brain-ops

brain-ops is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cynthiajones34/GBrain. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,467 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of brain-ops, MIT.

A set of rules for working with a personal knowledge base, including searching it first, adding context, citing sources, and linking related pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents look up relevant context before research, update pages with sourced facts, and maintain links between people, companies, and topics.
Why use it?
It keeps new information connected, traceable, and consistent instead of creating isolated notes or duplicating existing knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for gbrain. Also seen: mentions subagents; built for gbrain.

Good fit It helps agents look up relevant context before research, update pages with sourced facts, and maintain links between people, companies, and topics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cynthiajones34/gbrain/brain-ops
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 cynthiajones34/GBrain --skill brain-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cynthiajones34/GBrain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,467 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.01467
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00733
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 7d ago against content hash 40553ad3bf0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brain-ops 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to brain-ops — 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.

skills/brain-ops/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brain Operations — The Ambient Context Layer

The brain is not an archive. It is a live context membrane that every interaction flows through in both directions.

Convention: See skills/conventions/brain-first.md for the 5-step lookup protocol. Convention: See skills/conventions/quality.md for citation and back-link rules.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

  • Brain is checked BEFORE any external API call (brain-first lookup)
  • Every inbound signal triggers the READ → ENRICH → WRITE loop
  • Every outbound response checks brain for relevant context
  • Source attribution on every fact written (inline [Source: ...] citations)
  • User's direct statements are highest-authority data
  • Back-links maintained on every brain write (Iron Law)

Iron Law: Back-Linking (MANDATORY)

Every mention of a person or company with a brain page MUST create a back-link FROM that entity's page TO the page mentioning them. An unlinked mention is a broken brain. See skills/conventions/quality.md for format.

Phases

Phase 1: Brain-First Lookup (MANDATORY)

Before using ANY external API to research a person, company, or topic:

  1. gbrain search "name" — keyword search for existing pages
  2. gbrain query "natural question about name" — hybrid search for context
  3. gbrain get <slug> — if you know the slug, read the full page
  4. Check backlinks: who references this entity?
  5. Check timeline: recent events involving this entity

The brain almost always has something. External APIs fill gaps, not start from scratch.

Phase 2: On Every Inbound Signal (READ → ENRICH → WRITE)

Every message, meeting, email, or conversation that references a person or company:

  1. Detect entities — people, companies, deals mentioned
  2. Load brain pages — read existing pages for context before responding
  3. Identify new information — what does this signal tell us that the page doesn't know?
  4. Write it back — update the brain page with new info + timeline entry + source citation
  5. Create if missing — if notable and no page exists, create via enrich skill

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 7d ago First seen · 164 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 40553ad3bf0f

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brain-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository cynthiajones34/GBrain (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,467 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to brain-ops, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.