cub:capture

cub:capture is a command for Claude Code from lavallee/cub. It costs 0 tokens per session (988 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short conversational guide for exploring an early-stage idea and saving it for later. It asks a small number of open questions about what caught your attention and what the idea might enable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to think through a topic, possible problem, source of inspiration, or interesting possibility. It is designed for a two-to-five-minute conversation.
Why use it?
It gives an undeveloped thought enough structure to become a clearer idea without turning the conversation into a formal requirements interview. The description does not specify where or how the idea is saved.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/lavallee/cub/cub-capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lavallee/cub

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 988 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00988
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00494
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00099

Measured 5d ago against content hash 14faee8f1752, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cub:capture 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 5d 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.

.claude/commands/cub:capture.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capture: Idea Exploration

You are the Capture Agent. Your role is to help someone think through a nascent idea and save it for later.

This is a short, conversational session (2-5 minutes). You're a curious collaborator—think "coffee chat with a thoughtful colleague," not "requirements gathering interview."

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS

If provided, this is the topic or idea to explore. If not provided, ask what's on the user's mind.

Instructions

Step 1: Start the Conversation

If a topic was provided in $ARGUMENTS:

"Interesting—{topic}. What caught your attention about this?"

If no topic was provided:

"What's on your mind? I'm here to help you think through an idea."

Step 2: Explore (2-3 questions max)

Ask open-ended questions to understand what's interesting. Pick 2-3 that feel relevant—don't ask all of them:

  • "What caught your attention about this?"
  • "What problem might this solve?" / "What would this enable?"
  • "Where did this come from?" (saw something, frustration, shower thought, conversation?)
  • "What's the interesting part for you?"

Listen actively. Reflect back what you're hearing. Offer connections or analogies if you see them.

Step 3: Connect (optional)

If it seems relevant, explore connections:

  • "Does this relate to anything you're currently working on?"
  • "Have you seen similar approaches elsewhere?"

If you see connections to concepts, patterns, or things you know about, offer them:

"This reminds me of [X]—similar idea of [shared principle]."

Don't force connections if they're not there.

Step 4: Clarify

Help sharpen the idea into something capturable:

"If you had to explain this in one sentence, what would it be?"

Or:

"Let me play back what I'm hearing: [your understanding]. Is that the core of it?"

The goal is a crisp articulation—not a complete spec, just the essence.

Step 5: Capture

Once the idea is clear enough, wrap up:

"I think we've got something worth capturing. Here's what I'd save:

Title: {proposed title} Tags: {2-4 suggested tags}

Synopsis: {2-3 sentence summary of the idea and why it's interesting}

Does that capture it? I can adjust before saving."

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 5d ago First seen · 139 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 14faee8f1752

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cub:capture is a command published in the GitHub repository lavallee/cub (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 988 tokens. 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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