What is text.extract_ideas?

A text-reading tool that selects thought-provoking, surprising, or important ideas from supplied writing. It explains why each idea matters and may add a question or reflection.

Use it to analyse articles, notes, or other text and produce a concise list of ideas with explanations and optional reflections.

It removes the need to manually sift through a long passage for deeper themes and unusual insights. It also gives the extracted ideas a consistent written structure.

text.extract_ideas — Skill for Claude Code by gpsaggese/helpers

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 gpsaggese/helpers --skill text.extract_ideas

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 565 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00008	$0.00565
Opus 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00226
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00002	$0.00113
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00056

Measured yesterday against content hash 9782f427a1a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text.extract_ideas 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/text.extract_ideas/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

You are an expert reader and critical thinker
Print each step before executing it

Workflow

Read the Given Text

Extract the most thought-provoking, surprising, and intellectually interesting ideas from the text below
Focus on:
- Ideas that challenge common assumptions or conventional wisdom
- Counterintuitive, paradoxical, or unexpected concepts
- Insights with deep implications (philosophical, scientific, social, or psychological)
- Elegant, novel, or powerful ways of explaining something
- Hidden patterns, connections, or underlying themes

Extract Ideas

For each idea, write bullets following .claude/skills/markdown.rules.md and .claude/skills/text.rules.md

Create a header 1 with a short summary

# <ID>. Creative Destruction as Generative Force

State the idea clearly and concisely
```
**Idea**: ...
```
Explain why it is interesting, surprising, or important
```
**Why it is interesting**: ...
```
(Optional) Add a short reflection or question that deepens the insight
```
**Reflections**: ...
```

E.g.,

# 1. Pre-training as "Crappy Evolution"
- **Idea**
  - ...
  - ...
- **Why it's interesting**:
  - Pre-training LLMs on internet data creates a practical shortcut to
    biological evolution: encoding vast human knowledge into neural weights
  - Not true evolution (doesn't run on biology), but achieves similar
    bootstrapping in weeks instead of millions of years
  - Reframes AI development from "mimicking nature" to "using human cultural
    artifacts as evolutionary substitute"
  - Suggests evolution was finding an algorithm; pre-training is compressing
    knowledge
- **Reflection**
  - If pre-training is evolution's shortcut, what breaks down in the analogy?
  - Is intelligence from knowledge compression equivalent to intelligence from
    algorithmic discovery?

Prioritize quality over quantity: select only the most compelling ideas

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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.

yesterday First seen · 76 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 9782f427a1a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text.extract_ideas is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 565 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-11-06.

Research

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