apple-notes

An automation for reading Apple Notes checklists and carrying out their unchecked tasks in order. Apple Notes is Apple’s note-taking app.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run supported shortcuts or named skills from a checklist, skip completed items, and mark successful tasks as done.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying checklist items into separate actions and keeps completion status in the note.

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/ivancampos/agents/apple-notes
Any agent
npx skills add IvanCampos/agents --skill apple-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IvanCampos/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 796 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 $0.00051 $0.00796
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5bb4cbc1ba00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-notes 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/dispatch_skill_item.sh, scripts/manage_notes.sh, scripts/run_checklist_note.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/apple-notes/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Notes

Run Apple Notes-driven automations with deterministic, sequential execution.

Quick Start

scripts/run_checklist_note.sh "AGENT TODO LIST"

If no title is provided, the script defaults to AGENT TODO LIST.

Fast Path: run ToDos

When the request is run ToDos (or run todos), execute the default checklist immediately:

scripts/run_checklist_note.sh "AGENT TODO LIST"

Skip preflight CRUD/search steps unless the user asks for them explicitly.

For direct Notes CRUD/search operations:

scripts/manage_notes.sh search --query "visionOS" --field any --limit 20

Workflow

  1. Resolve note by exact title across all Notes accounts/folders.
  2. Extract checklist <li> items in source order and detect completion state.
  3. Run only unchecked items (completed items are skipped).
  4. Dispatch each unchecked item through natural shortcuts or skill routing.
  5. After each successful action, mark that checklist item as completed in Notes.
  6. Stop on first failure (non-zero exit).

Checklist Syntax

  • Natural shortcuts:
    • Say <phrase>
    • Confetti
    • Record my screen for <N> seconds
  • Skill routing:
    • <skill-name>: <args>
    • Example: open-meteo-weather: --location "Boston, MA"
    • Example: apple-reminders: today --json
    • Example: apple-notes: search --query "visionOS" --field any

Supported Skills Via <skill-name>: <args>

  • apple-notes
  • apple-reminders
  • bird-x
  • browser-use
  • confetti
  • discord
  • ffmpeg-video-editor
  • git-search
  • imsg
  • launchd-non-apple-jobs
  • mailapp-send-email
  • open-meteo-weather
  • openai-docs
  • opml-reader
  • playwright
  • say
  • screen-recorder
  • swiftui-performance-audit
  • video-transcript-downloader
  • yahoo-finance
  • youtube
  • yt-video-downloader
  • skill-creator
  • skill-installer

Tool-centric skills and skills missing required local CLIs are dispatched via codex exec fallback.

Matching is case-insensitive. Empty checklist lines are skipped.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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 · 107 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 5bb4cbc1ba00

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository IvanCampos/agents (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 796 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.