vault-capture

vault-capture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os. It costs 133 tokens per session (2,042 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A note-capturing guide for Obsidian, an app for linked plain-text notes. It saves ideas, decisions, insights, and work outputs as organized notes with links and metadata.

In plain words
What is it for?
Capturing knowledge in an Obsidian vault, filing it into project or reference folders, and following the vault's local organization rules.
Why use it?
It removes the need to decide manually how to format, name, link, and file every note.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Capturing knowledge in an Obsidian vault, filing it into project or reference folders, and following the vault's local organization rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os/vault-capture
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 jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os --skill vault-capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,042 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 $0.00133 $0.02042
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01021
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00204

Measured 11d ago against content hash 06611953ec67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vault-capture 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 11d 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/vault-capture/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vault Capture

Capture knowledge into the user's Obsidian second brain vault. The goal is to make this effortless — like jotting something in a notebook, not filling out a form.

For the user's working style, people, and session-level vault rules: read CLAUDE.md in the vault root. This skill defines the structural rules for how notes are created, named, filed, and maintained.

Finding the Vault

Look for these indicators:

  1. A CLAUDE.md in the workspace root mentioning "Obsidian" or "vault"
  2. PARA folders (0 - Inbox/, 1 - Projects/, etc.)
  3. .obsidian/ directory

If the workspace IS the vault, write directly. If not, save .md files to the workspace and tell the user to move them to their vault Inbox.


Vault Structure

Folder Semantics (PARA)

Folder Purpose What goes here
0 - Inbox/ Landing zone New notes when you're not sure where they belong. Refile later.
1 - Projects/ Active work with a defined outcome Canonical strategy docs, project specs, active build plans.
2 - Areas/ Ongoing responsibilities + meetings Meeting notes (YYYY-MM-DD Title.md), identity docs, recurring context. Non-dated area docs (Active Priorities, identity notes) also live here.
3 - Resources/ Reference material People profiles, frameworks, decision records, tools, reference data. All people at top level — no subfolders.
4 - Archive/ Superseded, completed, or routine Organized by category subfolders. Every archived file keeps its backlinks and gets a superseded marker.

Naming Conventions

Type Pattern Example
People First Last.md Jane Doe.md
Meetings YYYY-MM-DD Title.md 2026-04-10 Weekly 1v1.md
Projects/Concepts Descriptive title, no version numbers AI Operations — Canonical.md (not AI Ops v6.md)
Decisions Decision - [What was decided].md Decision - Google Sheets as Data Layer.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 11d ago First seen · 169 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 06611953ec67

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vault-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository jenningsallen-art/second-brain-os (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 2,042 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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