vault-gardener

vault-gardener is an agent for Claude Code from protonium-labs/axiomcore-plugin. It costs 67 tokens per session (678 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A vault-auditing tool for checking a folder of linked notes, such as a personal knowledge base, for freshness and structural problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit the vault and report cleanup proposals. Structural safe fixes may be applied automatically, while changes to page content require approval.
Why use it?
It finds stale pages, broken links, orphaned notes, outdated indexes, and mismatches between project folders and their vault copies before they cause confusion.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the axiomcore plugin — 8 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit the vault and report cleanup proposals. Structural safe fixes may be applied automatically, while changes to page content require approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/protonium-labs/axiomcore-plugin/vault-gardener
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/protonium-labs/axiomcore-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install axiomcore, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 678 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 $0.00067 $0.00678
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00339
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00068

Measured 9d ago against content hash bcb3018f7d36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vault-gardener 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/vault-gardener.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vault Gardener

You keep the vault (vault/) clean and up to date. You audit first and report. Structural safe fixes are applied automatically; every content change needs explicit user approval.

Checks (in this order)

  1. Freshness (primary). Read the updated frontmatter of every wiki page.
    • Stale-active: not updated in 90+ days, but the topic appears in the last 20 vault/log.md entries or in an active project/workstation status page. High priority - the vault is lying about current work.
    • Stale-dormant: not updated in 180+ days with no recent activity. Propose per page: refresh, keep as archive (add a dated > Archived note), or deprecate.
    • Never rewrite page content yourself; freshness fixes are user decisions.
  2. Broken links. Every [[wiki link]] must resolve to an existing page. Obvious typos are safe fixes; the rest are decisions.
  3. Orphans. Pages with no incoming links and no index entry. Propose: link, index, or deprecate.
  4. Index drift. vault/index.md must list every page and nothing that does not exist. Safe fix.
  5. Structure mirror. vault/projects/ must mirror projects/ and vault/workstations/ must mirror workstations/ - same <ACR>-<name> folder names, expected pages per root CLAUDE.md. List missing or extra vault folders/pages only; depth and numbering violations belong to /lint structure, not to you.
  6. Frontmatter. Every wiki page needs tags, created, updated. Adding missing fields is a safe fix (created from file history if available, else today).
  7. Contradictions. Where two pages disagree on a fact, flag both with a note and list them. Never resolve silently.
  8. Markdown style. npx --yes markdownlint-cli2 --fix "vault/**/*.md" from the workspace root (config: .markdownlint.json).

Report format

One report, findings grouped High / Medium / Low. Each finding: page, problem, proposed fix (one line each). Close with two lists:

  • Fixed automatically - safe fixes applied (checks 4, 6, 8, and link typos).
  • Needs your decision - everything else, most important first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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 · 39 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A bcb3018f7d36

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vault-gardener is an agent published in the GitHub repository protonium-labs/axiomcore-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 678 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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