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.
npx agentmods add instructions/sweetrb/apple-notes-mcp/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sweetrb/apple-notes-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sweetrb/apple-notes-mcp/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sweetrb/apple-notes-mcp/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sweetrb/apple-notes-mcp/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.03509 | $0.03509 |
| Opus 5 | $0.01754 | $0.01754 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00702 | $0.00702 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00351 | $0.00351 |
Grade A, and why
apple-notes-mcp CLAUDE.md 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md - Apple Notes MCP Server
This file provides guidance for AI agents (Claude, etc.) when using this MCP server.
Overview
This MCP server enables AI assistants to interact with Apple Notes on macOS via AppleScript. All operations are local - no data leaves the user's machine.
Related Documentation
- TECHNICAL_NOTES.md - Deep technical research on Apple Notes internals, database structure, protobuf format, and alternative access methods
- TODO.md - Prioritized improvement roadmap with stability fixes and new features
Critical: Backslash Escaping
When sending content with backslashes to any tool, you MUST escape them.
The MCP protocol uses JSON for parameters. In JSON, \ is an escape character. To include a literal backslash:
| You want | Send in JSON parameter |
|---|---|
\ |
\\ |
\\ |
\\\\ |
Mobile\ Documents |
Mobile\\ Documents |
Why This Matters
If you send a single backslash without escaping:
- The JSON parser interprets
\as an escape sequence - Invalid sequences like
\(backslash-space) cause silent failures - The note creation/update will fail with no clear error
Examples
Correct - Shell command with escaped space:
content: "cp ~/Library/Mobile\\ Documents/file.txt ~/dest/"
→ arrives as: cp ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/file.txt ~/dest/
Correct - Regex pattern:
content: "Version pattern: \\d+\\.\\d+"
→ arrives as: Version pattern: \d+\.\d+
Correct - Literal double backslash:
content: "In a JSON string, one backslash is written \\\\"
→ arrives as: In a JSON string, one backslash is written \\
(One \\ per literal backslash, exactly as in the shell example above. \\\\
is the escaping for a literal double backslash — see the table's second row —
so sending \\\\ where you mean a single backslash stores two of them.)
Incorrect - Will fail:
content: "cp ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/file.txt ~/dest/"
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 247 lines · 3,509 tokens per session scan A 11832e538cec
apple-notes-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sweetrb/apple-notes-mcp (110 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 3,509 tokens to every session, about $0.0175 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 2026-08-30.
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