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.
npx skills add diillson/chatcli --skill notesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/diillson/chatcliWrote 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/diillson/chatcli/notes)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/diillson/chatcli/notes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/diillson/chatcli/notes/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/diillson/chatcli/notes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/diillson/chatcli/notes.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00074 | $0.00499 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.00200 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00100 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00050 |
Grade A, and why
notes scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Notes (OS-native)
Capture quick notes using whatever is native to the OS. For Obsidian, defer to the obsidian
skill; this one is for the built-in notes experience.
macOS — Apple Notes (osascript)
osascript -e 'tell application "Notes" to make new note at folder "Notes" with properties {name:"Groceries", body:"milk, eggs"}'
List/search:
osascript -e 'tell application "Notes" to get name of every note'
Windows — OneNote / plain file
OneNote via PowerShell COM is heavy; the reliable cross-tool path is a markdown notes folder
($Env:USERPROFILE\Notes\): append a timestamped entry to a .md and search it. Sticky Notes
has no scripting API — don't promise it.
Linux — markdown notes folder
Use a ~/Notes/ (or $NOTES_DIR) folder of markdown files:
- Create →
Writea new~/Notes/<slug>.mdwith a# Titleand the body. - Append →
Editto add a dated bullet to an existing note. - Search →
@searchover~/Notes/*.md.
Cross-platform default
When unsure, use the markdown notes folder approach (works everywhere, greppable, future-proof) and tell the user where it lives. This keeps notes portable rather than locked in an app.
Rules
- Don't overwrite existing notes — append or create.
- Echo back what was saved and where, so the user can find it later.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A a6169a69cba9
notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository diillson/chatcli (93 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 499 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.
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05-improve
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10-todo
Split the user prompt into independent todos and run one executor agent per todo in parallel, then report a minimal table. Use when the user says "todo" or asks to fan out a multi-part request into parallel implementations.
09-for-sure
Run an iterative agent loop that retries until a runnable success condition passes. Use when the user says "for sure", "keep trying until", or wants guaranteed completion against a success command. Not for one-shot tasks or uncheckable goals.
12-cook
Manage project recipes/how-to sheets by listing, creating, updating, researching, or applying a recipe. Use for recipe, cook, /cook, list, new, update, research, apply.
claudeshrink
Automatically compress large natural text or log files before processing. Trigger when the user pastes massive text blobs, or asks to analyze a large file (logs, docs, transcripts), or provides a prompt that is too large for the context window. DO NOT trigger on source code files or structural data (JSON, XML).
agent-state-bar
A design guide for an agent status bar: a short, automatically updated summary of progress, remaining tasks, tool counts, errors, and system state placed near the latest model input.