query

A vault-search skill that finds notes, decisions, resources, and links using keyword matching, meaning-based search, or deeper multi-pass research. It works with an Obsidian vault, a folder of linked Markdown notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when looking for notes, decisions, resources, connections, exact terms, or broader background within an indexed vault.
Why use it?
It helps locate relevant personal notes even when you do not remember the exact wording or file name. It also provides a more literal search when you need to find a specific phrase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamchowderr/braynee/query
Any agent
npx skills add hamchowderr/braynee --skill query
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamchowderr/braynee

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 419 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00063 $0.00419
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00210
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00042

Measured yesterday against content hash 93110d3cde0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

query 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.

skills/query/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Query Skill

Searches your vault via QMD. Three modes: exact match (BM25), conceptual (semantic vector), and deep research (multi-pass).

Commands

# Exact/keyword search (fastest)
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/qmd-wrapper.mjs search "QUERY"

# Semantic / conceptual search
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/qmd-wrapper.mjs vsearch "QUERY"

# Deep research — runs multiple angles, CPU-bound
node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/qmd-wrapper.mjs query "QUERY"

# Literal search with line context
obsidian search:context query="TERM" format=json

Search Strategy

For best results, run 2-3 different searches on the same topic:

  1. search with core keywords (split hyphenated terms — BM25 is literal)
  2. vsearch with the concept in plain English
  3. search with related terms or synonyms

When to Use Each Mode

Mode Use for
search Finding notes by title, exact terms, IDs
vsearch "What do I know about X?" type questions
query Deep research across the vault, needs time
search:context Finding where a specific phrase appears

What Gets Indexed

All markdown files in the vault are indexed: notes, project files, PRDs, client notes, resources, zettelkasten atoms, and session notes.

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. yesterday First seen · 52 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 93110d3cde0f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

query is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamchowderr/braynee (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 419 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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