A skill for organizing a personal knowledge base with PARA: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It includes scripts for creating, checking, navigating, and archiving the structure.

Use it to create a PARA knowledge base, reorganize existing notes, generate navigation files, validate the structure, and archive completed projects.

It helps decide where each note belongs based on whether it has a deadline, represents an ongoing responsibility, is reference material, or is inactive. This reduces clutter and makes the knowledge base easier for people and AI tools to navigate.

para-pkm — Skill for Claude Code by Agentic-Insights

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.

Any agent

npx skills add Agentic-Insights/foundry --skill para-pkm

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Agentic-Insights/foundry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install para-pkm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 992 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00122	$0.00992
Opus 5	$0.00061	$0.00496
Sonnet 5	$0.00024	$0.00198
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00099

Measured 6d ago against content hash 06a8c53efe9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

para-pkm 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/archive_project.py, scripts/generate_nav.py, scripts/init_para_kb.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/para-pkm/skills/para-pkm/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PARA PKM

Organize by actionability, not topic. Projects/Areas/Resources/Archives for optimal AI navigation. Monthly review cadence.

Core Concepts

Projects = Time-bound goals with deadlines (completes → Archives); includes projects/stories/ for job applications
Areas = Ongoing responsibilities (use _overview.md per area for context)
Resources = Reference material; when unsure, put here temporarily
Archives = Inactive items from any category

Decision Tree

Has deadline/end state? → Projects
Ongoing responsibility? → Areas
Reference material? → Resources (default for uncertain items)
Completed/inactive? → Archives

Quick Start

python scripts/init_para_kb.py <name> - Creates PARA + projects/stories/ + navigation
Identify projects (deadlines) → areas (ongoing) → resources (reference)
python scripts/generate_nav.py - Generate AI navigation

Scripts

Script	Purpose	Usage
`init_para_kb.py`	Scaffold new KB	`<name> [--path <dir>]`
`validate_para.py`	Check structure, detect anti-patterns	`[path]`
`archive_project.py`	Archive with metadata (date, origin)	`<project-file> [--kb-path]`
`generate_nav.py`	Create AI nav (<100 lines)	`[--kb-path] [--output]`

Templates

Template	Purpose
`assets/AGENTS.md.template`	AI navigation index
`assets/project.md.template`	Project file structure
`assets/area-overview.md.template`	Area `_overview.md` format
`assets/README.md.template`	Knowledge base README

Patterns by Role

Developers: projects/active/ features/bugs, areas/professional-development/, resources/coding-standards/
Consultants: projects/active/ deliverables + projects/stories/, areas/consulting/clients/, resources/templates/
Researchers: projects/active/ papers/grants, areas/research-program/, resources/literature-review/
Product Builders: projects/active/ launches, areas/product-development/{active,research,graduated,legacy}/

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

12 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

6d ago First seen · 91 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 06a8c53efe9a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

para-pkm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Agentic-Insights/foundry (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 992 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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