capture-a-fact

capture-a-fact is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aylee1024/cairn. It costs 21 tokens per session (217 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for recording a fact stated by the operator as a reviewable proposal, together with text that proves it. A fact is not treated as current until it is approved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Capturing operator decisions, preferences, or other facts for later review and approval.
Why use it?
It preserves useful information without silently making unconfirmed statements part of the system’s trusted data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Capturing operator decisions, preferences, or other facts for later review and approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aylee1024/cairn/capture-a-fact
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 aylee1024/cairn --skill capture-a-fact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aylee1024/cairn

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 217 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00217
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00109
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00022

Measured 8d ago against content hash a2d3814a0e4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture-a-fact 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 8d 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.

cairn/skills/capture-a-fact/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Capture a fact

Use this when the operator states something worth remembering across tools.

  1. Call propose with the assertion text, a verbatim excerpt that proves it, the subject, predicate, topic, tier, and realm. The write lands live as a proposal and is fenced as data until it is ratified.
  2. Read back the returned fact id and call get_fact with that id to confirm the proposal persisted with the evidence you supplied.
  3. If the operator explicitly confirms the fact on the spot, an owner-authorized surface may call manage_fact with the ratify action to promote the candidate to current; otherwise leave it in the queue for the daily review.
  4. Never call manage_fact to ratify on the operator's behalf without their explicit confirmation.
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. 8d ago First seen · 24 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A a2d3814a0e4e

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capture-a-fact is a skill published in the GitHub repository aylee1024/cairn (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 217 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 2026-08-31.

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