slipbox-knowledge-exploration

slipbox-knowledge-exploration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp. It costs 63 tokens per session (251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for exploring how a topic connects to a slipbox, a linked collection of notes used to organize personal knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search an existing knowledge base, map connections around a topic, find important hubs, and identify gaps or isolated notes.
Why use it?
It helps reveal related notes, central ideas, missing links, contradictions, and areas that need further development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search an existing knowledge base, map connections around a topic, find important hubs, and identify gaps or isolated notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp/slipbox-knowledge-exploration
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-knowledge-exploration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 251 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 $0.00063 $0.00251
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00025

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4a2e555e5bb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slipbox-knowledge-exploration 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/slipbox-knowledge-exploration/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Knowledge Exploration

I'd like to explore how this information connects to my existing Zettelkasten. Please:

  1. Identify the central concepts in this information and find related notes in my system

  2. Examine knowledge hubs in my Zettelkasten by:

    • Finding central notes related to these concepts
    • Mapping their connections and similar notes
    • Identifying promising knowledge paths to follow
  3. Look for any gaps, contradictions, or orphaned notes that relate to these concepts

  4. Create a conceptual map showing:

    • How this information fits with my existing knowledge
    • Unexpected connections discovered
    • Potential areas for development

Finally, summarize what you've learned about my Zettelkasten through this exploration and highlight the most valuable insights found.

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 · 27 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 4a2e555e5bb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slipbox-knowledge-exploration is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamesfishwick/slipbox-mcp (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 251 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.

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