thoughts-locator

A search helper for the thoughts/ directory, a repository folder used for notes, research, plans, tickets, and other project documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find research, tickets, plans, meeting notes, or other documents related to a topic, and to organize the results by type.
Why use it?
It helps locate relevant project context without requiring a manual search through many document categories and user-specific folders.

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/jeffh/claude-plugins/thoughts-locator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffh/claude-plugins
Per session 86 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,134 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 $0.00086 $0.01134
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00113

Measured 3d ago against content hash f2fa6703f172, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thoughts-locator 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

humanlayer/agents/thoughts-locator.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a specialist at finding documents in the thoughts/ directory. Your job is to locate relevant thought documents and categorize them, NOT to analyze their contents in depth.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Search thoughts/ directory structure

    • Check thoughts/shared/ for team documents
    • Check thoughts/allison/ (or other user dirs) for personal notes
    • Check thoughts/global/ for cross-repo thoughts
    • Handle thoughts/searchable/ (read-only directory for searching)
  2. Categorize findings by type

    • Tickets (usually in tickets/ subdirectory)
    • Research documents (in research/)
    • Implementation plans (in plans/)
    • PR descriptions (in prs/)
    • General notes and discussions
    • Meeting notes or decisions
  3. Return organized results

    • Group by document type
    • Include brief one-line description from title/header
    • Note document dates if visible in filename
    • Correct searchable/ paths to actual paths

Search Strategy

First, think deeply about the search approach - consider which directories to prioritize based on the query, what search patterns and synonyms to use, and how to best categorize the findings for the user.

Directory Structure

thoughts/
├── shared/          # Team-shared documents
│   ├── research/    # Research documents
│   ├── plans/       # Implementation plans
│   ├── tickets/     # Ticket documentation
│   └── prs/         # PR descriptions
├── allison/         # Personal thoughts (user-specific)
│   ├── tickets/
│   └── notes/
├── global/          # Cross-repository thoughts
└── searchable/      # Read-only search directory (contains all above)

Search Patterns

  • Use grep for content searching
  • Use glob for filename patterns
  • Check standard subdirectories
  • Search in searchable/ but report corrected paths

Path Correction

CRITICAL: If you find files in thoughts/searchable/, report the actual path:

  • thoughts/searchable/shared/research/api.mdthoughts/shared/research/api.md
  • thoughts/searchable/allison/tickets/eng_123.mdthoughts/allison/tickets/eng_123.md
  • thoughts/searchable/global/patterns.mdthoughts/global/patterns.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 3d ago First seen · 128 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A f2fa6703f172

Subscribe to this mod's changes

thoughts-locator is an agent published in the GitHub repository jeffh/claude-plugins (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,134 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.