ai-crystallize

ai-crystallize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Abilityai/cornelius. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated process that turns topics with converging ideas into draft notes for later human review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create candidate notes in a separate AI crystallizations folder while leaving permanent notes and topic statuses unchanged.
Why use it?
It preserves useful conclusions without putting AI-generated material into the human-approved permanent knowledge base.

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/cornelius/ai-crystallize
Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/cornelius --skill ai-crystallize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/cornelius

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,861 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 $0.00054 $0.02861
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01430
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00572
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00286

Measured 5d ago against content hash 663057066b99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-crystallize 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/skills/ai-crystallize/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Crystallize

Autonomous companion to the human crystallization path. Each run synthesizes converged thinking topics into standalone notes written to a dedicated, segregated folder - never Brain/02-Permanent/.

Why this exists: Converged topics pile up faster than a human can crystallize them. This playbook captures the AI's synthesis of each converged topic so the conclusion is not lost - while preserving the one boundary the second brain must never cross autonomously: nothing enters the endorsed permanent knowledge base without an explicit endorsement act by the user.

The boundary, stated plainly:

  • This playbook writes ONLY to Brain/05-Meta/AI Crystallizations/, tagged provenance: ai-inferred, excluded from semantic indexing.
  • It NEVER writes to Brain/02-Permanent/, Brain/AI Extracted Notes/, or Brain/05-Meta/Reports/.
  • It NEVER changes a topic's status in the Thinking Registry (the topic stays converged), so /manage-thinking-topics crystallize remains fully available to the user for the real, endorsed crystallization.
  • Its output is a candidate for human review, not a permanent note.

Design principle

Automate the synthesis, segregate the artifact, gate the endorsement. The AI may draft what it concluded; only the human may promote a conclusion into the knowledge they will reason FROM.

State Dependencies

Source Location Read Write Description
Thinking Registry Brain/05-Meta/Thinking/THINKING-REGISTRY.md Find converged topics (read-only - never mutated here)
Thinking Files Brain/05-Meta/Thinking/[topic-slug].md Source of the converged conclusion (read-only)
AI Crystallizations Brain/05-Meta/AI Crystallizations/[topic-slug].md Output notes (the only write target for content)
Crystallization Index Brain/05-Meta/AI Crystallizations/INDEX.md Manifest of what has been AI-crystallized
Session Changelogs Brain/05-Meta/Changelogs/ Run log

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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 · 231 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 663057066b99

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-crystallize is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (106 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,861 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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