read

A command that reads the full content of an Apple Note when given its ID.

In plain words
What is it for?
Retrieving a specific note from the terminal using its numeric ID.
Why use it?
It avoids opening Apple Notes and locating the note by hand.

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/read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cardmagic/notes
Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 113 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 $0.00006 $0.00113
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00056
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00011

Measured today against content hash b56b5661089b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read 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 today.

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/read.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Read Note

Read the full content of an Apple Note by its ID.

Instructions

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

Examples

  • /notes:read 123 - Read note with ID 123
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. today First seen · 26 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A b56b5661089b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read is a command published in the GitHub repository cardmagic/notes (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 113 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.