thebrain-mcp-server: Skill for Claude Code

.agent/skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md

planning-with-files is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jqlts1/thebrain-mcp-server. It costs 54 tokens per session (925 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow that keeps plans, progress notes, and project knowledge in persistent Markdown files. Markdown is plain text with simple formatting marks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Organising complex work, tracking progress, planning research, and producing structured results.
Why use it?
Important planning information stays in files that can be revisited across a long or multi-step task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

This is jqlts1/thebrain-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on thebrain-mcp-server itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything thebrain-mcp-server configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jqlts1/thebrain-mcp-server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jqlts1/thebrain-mcp-server/main/.agent/skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jqlts1/thebrain-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 925 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 unknown 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 $0.00054 $0.00925
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00370
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0b3ba3c6d148, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-with-files 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 2mo 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.

.agent/skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md · 161 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2mo ago First seen · 161 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 0b3ba3c6d148

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planning-with-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository jqlts1/thebrain-mcp-server (5 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 925 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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