Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-cleannpx agentmods add skills/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean/archive-crawlerWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean/archive-crawler)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean/archive-crawler"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean/archive-crawler/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean/archive-crawler"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean/archive-crawler.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00070 | $0.02732 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00035 | $0.01366 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00546 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00273 |
Grade A, and why
archive-crawler 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 10d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to archive-crawler — 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
archive-crawler — The Universal Archivist
Convention: see conventions/quality.md for citation rules, exact-phrasing requirements when capturing the user's reactions, and back-link enforcement.
Convention: see _brain-filing-rules.md — this skill is schema-generic: it reads the user's filing rules from the rules JSON instead of hardcoding any specific era / archive layout.
Safety gate (REQUIRED, no exceptions)
archive-crawler refuses to run unless archive-crawler.scan_paths: is
explicitly set in gbrain.yml. This is a deliberate safety fence against
the agent over-scoping a scan and ingesting sensitive content (tax PDFs,
medical records, credentials).
# gbrain.yml — the allow-list is mandatory
archive-crawler:
scan_paths:
- ~/Documents/writing/
- ~/Dropbox/Archive/
- /mnt/backup/old-letters/
# Optional deny-list inside the allow-list:
# deny_paths:
# - ~/Documents/finances/
# - ~/Documents/medical/
If scan_paths is empty or missing, the skill exits with:
archive-crawler: refusing to run. No `archive-crawler.scan_paths:` allow-list
in gbrain.yml. Add explicit paths the agent is permitted to scan, then re-run.
This is a safety fence — the agent will not infer what's safe to read.
This contract is enforced by src/core/storage-config.ts (mirrors the
db_tracked / db_only allow-list pattern from v0.22.11 storage tiering).
What this is
Generic engine for exploring any tree of personal content within an
explicit allow-list. Works on local mounts, Dropbox API targets,
Backblaze B2, Gmail takeouts (.mbox), and similar archives. Filters
for "gold" (the user's own writing, ideas, relationships) and surfaces
it interactively for review. Skips noise (system files, configs, binary
blobs).
Concepts
Source
A source is any tree of files to explore. Sources have:
- type:
local|dropbox|backblaze|gmail-takeout|mbox|pst - root: filesystem path, Dropbox path, B2 prefix, mbox path
- manifest: a brain page tracking progress at
projects/<archive-slug>/STATUS.md
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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 321 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 10c529797e1c
archive-crawler is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,732 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to archive-crawler, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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