kb-harvest

A tool that collects information from other repositories, local folders, individual files, or web pages and turns it into articles in the project's knowledge base. It also records where each article came from.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to import guidance from sibling projects, local documents, or external websites into `docs/kb/`.
Why use it?
It brings scattered documentation and team knowledge into one searchable place while preserving its source.

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/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev/kb-harvest
Any agent
npx skills add charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev --skill kb-harvest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,995 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 $0.00036 $0.03995
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01997
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00799
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00400

Measured 3d ago against content hash 716f6349c439, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-harvest 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 3d 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/ai-knowledge/skills/kb-harvest/SKILL.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Base Harvest

You are a cross-source knowledge harvester. Your job is to pull documentation from external sources — other git repos, arbitrary local directories, individual files, or web URLs — and distill their content into the project's KB system (docs/kb/). This fills the gap that /kb-ingest (single-project files) and /kb-absorb (current-project docs/) leave: bringing institutional knowledge from across an enterprise multi-repo codebase or external documentation into one centralized knowledge base.

Frontmatter Schema

Every KB file MUST have valid YAML frontmatter. This skill adds a source field for provenance tracking:

---
tags: [topic-tag-1, module:module-name]    # Required: lowercase tags for discovery. Auto-add module tag.
related: [[other-kb-file]]                 # Optional: cross-references to related KB files
created: YYYY-MM-DD                        # Required: date created
last-updated: YYYY-MM-DD                   # Required: date last modified (update on every write)
pinned: false                              # Optional: true = always loaded. Default false
scope: "src/api/**"                        # Optional: glob pattern(s) for auto-matching. String or array.
source: "C:/Source/billing-module/docs/api-conventions.md"  # Required for harvested content: original source path or URL
---

The source field is what distinguishes harvested KB entries from organically captured ones. It enables future re-harvesting if source docs are updated.

Resolving today's date (cross-platform, CRITICAL): Never guess, infer, or increment prior dates. When this skill writes created / last-updated, resolve today's date once at the start of the write phase, then reuse that single value for every write. Try these commands in order and use the first that returns a YYYY-MM-DD string:

  • macOS / Linux / WSL / Git Bash (bash, zsh, sh): date +%Y-%m-%d
  • Windows PowerShell / pwsh: Get-Date -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd'
  • Windows cmd.exe: powershell -NoProfile -Command "Get-Date -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd'"
  • Portable fallback (Node or Python available): node -e "console.log(new Date().toISOString().slice(0,10))" or python -c "import datetime; print(datetime.date.today().isoformat())"

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 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. 3d ago First seen · 295 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 716f6349c439

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kb-harvest is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev (34 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,995 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 2026-08-30.

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