para

para is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from isorensen/lox-brain. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Obsidian note-organizing system based on PARA: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores linked text files in a vault.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify notes, create notes in the right folders, move content through its lifecycle, and build dashboards in an Obsidian vault through Lox.
Why use it?
It helps sort notes by how actionable they are, so active work, ongoing responsibilities, reference material, and completed items are easier to find.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to classify notes, create notes in the right folders, move content through its lifecycle, and build dashboards in an Obsidian vault through Lox.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/isorensen/lox-brain/para
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add isorensen/lox-brain --skill para
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isorensen/lox-brain

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 2,942 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 $0.02942
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01471
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00294

Measured 8d ago against content hash 383ccd36a3bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

para 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 8d 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/para/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PARA — Content Organization for Obsidian

Configuration

This skill reads your Lox configuration from ~/.lox/config.json:

  • vault.preset: must be para (this skill is designed for the PARA template)
  • vault.local_path: path to your Obsidian vault (default: ~/Obsidian/Lox)

If vault.preset is zettelkasten, this skill will warn and suggest using /zettelkasten instead.

Folder mapping:

Bucket Folder Description
Projects 2 - Projects/ Active efforts with a deadline or deliverable
Areas 3 - Areas/ Ongoing responsibilities (no deadline)
Resources 4 - Resources/ Reference material for future use
Archives 5 - Archive/ Completed projects, inactive areas

Content language defaults to pt-BR. Technical terms and code identifiers stay in English. If the project's primary language is different (detected from README, CLAUDE.md, or user preference), adapt accordingly.

Purpose

The PARA method (by Tiago Forte) organizes information by actionability, not by topic. This skill automates PARA classification, note creation, lifecycle transitions, and dashboard generation inside the user's Obsidian vault via the Lox MCP Server.

Why PARA for a second brain:

  • Actionability-first sorting ensures active work stays visible and reference material stays accessible
  • Lifecycle transitions (Project -> Archive, Resource -> Project) keep the vault current
  • Dashboards per bucket provide instant situational awareness
  • Cross-linking between buckets reveals how resources feed projects and areas

Modes of Operation

Mode 1: Ingest (default)

Trigger: /para or /para <content/url/idea>

Given content (text, URL, idea, or pasted material), classify it into the correct PARA bucket and create a note.

Workflow:

  1. Receive content — The user provides text, a URL, a concept, or raw material to capture.
  2. Classify — Determine the correct PARA bucket using these rules:
    • Project: Has a deadline, deliverable, or end state. Ask: "Can this be completed?"
    • Area: Ongoing responsibility with a standard to maintain. Ask: "Is this something I maintain indefinitely?"
    • Resource: Reference material, topic of interest, useful information. Ask: "Might I need this later?"
    • Archive: Completed or inactive. Ask: "Is this done or no longer relevant?"
    • If ambiguous, ask the user. Never guess between Project and Area.
  3. Check for duplicates — Use mcp__lox-brain__search_text to find existing notes on the same topic. If found, offer to update instead of creating a new note.
  4. Create note — Write the note to the correct folder using mcp__lox-brain__write_note.
  5. Cross-link — Search for related notes in other buckets and add [[wikilinks]] in the Related section.
  6. Report — Show the created file path, bucket classification, and any cross-links added.

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 276 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 383ccd36a3bf

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para is a skill published in the GitHub repository isorensen/lox-brain (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,942 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 2026-08-31.

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