idea-ingest

idea-ingest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cynthiajones34/GBrain. It costs 60 tokens per session (827 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of idea-ingest, MIT.

A tool for saving links, articles, social-media posts, and ideas into a personal knowledge base. It fetches the source, analyses it, preserves the original, records citations, and links it to related people and subjects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone shares a link or asks you to read, save, or think about something. It helps build research pages, author profiles, source references, and cross-links.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of copying research into notes and keeping sources, authors, and related topics connected. It also preserves where each fact came from.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when someone shares a link or asks you to read, save, or think about something. It helps build research pages, author profiles, source references, and cross-links.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 827 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 $0.00060 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash e118bc32d504, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-ingest 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 9d 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 idea-ingest — 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/idea-ingest/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Ingest Skill

Filing rule: Read skills/_brain-filing-rules.md before creating any new page.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

  • Every ingested item has a brain page with genuine analysis (not just a summary)
  • The author gets a people page (MANDATORY for anyone whose thinking is worth ingesting)
  • Cross-links created bidirectionally (source ↔ author, source ↔ mentioned entities)
  • Raw source preserved for provenance via gbrain files upload-raw
  • Every fact has an inline [Source: ...] citation
  • Filing follows primary subject rules (not format-based)

Convention: See skills/conventions/quality.md for Iron Law back-linking.

Every mention of a person or company with a brain page MUST create a back-link. Format: - **YYYY-MM-DD** | Referenced in [page title](path) — brief context

Phases

  1. Fetch the content. Use appropriate tools for the content type (web fetch for articles, API for tweets, PDF reader for documents).

  2. Upload raw source. Save the fetched content for provenance: gbrain files upload-raw <file> --page <slug>

  3. Identify the author — MANDATORY people page. Anyone whose thinking is worth ingesting is worth tracking.

    • Search brain for existing author page
    • If no page → CREATE ONE with compiled truth + timeline format
    • If page exists → update timeline with this new publication
    • Cross-link both directions
  4. Save to brain. File by PRIMARY SUBJECT (read skills/_brain-filing-rules.md):

    • About a person → people/
    • About a company → companies/
    • A reusable framework → concepts/
    • Raw data dump → sources/
  5. Analyze for the user. Reply with analysis that connects the content to what the brain knows. Think about:

    • Active projects — is this relevant?
    • Contradictions — does this challenge existing brain knowledge?
    • Connections — does this involve known people/companies?
    • Don't just summarize. Tell the user things they wouldn't have noticed.
  6. Sync. gbrain sync to update the index.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 9d ago First seen · 105 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A e118bc32d504

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idea-ingest is a skill published in the GitHub repository cynthiajones34/GBrain (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 827 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 idea-ingest, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.