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 skills add Abilityai/cornelius --skill graduate-insightsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/corneliusWrote 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/skills/abilityai/cornelius/graduate-insights)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/cornelius/graduate-insights"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/cornelius/graduate-insights/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/cornelius/graduate-insights"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/cornelius/graduate-insights.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Rogue Agent · line 221 Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 224 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 5.1 | $0.00031 | $0.01893 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00946 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00379 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00189 |
Grade A, and why
graduate-insights 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 10d 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 — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Graduate Insights
Review candidate notes from holding areas and promote valuable ones to permanent note status following Zettelkasten principles.
Purpose
The knowledge base accumulates insights in multiple holding areas:
- AI Extracted Notes/ - Personal insights from conversations (177 notes)
- Document Insights/ - Research findings from external sources (1,608 notes across 89 sessions)
- Books/ - Per-book scopes (the gems mined from each ingested book; the
_book.mdhub is a navigation note, not a candidate) - 00-Inbox/ - Raw captures and staging notes (27 notes)
Without periodic graduation, these insights remain unintegrated. This skill provides a structured review process to:
- Surface high-value candidates based on retrieval frequency and age
- Present each for human judgment (the essential step)
- Graduate worthy notes to
02-Permanent/with proper formatting - Maintain knowledge graph integrity
State Dependencies
| Source | Location | Read | Write |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q-values | resources/local-brain-search/data/q_values.json |
Yes | No |
| AI Extracted | Brain/AI Extracted Notes/ |
Yes | Move |
| Document Insights | Brain/Document Insights/*/ |
Yes | Move |
| Book scopes | Brain/Books/*/ |
Yes | Move |
| Inbox | Brain/00-Inbox/ |
Yes | Move |
| Permanent Notes | Brain/02-Permanent/ |
No | Yes |
| Changelog | Brain/CHANGELOG.md |
Yes | Yes |
Process
Step 1: Load State and Find Candidates
# Get Q-values for retrieval frequency signals
cat resources/local-brain-search/data/q_values.json
Find candidate notes prioritized by:
- Q-value > 0 - Notes that have been retrieved and used
- Age > 14 days - Notes that have had time to prove value
- Has connections - Notes with wiki-links to permanent notes
Collect up to 5 candidates per session from:
Brain/AI Extracted Notes/*.mdBrain/Document Insights/**/*.md(exclude CHANGELOG files)Brain/Books/**/*.md(exclude_book.mdhubs and CHANGELOG files)Brain/00-Inbox/*.md
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 226 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A e36bbf9328c0
graduate-insights is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (107 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,893 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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