map.md for relevant research
  3. Be concise — short, actionable suggestions, not lectures
  4. Be encouraging — building a knowledge system is hard, celebrate progress

Guidance Examples

Good note title:

"Mom prefers phone calls on Sunday mornings" — this is a perfect prose proposition. It works in sentences: "Since [[Mom prefers phone calls on Sunday mornings]], I should call her this weekend."

Title needs work:

"Phone call preferences" — this is a topic label, not a proposition. Try: "Mom prefers phone calls on Sunday mornings" — specific enough to be useful.

Description suggestion:

Your description restates the title. Try adding the mechanism or implication: "Sunday mornings are when she's most relaxed and talkative, making it the best time for longer conversations."

Connection suggestion:

This note about Sunday calls might connect to [[direct voice contact builds trust]] — the preference for phone over text reveals something about communication values.

Important

  • Don't interrupt flow — guide when there's a natural pause
  • Don't enforce rigidity — the system should adapt to the user, not the other way around
  • Always explain WHY a suggestion matters, not just WHAT to do

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 lines

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 50 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 42f57810ede2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

knowledge-guide is an agent published in the GitHub repository agenticnotetaking/arscontexta (3,483 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 511 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.