create-note

A note creator for a Brain vault, a structured folder of Markdown notes. It adds metadata, chooses a note category, checks for similar notes, and saves the new note with a consistent filename.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn an idea, source, insight, index, or article into a properly placed note.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of organizing notes and helps avoid creating duplicates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/abilityai/abilities/create-note
Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill create-note
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 472 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 $0.00015 $0.00472
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured yesterday against content hash 2bfa9c416bf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-note 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.

plugins/agent-dev/memory-templates/brain/create-note/SKILL.md · 94 lines

What it actually says

Create Note

Create a new atomic note in the Brain vault.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS - The note title or topic

Step 1: Generate Note Metadata

Create the note with proper YAML frontmatter:

---
created: [today's date YYYY-MM-DD]
updated: [today's date YYYY-MM-DD]
created_by: claude
updated_by: claude
tags: []
---

Step 2: Determine Note Type

Based on the content/title, place the note in:

  • Raw idea/captureBrain/00-Inbox/Quick Captures/
  • External source materialBrain/01-Sources/
  • Processed insightBrain/02-Permanent/
  • Index/overviewBrain/03-MOCs/
  • Article/contentBrain/04-Output/Articles/

Default to Brain/02-Permanent/ for most notes.

Step 3: Check for Duplicates

Search existing notes for similar titles or content:

Grep for the main keywords in Brain/02-Permanent/

If similar notes exist:

  • Show user the potential duplicates
  • Ask if they want to proceed or link to existing

Step 4: Write the Note

Create the file with kebab-case filename:

  • Title: "My Great Insight" → my-great-insight.md

Structure:

---
[frontmatter]
---

# [Title]

[Main content - atomic, single idea]

## Key Points

- Point 1
- Point 2

## Connections

- [[Related Note]] - relationship description

Step 5: Update Changelog

Append to Brain/CHANGELOG.md:

## [Today's Date]
- Created: [note-title] in 02-Permanent/

Step 6: Report

Tell user:

  • Note created at [path]
  • Suggest running /find-connections to discover links
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 · 94 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 2bfa9c416bf8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-note is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (11 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 472 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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