smith-ledger

A manager for Smith Ledger, a persistent project knowledge base. The Ledger stores patterns, mistakes to avoid, tool preferences, edge cases, and project-specific details learned during earlier workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view the Ledger, search for relevant entries, inspect its history, export it, or manage entries by pruning, promoting, demoting, or resetting them.
Why use it?
It makes useful lessons from past work easier to find and maintain instead of leaving them buried in old sessions. It also helps remove or reorganize outdated knowledge.

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/attckdigital/smith/smith-ledger
Any agent
npx skills add ATTCKDigital/smith --skill smith-ledger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ATTCKDigital/smith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,524 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 $0.00059 $0.05524
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.02762
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00552

Measured 2d ago against content hash b2ee5d12c7aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smith-ledger 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 2d 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.

skills/smith-ledger/SKILL.md · 549 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 549 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Smith Ledger — Knowledge Base Management

Browse, search, and manage the Smith Ledger. The Ledger is the persistent knowledge base that captures patterns, antipatterns, tool preferences, edge cases, and project quirks learned from past Smith workflows. It lives at .smith/vault/ledger/.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Vault Logging

Throughout this action, log significant events to the vault session log. Read the session log path from .smith/vault/.current-session. If the file is missing or the vault is not initialized, skip all logging silently.

Append entries using this format:

### [HH:MM:SS] /smith-ledger <event>

**User Request:**
> <verbatim user message that triggered this action>

**Subcommand:** <dashboard|list|show|search|prune|promote|demote|export|reset>
**Synthesized Input:** <brief summary of args/filters>
**Outcome:** <what happened — counts, changes made, results found>
**Artifacts:** <files read/modified>
**Systems affected:** <system IDs>

Log at these points:

  1. On invocation — which subcommand was used and with what arguments
  2. After any mutation — prune, promote, demote, or reset operations that modify Ledger files

Ledger Directory Structure

The Ledger lives at .smith/vault/ledger/ with the following files:

.smith/vault/ledger/
  meta.yaml             # Overview stats — last reflection date, total counts, config
  patterns.md           # Validated approaches that work well
  antipatterns.md       # Approaches that failed or caused problems
  tool-preferences.md   # Tool/library/API usage preferences and gotchas
  edge-cases.md         # Non-obvious behaviors, boundary conditions, quirks in tools/APIs
  project-quirks.md     # Project-specific conventions, workarounds, and constraints
  archive/              # Archived Ledger snapshots from resets

Ledger Entry Format

Each Ledger file (patterns.md, antipatterns.md, etc.) contains entries in this format:

## <Title>

- **Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
- **Category:** implementation | testing | debugging | specification | audit
- **Confidence:** low | medium | high
- **Observations:** N
- **Source reflections:** <comma-separated list of reflection session dates or spec IDs>

### Context

<When and why this pattern/antipattern/preference/edge-case applies>

### Pattern

<The actual pattern, antipattern, tool preference, edge case, or project quirk — what to do or what to avoid>

### Evidence

<Specific examples from past workflows that support this entry>

### Related

<Links to related entries, specs, or code files>

---

Read the full file on GitHub · 549 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. 2d ago First seen · 549 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A b2ee5d12c7aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smith-ledger is a skill published in the GitHub repository ATTCKDigital/smith (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 5,524 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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