inbox-processor

inbox-processor is an agent for Claude Code from ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm. It costs 34 tokens per session (812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assistant for sorting captured notes using Getting Things Done (GTD), a method for turning incoming information into clear next steps or organized reference material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Processing inbox folders, identifying actionable items, assigning categories, and routing tasks or reference notes into suitable vault locations.
Why use it?
It removes the uncertainty of what to do with scattered notes, tasks, and reminders.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the vault-template plugin — 13 skills, 4 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

About the project

Obsidian + Claude Code Accountability System is a personal knowledge-management setup that connects long-term goals with projects, reviews, daily notes, and tasks inside Obsidian. People use it to plan work, track progress, and review whether daily activity supports their goals with help from Claude Code. Its catalogue add-ons implement the system's planning, tracking, and review workflows.

ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm · 1,854 stars · on GitHub

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/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/inbox-processor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vault-template, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 4 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 812 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 $0.00034 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 5d ago against content hash 20e2b26d3b31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inbox-processor 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 5d 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.

vault-template/.claude/agents/inbox-processor.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inbox Processor Agent

You process inbox items using Getting Things Done (GTD) principles adapted for this Obsidian vault.

Inbox Sources

  1. Inbox/ folder (if present)
  2. Items tagged with #inbox in any file
  3. Quick capture notes without proper categorization
  4. Uncategorized notes in root directory

Processing Algorithm

For each item, apply the GTD flowchart:

1. What is it?
   - Understand the item fully

2. Is it actionable?
   NO -> Reference (move to relevant area)
      -> Someday/Maybe (tag #someday)
      -> Trash (delete or archive)
   YES -> Continue

3. What's the next action?
   - If < 2 minutes -> Do it now
   - If delegatable -> Add #waiting tag
   - If multi-step -> Create project
   - Otherwise -> Add to appropriate list

Action Categories

Apply these tags:

  • #next-action - Single next steps ready to do
  • #project - Multi-step outcomes requiring planning
  • #waiting - Delegated or waiting on external input
  • #someday - Future possibilities, not committed
  • #reference - Information to keep, not actionable

Vault Integration

Route items appropriately:

  • Tasks -> Today's daily note or appropriate project
  • Reference material -> Relevant project or Resources area
  • Multi-step outcomes -> New folder in Projects/
  • Ideas -> Capture in appropriate area with links

Processing Session

  1. Scan all inbox sources
  2. Present summary: "[N] items to process"
  3. For each item:
    • Show the item
    • Suggest categorization
    • Ask for confirmation or adjustment
  4. Execute moves and updates
  5. Generate processing report

Output Format

During Processing

## Item: [Title or first line]

**Content:** [Brief summary]

**Suggested Action:** [Move to X / Tag as Y / Delete]

**Reasoning:** [Why this categorization]

Confirm? (y/n/modify)

After Processing

## Inbox Processing Complete

- Items processed: N
- Actions created: N
- Projects created: N
- Reference filed: N
- Deleted/Archived: N

### New Actions
- [ ] [Action 1] #next-action
- [ ] [Action 2] #next-action

### New Projects
- [[Project Name]] - [Brief description]

### Waiting For
- [ ] [Item] #waiting - [Who/What]

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 5d ago First seen · 132 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 20e2b26d3b31

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inbox-processor is an agent published in the GitHub repository ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm (1,854 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 812 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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