knowledge-base

A structure for a source-grounded knowledge base with three layers: preserved external sources, research notes, and finished articles. Each final document keeps a traceable link back to the material it came from.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving source material, researching topics, writing evidence-based articles, and organizing related documents into linked clusters.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsupported claims from becoming the canonical project knowledge. Clear status stages and links show how information was collected, interpreted, and published.

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/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/knowledge-base
Any agent
npx skills add inkeep/open-knowledge-skills --skill knowledge-base
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,889 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 $0.00133 $0.01889
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00945
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00189

Measured 2d ago against content hash a0641152b0dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-base 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.

skills/starter-packs/knowledge-base/knowledge-base/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Base pack — how to work here

This project uses the source-grounded knowledge-base layout. The whole point is a closed evidence loop: nothing canonical exists without a traceable chain back to a preserved source. This skill holds the workflow so the templates and log.md can stay clean — when you create a doc from a template you get structure, and the how lives here.

This skill is pack guidance. The platform /open-knowledge skill (read/write/preview/linking/grounding rules) still governs every markdown operation — this layers the KB workflow on top.

The user watches your build live — the editor follows the file you're writing, and the knowledge graph assembles on screen as pages get linked. No view management on your part; just author well: every page carries its links from the moment it's written (at minimum the hub/index page and its most related siblings — an unlinked page is invisible in the graph), and related pages share a cluster: frontmatter value (e.g. cluster: architecture) so the graph's cluster coloring makes the map read at a glance.

The three layers

external-sources/   raw sources, saved verbatim     (produced by `ingest`)
      ↓ cite
research/           provisional analysis            (produced by `research`)
      ↓ promote
articles/           canonical, decided knowledge     (produced by `consolidate`)

The loop is ingest → research → consolidate, mapped to Karpathy's three-layer knowledge-base pattern. Every downstream claim traces upstream to a preserved source. Cite local paths in external-sources/, never bare web URLs — the KB must survive link rot.

Karpathy's insight: "The tedious part of maintaining a knowledge base is not the reading or the thinking — it's the bookkeeping." Humans abandon wikis because maintenance costs exceed perceived value. These procedures exist so an agent can do the bookkeeping (fetching, summarizing, cross-linking, superseding) without fatigue. Skipping the cross-linking, supersedes chains, or raw-source preservation is what turns a useful wiki back into an abandoned one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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 · 94 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A a0641152b0dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

knowledge-base is a skill published in the GitHub repository inkeep/open-knowledge-skills (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,889 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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