create-soap-note

A workflow for writing structured medical SOAP notes. SOAP stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan, the four sections commonly used in clinical visit records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn patient details, visit information, symptoms, history, examination findings, and vital signs into a complete SOAP note.
Why use it?
It ensures the medical note includes every standard section in one complete file, while clearly marking information that is missing or deferred.

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/hkuds/openspace/create-soap-note
Any agent
npx skills add HKUDS/OpenSpace --skill create-soap-note
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 704 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 $0.00021 $0.00704
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00070

Measured 2d ago against content hash b23607f5eede, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-soap-note 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 2d 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.

benchmarks/gdpval/skills/create-soap-note/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create SOAP Note

This skill defines the workflow for creating structured medical documentation (SOAP notes) by writing comprehensive content directly to a file. It ensures all standard sections are included and properly formatted.

Objective

Produce a complete medical visit record containing Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan sections without fragmenting the output across multiple files or incomplete drafts.

Prerequisites

  • Patient demographic information (age, gender, ID).
  • Visit details (date, provider, reason for visit).
  • Clinical data (vitals, symptoms, exam findings, history).

Workflow Steps

1. Prepare Content Structure

Organize the note into the four standard SOAP sections. Do not omit any section even if data is sparse (note "not applicable" or "deferred" where appropriate).

2. Draft Comprehensive Content

Write the full content for each section in one continuous operation. Avoid placeholders like [insert here] unless data is genuinely missing and must be flagged for follow-up.

  • Subjective (S):
    • Chief Complaint (CC)
    • History of Present Illness (HPI)
    • Past Medical History (PMH)
    • Family/Social History (FH/SH)
    • Review of Systems (ROS)
  • Objective (O):
    • Vitals (BP, HR, Temp, Resp, O2 Sat, Weight/Height)
    • Physical Exam (by system)
    • Diagnostic Results (Labs, Imaging)
  • Assessment (A):
    • Primary Diagnosis
    • Differential Diagnoses
    • Problem List
  • Plan (P):
    • Management/Treatment
    • Medications
    • Follow-up Instructions
    • Patient Education

3. Write to File

Save the complete note to a single file (e.g., soap_note_<patient_id>_<date>.md or .txt). Ensure the file is saved in one write operation to maintain consistency.

4. Review for Completeness

Verify that all four headers exist and contain substantive content.

Template Example

# SOAP Note - [Patient Name] - [Date]

## Subjective
**Chief Complaint:** [Reason for visit]
**HPI:** [Detailed history]
**PMH:** [Conditions, surgeries]
**Social/Family History:** [Relevant details]

## Objective
**Vitals:** [List values]
**Physical Exam:** [Findings by system]
**Labs/Imaging:** [Results]

## Assessment
**Diagnoses:**
1. [Primary Diagnosis]
2. [Differential]

## Plan
**Management:** [Steps taken]
**Medications:** [Prescriptions]
**Follow-up:** [Timeline]
**Education:** [Instructions given]

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 91 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A b23607f5eede

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-soap-note is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/OpenSpace (7,486 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 704 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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