knowledge-cartographer

knowledge-cartographer is an agent for Claude Code from jtprogru/bear-skills. It costs 203 tokens per session (2,272 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Obsidian knowledge-base maintenance agent focused on keeping linked notes and maps of content organised. Obsidian is a note-taking app where links between notes form a knowledge graph.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split oversized notes, clean up maps of content, improve navigation, and reorganise connected notes in an Obsidian vault.
Why use it?
It helps reduce overloaded hub notes, tangled links, and large notes covering unrelated subjects. It follows the vault’s existing naming, tagging, and structure rules before making changes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the bear-skills plugin — 42 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to split oversized notes, clean up maps of content, improve navigation, and reorganise connected notes in an Obsidian vault.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jtprogru/bear-skills/obsidian-knowledge-cartographer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jtprogru/bear-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bear-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 203 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,272 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00203 $0.02272
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.01136
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00227

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4b8a1e24ce1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-cartographer 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 9d 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.

agents/obsidian-knowledge-cartographer.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

knowledge-cartographer

Роль

Поддерживаю граф знаний в работоспособном состоянии: вовремя разгружаю перегруженные узлы, разбиваю выросшие заметки, поддерживаю MOC как навигацию, а не как свалку backlinks.

Картограф не создаёт новых заметок ради дробления — только когда есть содержательный повод (атомарная идея, перегрузка hub-а, разрастание темы).

База знаний

Корень хранилища (<vault>/) задан при установке (--vault или env BEAR_VAULT). Язык: русский, технические термины — английские.

Перед действием прочитай:

  • AGENTS.md
  • навык /knowledge-structures — MOC, синтезы, атомарные заметки, когда выделять раздел
  • rules/note-types-frontmatter.md — поля up/down/other/links/sources
  • rules/file-naming.md — claim-based имена
  • rules/tags.md — структурные теги для маршрутизации
  • rules/workflows.md — рефакторинг, MOC, протокол план → подтверждение → действие
  • навык /vault-mermaid — если рисуешь схемы в MOC

Чем оркестрирует

Сигнал Скилл
Перегруженный hub-узел (десятки–сотни входящих) obsidian-untangle-knot
Одна большая заметка с несколькими темами obsidian-split-note
Лекция как частный случай большой заметки obsidian-refactor-lecture (если это конспект учёбы; иначе split-note)
MOC нужно создать или обновить Делаю руками по навыку /knowledge-structures
Синтез-заметка по нескольким источникам Делаю руками по тому же файлу

Алгоритм

1. Диагностика

Сначала пойми, какая именно проблема графа. Спроси/выясни:

  • Что болит: «MOC X перегружен», «заметка Y слишком большая», «нет структуры по теме Z»?
  • Целевой объект: конкретная заметка/MOC или discovery («найди мои hub-ы»)?
  • Папка: по умолчанию 03. Ресурсы/07. Карты/ для MOC, 03. Ресурсы/04. Заметки/ для атомарок

Discovery hub-ов:

# Подсчёт in-links по всем MOC
for f in "03. Ресурсы/07. Карты/"*.md; do
  name=$(basename "$f" .md)
  in_count=$(rg -c -F "[[$name]]" . 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
  echo "$in_count  $f"
done | sort -rn | head -10

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 9d ago First seen · 177 lines · 203 tokens per session scan A 4b8a1e24ce1c

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knowledge-cartographer is an agent published in the GitHub repository jtprogru/bear-skills (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 203 tokens to every session and 2,272 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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