What is apple-notes-search?

A search and connection tool for the user's own Apple Notes. It combines keyword and meaning-based search with links between related notes and cited summaries.

Use it to find notes, trace topics or entities, connect separate ideas, and create a cited synthesis of personal notes.

It helps recover past notes and discover connections that are difficult to find by browsing folders or searching exact words.

apple-notes-search — Skill for Claude Code by Bilal140202

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 Bilal140202/the-lord-of-the-skills --skill connerkward__mcp-apple-notes

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bilal140202/the-lord-of-the-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 209 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,688 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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	$0.00209	$0.01688
Opus 5.5	$0.00084	$0.00675
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00042	$0.00338
Haiku 4.5	$0.00021	$0.00169

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bb15afe64cf9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

apple-notes-search scanned grade C with 2 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 1mo 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

1. **Install bun** (if absent): `curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. **Install bun** (if absent): `curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash`

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to apple-notes-search — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/fangorn/claude-code/connerkward__mcp-apple-notes/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Notes search & connection-discovery

apple-notes is an MCP server for semantic search and connection-discovery across the user's own Apple Notes — hybrid search, Swanson-ABC bridges, entity threads, and cited synthesis over everything they've written. Embeddings, search, BM25, clustering, and bridges run on-device; only synthesis generation calls an LLM (local OR cloud, the user's choice).

This skill covers (1) the one-time setup you must walk the user through, and (2) which tool to reach for, since the server exposes many.

First: is the MCP connected?

If apple-notes tools are not available, the server isn't registered yet — do the Setup below before anything else. If tools exist but a search returns "not indexed" or empty, run index-notes first (see Ranking caveats).

Setup (walk the user through this — it's the skill's real value)

The server reads Apple Notes' SQLite store directly, so the bun binary needs Full Disk Access. Steps, in order:

Install bun (if absent): curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

Clone + install deps:

git clone https://github.com/connerkward/mcp-apple-notes
cd mcp-apple-notes && bun install

Grant Full Disk Access to bun. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access, click +, and add ~/.bun/bin/bun (press Cmd+Shift+G in the file picker and paste the path). Without this the server cannot read NoteStore.sqlite and every call fails with a permissions error. (bun install's postinstall tries to open this pane automatically.)
Register the MCP server (pick the user's client):
- Claude Code: claude mcp add apple-notes -- bun /absolute/path/to/mcp-apple-notes/index.ts --stdio
- Claude Desktop: add to claude_desktop_config.json:
```
{ "mcpServers": { "apple-notes": {
    "command": "/Users/<you>/.bun/bin/bun",
    "args": ["/Users/<you>/mcp-apple-notes/index.ts", "--stdio"] } } }
```
- As a Claude Code plugin (bundles this skill too): /plugin marketplace add connerkward/ckw-skills then /plugin install apple-notes@connerkward.
Restart the client, then tell the user to ask "Index my Apple Notes" (or call index-notes). First index of ~1,800 notes takes a few seconds.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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.

1mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 209 tokens per session scan C bb15afe64cf9

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apple-notes-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bilal140202/the-lord-of-the-skills (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 1,688 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to apple-notes-search, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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