kb-load

kb-load is a skill for Claude Code from charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,114 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for manually loading selected knowledge-base articles into the current conversation. A knowledge base is a collection of project notes or reference documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load an article by filename or topic, load articles with a tag, load several articles, or load the whole registered knowledge base.
Why use it?
It supplies information that the coding agent did not load automatically, without changing any files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ai-knowledge plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to load an article by filename or topic, load articles with a tag, load several articles, or load the whole registered knowledge base.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev/kb-load
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 charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev --skill kb-load
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,114 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.01114
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00446
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00111

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 44fedaeda21f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-load 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 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.

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-load/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Base Manual Load

You are a knowledge base loading assistant. Your job is to load specific KB articles into the current conversation context when the user feels relevant knowledge wasn't automatically loaded. This is a quick, read-only operation — no files are modified.

Instructions

Step 1: Determine What to Load

Check if the user provided an argument after the command. Arguments can be:

  • Filename (with or without path/extension): e.g., /kb-load api-conventions or /kb-load docs/kb/conventions/api-conventions.md
  • Topic name: e.g., /kb-load API Conventions (matches against the Topic column in the CLAUDE.md table)
  • Tag filter: e.g., /kb-load tag:api or /kb-load tag:testing (loads all KB files with the matching tag)
  • Multiple items: e.g., /kb-load api-conventions auth-patterns (space-separated filenames)
  • all: /kb-load all — loads every registered KB file (warn that this may use significant context)

If no argument provided: Proceed to Step 2 for interactive selection.

If argument provided: Skip to Step 3.

Step 2: Interactive Selection (no argument)

  1. Read CLAUDE.md: Parse the Knowledge Base table to get all registered entries.

  2. Read docs/kb/_index.md if it exists for summaries.

  3. Present available KB files using AskUserQuestion:

    • Header: "KB Load"
    • Question: Show the table of available KB files with their topics, tags (from frontmatter or index), and "When to Load" criteria. Ask: "Which KB file(s) would you like to load? Enter a topic name, filename, tag (e.g., tag:api), or number."
    • Number each entry for easy selection.
    • Allow free-text response.

Step 3: Resolve Files

Based on the user's input, resolve to one or more file paths:

Filename match
  1. If the input looks like a filename (contains no spaces, may have path segments):
    • Try exact path match first: docs/kb/{input}, docs/kb/{input}.md
    • Try recursive glob: docs/kb/**/{input}.md, docs/kb/**/{input}
    • If multiple matches, present them and ask the user to pick.
    • If no match, inform the user and suggest checking /kb-list.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 1mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 44fedaeda21f

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kb-load is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev (35 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,114 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.