edit

A command for changing an existing note in Apple Notes, Apple's built-in note-taking app. It can find a note by its ID or title and replace its content while preserving its creation time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for a note, read its current content, and edit its body, title, or folder through the notes command-line tool.
Why use it?
It lets you update notes from the command line without opening Apple Notes and manually locating the note.

Command

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 commands/cardmagic/notes/edit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cardmagic/notes
Per session 5 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 229 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 $0.00005 $0.00229
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00114
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00023

Measured yesterday against content hash a038345f7587, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

edit 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/edit.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Edit Note

Edit an existing note in Apple Notes. The created timestamp is preserved.

Instructions

  1. Check if the notes CLI is installed:
command -v notes || pnpm add -g @cardmagic/notes
  1. Edit the note:
notes edit $ARGUMENTS

Examples

  • /notes:edit 123 --body "Updated content" - Edit note by ID
  • /notes:edit --title "Meeting Notes" --body "New agenda" - Edit by title
  • /notes:edit --title "Todo" --body "New tasks" --folder "Work" - Edit with folder disambiguation

Workflow

  1. Find the note: notes search "keyword" or notes recent
  2. Read current content: notes read <id>
  3. Edit the note: notes edit <id> --body "new content"
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. yesterday First seen · 34 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A a038345f7587

Subscribe to this mod's changes

edit is a command published in the GitHub repository cardmagic/notes (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 229 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.