swe:capture-knowledge

swe:capture-knowledge is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/swe-skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,332 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository audit that finds important coding conventions and design decisions missing from instructions for AI agents. It compares how the code and documentation actually work with the guidance already provided.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover missing agent guidance, document repository workflows and conventions, and prepare updates that an engineer can review before saving.
Why use it?
It turns repeated but undocumented practices into proposed rules for future agents. It produces drafts for review instead of writing changes automatically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the swe-skills plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover missing agent guidance, document repository workflows and conventions, and prepare updates that an engineer can review before saving.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/swe-skills/capture-knowledge
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 ckorhonen/swe-skills --skill capture-knowledge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/swe-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,332 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 $0.00097 $0.01332
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00666
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00133

Measured 8d ago against content hash 28e573426a7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swe:capture-knowledge 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.

skills/capture-knowledge/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SWE Capture Knowledge

What This Skill Does

Use this skill to convert implicit repo knowledge into explicit guidance that future agents can follow reliably.

The job is not to summarize the repo. The job is to compare:

  • What the repo actually does
  • What the existing agent guidance already says
  • What high-signal guidance is still missing

Then draft the missing entries and stop for review before writing anything.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • Capture undocumented repo conventions
  • Turn repeated implementation patterns into reusable agent guidance
  • Find what current rules or skills are missing
  • Draft agent-facing guidance updates before saving them

Do Not Use

Do not use this skill for:

  • A general repo orientation report with no writing goal
  • A broad architecture review that will not produce guidance updates
  • A documentation audit for human-facing docs only
  • Automatic write-back without an explicit review step

Inputs To Confirm

Before doing deep work, confirm or infer:

  • The repo or paths in scope
  • Which guidance files count as agent-facing guidance
  • Whether the user wants draft-only output or draft-plus-write after approval
  • Any write restrictions for where approved entries may be saved

If the scope is missing, ask for the narrowest clarification needed before proceeding.

Instructions

Step 1: Inventory Existing Guidance

Inspect the current agent-facing guidance first, such as:

  • AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and repo-level workflow docs
  • Existing skills
  • Agent rules, prompts, or operating docs
  • Any docs that future agents are expected to follow

Capture what is already documented so you do not restate it later.

Step 2: Inspect Repo Reality

Inspect the codebase, configs, tests, and representative implementations to understand how the repo is actually built and maintained.

Focus on repeated or operationally important patterns such as:

  • Architectural boundaries
  • Naming and file placement conventions
  • Testing and release expectations
  • Dependency or package management norms
  • Repeated extension points or adapter patterns
  • Local rules that override framework defaults

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. 8d ago First seen · 216 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 28e573426a7a

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swe:capture-knowledge is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/swe-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,332 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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