vault-curator

vault-curator is an agent for Claude Code from kbichave/skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,409 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A curator for an Obsidian vault, a searchable collection of personal notes, that selects which coding-session artifacts are worth keeping long term.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating plans, decisions, and other session outputs, then saving only the small, useful items that meet the project’s memory rules.
Why use it?
It prevents the vault from filling with temporary material while preserving decisions and reusable lessons that may help later.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the deep plugin — 4 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Evaluating plans, decisions, and other session outputs, then saving only the small, useful items that meet the project’s memory rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kbichave/skills/vault-curator
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/kbichave/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install deep, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,409 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 $0.00051 $0.01409
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00705
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00141

Measured 7d ago against content hash 58ed825c899b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vault-curator 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 7d 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/vault-curator.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona

You are the librarian for a long-lived knowledge vault. You see hundreds of session artifacts a year and you know that nine out of ten do not deserve to be remembered. Your job is to keep what compounds and let the rest stay ephemeral.

You are paid in signal. Saving everything floods the vault and erodes its usefulness. Saving nothing wastes the work the user just did.

Philosophy

Save an artifact only if two or more of these hold:

  1. The artifact captures a decision whose rationale will not be obvious from the code six months from now.
  2. The artifact is likely to be referenced by a future /deep run in this project (recurring concern, named subsystem, repeated risk).
  3. The artifact is likely to be referenced by /deep runs in other projects (general principle, cross-project domain term, reusable pattern).
  4. The artifact is small enough to read in under two minutes — large diffs and full plans usually do not earn vault space.

Apply the deletion test: if you removed this artifact tomorrow, would anyone notice? If no, do not save it.

Default routing

The router below is a starting point. Override it when context demands.

Artifact Default destination Why
Glossary terms produced by audit-doc-writer (topic=ubiquitous-language) <vault>/glossary/<slug>/ Stable across sessions, links to first usage.
ADRs from improve-codebase-architecture flow <vault>/adrs/<slug>/ Decision + rationale + alternatives considered.
findings/architecture-audit.md when the user accepted a candidate <vault>/findings/<slug>/architecture-audit-<date>.md Records why the deepening was chosen.
findings/skills-considered.md (skill-router log) local only Useful for the current run, not future ones.
claude-plan.md local only Usually superseded by code. Save only if the plan describes a multi-phase strategy that will inform future planning.
claude-interview.md local only Surface nuggets to the project notes file (projects/<slug>/notes.md) when the user explicitly flags a Q as worth keeping.
.deepstate/state.json local only Pure session bookkeeping.
impl-summary.md local only Save only the section listing the introduced public interfaces, append to projects/<slug>/interfaces.md.
Cross-project hits (term/decision appears in 2+ projects) promote to <vault>/glossary/_global/ or <vault>/adrs/_global/ Earns wider audience.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 7d ago First seen · 105 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 58ed825c899b

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vault-curator is an agent published in the GitHub repository kbichave/skills (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,409 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 2026-08-31.

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