moss-notes

moss-notes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from brsbl/moss-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,784 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of syntax and file rules for creating or editing Moss notes. Moss is a note workspace that stores notes as Markdown files, with optional metadata and note-local assets.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create or edit workspace notes, choose a note type, place the title and takeaway correctly, manage assets, and preserve the ownership of note files and sidecars.
Why use it?
It prevents notes from being saved in the wrong place or structure and helps keep their content consistent. It also explains which focused rules to use for features such as links, comments, formulas, and canvases.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the moss-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

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/brsbl/moss-skills/moss-notes
Any agent
npx skills add brsbl/moss-skills --skill moss-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brsbl/moss-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install moss-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for moss-notes

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brsbl/moss-skills/moss-notes.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/brsbl/moss-skills/moss-notes)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brsbl/moss-skills/moss-notes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brsbl/moss-skills/moss-notes.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,784 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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.01784
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00892
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00178

Measured 6d ago against content hash 88ea5a767abb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

moss-notes 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.

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/moss-skills/skills/moss-notes/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Moss Notes

This is the canonical entry point for note layout, node selection, and core persisted syntax. Focused skills own the full contracts for frontmatter, comments, links, formulas and variables, canvas, and HTML.

Quickstart

  1. Edit the existing Markdown content file inside the note directory.
  2. For a new workspace note, create ~/Moss/Notes/<Title>/<Title>.md; never create app-owned sidecars.
  3. Put optional frontmatter first, followed by one # H1 title and then the body.
  4. Start the body with a standalone takeaway, following moss-writing-guidelines.
  5. Choose nodes with the routing table below and follow the focused skill for their exact syntax.

A workspace note is a canonical note bundle under ~/Moss/Notes/. An external note is a Markdown file opened from another location and may use a Moss-provided sidecar path. Do not assume the workspace bundle layout for an external note.

File Ownership

Path Owner Authoring rule
<Note>/<Note>.md Note content Create or edit directly.
<Note>/assets/ Note media Add referenced note-local files here.
<Note>/comments.json Comment content Edit only while following moss-comments.
meta.json, .folder.json, layout.json Moss Never create or edit directly.

Folders and nested folders under ~/Moss/Notes/ are valid. Preserve existing frontmatter and sidecars unless the task explicitly changes them.

Node Selection

This table owns the default selection rule. Focused skills explain how to author the selected node but do not override creation authority.

Need Use Boundary
Prose, grouped points, or steps Paragraphs, bullets, numbered lists Prefer the simplest readable structure.
Execution state Markdown checklist Use - [ ] and - [x].
Repeated inline attributes Table Moss Markdown tables support inline content, not nested block nodes.
Peer views inspected one at a time Tabs Use two to four panels unless the user asks for more.
Source, literal text, logs, or readable diagrams Fenced code block Generic flows and wireframes default to ASCII code.
Existing canvas, or an explicitly requested canvas/editable spatial diagram moss-canvas Do not create canvas for a generic diagram request.
Genuine interactive design or behavior unavailable in native nodes moss-html Do not rebuild native tabs, tables, callouts, checklists, or review workflow.
High-signal information, warning, or priority moss-callout Keep ordinary body prose outside the callout.
Numeric comparison or trend moss-chart Prefer a short table when visual shape adds no value.
Exact question, decision, approval, or review point Comment Fix ordinary editorial issues directly, except when annotating your own edits to an existing large note per moss-comments.
Note navigation or external destination Wiki or Markdown link Follow moss-links.
Reused or computed inline value Variable or formula Follow moss-formulas-variables.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 171 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 88ea5a767abb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

moss-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository brsbl/moss-skills (11 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,784 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 2026-08-31.

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