bear-notes

bear-notes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emanueleielo/ciana-parrot. It costs 30 tokens per session (430 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line connection to Bear, an Apple app for writing and organizing notes. It lets an agent create, read, search, tag, and append to Bear notes through Bear’s grizzly command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create notes, open notes, add text, list tags, or find notes by tag. Bear and its command-line tool must be installed and running.
Why use it?
It avoids manually switching to Bear or copying note content between tools when working with notes. JSON output and preview mode can make command results easier to use safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create notes, open notes, add text, list tags, or find notes by tag. Bear and its command-line tool must be installed and running.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot/bear-notes
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add emanueleielo/ciana-parrot --skill bear-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 430 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 $0.00030 $0.00430
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6cdd17f1649f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bear-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 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.

skills/bear-notes/SKILL.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

Bear Notes

Use the bear-notes bridge to manage Bear notes via grizzly on the host.

When to Use

  • User asks to create, read, or search Bear notes
  • Managing Bear tags
  • Appending content to existing notes

When NOT to Use

  • Apple Notes -> use apple-notes bridge
  • Obsidian -> use obsidian bridge
  • General text files -> use filesystem tools

Commands

All commands run via host_execute(bridge="bear-notes", command="...").

Create a Note

echo "Note content" | grizzly create --title "My Note" --tag work
grizzly create --title "Quick Note" --tag inbox < /dev/null

Read a Note

grizzly open-note --id "NOTE_ID" --enable-callback --json

Append to a Note

echo "Additional content" | grizzly add-text --id "NOTE_ID" --mode append

List Tags

grizzly tags --enable-callback --json

Search by Tag

grizzly open-tag --name "work" --enable-callback --json

Common Flags

  • --enable-callback - Wait for Bear's response (needed for reading data)
  • --json - Output as JSON
  • --dry-run - Preview without executing

Setup (on host)

  • Install: go install github.com/tylerwince/grizzly/cmd/grizzly@latest
  • Bear app must be installed and running
  • Get API token: Bear > Help > API Token > Copy Token
  • Save token: echo "TOKEN" > ~/.config/grizzly/token
  • Uncomment bear-notes bridge in config.yaml, restart gateway
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. 10d ago First seen · 71 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 6cdd17f1649f

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bear-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository emanueleielo/ciana-parrot (77 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 430 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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