slipbox-analyze-note

slipbox-analyze-note is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp. It costs 91 tokens per session (807 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for improving a note before adding it to a slipbox, a connected collection of small notes used to build a personal knowledge system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether a note is focused, search for related notes, suggest tags and link types, and rewrite the note more clearly.
Why use it?
It helps separate notes containing several ideas, avoid duplicating existing knowledge, and create useful links to related notes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to check whether a note is focused, search for related notes, suggest tags and link types, and rewrite the note more clearly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp/slipbox-analyze-note
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp --skill slipbox-analyze-note
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 807 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 $0.00091 $0.00807
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1394eb81357e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slipbox-analyze-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 9d 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/slipbox-analyze-note/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyze Note

Analyze this note for integration into my Zettelkasten. Use the slipbox tools to ground your suggestions in my actual knowledge base.

1. Atomicity Check

Does the note contain exactly one idea? If multiple concepts are present:

  • List each distinct idea that should be its own note
  • Identify the primary idea vs. supporting details
  • Search first to flag any that duplicate existing notes

2. Connectivity Analysis

Do this before suggesting connections:

  1. Extract 2-3 key terms from the note
  2. Run slipbox_search_notes for each term to find related existing notes
  3. Run slipbox_find_similar_notes if this is an existing note ID
  4. Check slipbox_find_central_notes to see if this relates to a knowledge hub

Then report:

  • Specific existing notes this should link to (with IDs and titles)
  • Recommended link types for each connection:
    • extends — builds on the target note
    • refines — clarifies or improves the target
    • contradicts — presents opposing view
    • questions — raises doubts about the target
    • supports — provides evidence for the target
    • related — loose thematic connection

3. Clarity Enhancement

Rewrite the note to:

  • Express one idea clearly and completely
  • Stand alone without external context
  • Use terminology consistent with existing notes (check related notes for conventions)
  • Stay within 3-7 paragraphs

Provide the rewritten version in a code block for easy copying.

4. Metadata Suggestions

Tags: Run slipbox_get_all_tags first. Suggest 3-5 tags, preferring existing tags over new ones. If proposing a new tag, justify why existing tags don't fit.

Title: Propose a clear, searchable title that expresses the core idea.

Note type:

  • fleeting — raw capture, needs processing
  • literature — extracted from a source. REQUIRES at least one entry in references. Use fleeting if you don't have the citation yet.
  • permanent — refined idea in user's own words
  • structure — organizes 7-15 related notes on a topic
  • hub — entry point to a major knowledge domain

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 9d ago First seen · 96 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 1394eb81357e

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slipbox-analyze-note is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 807 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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