mindmap

A method for organizing reasoning as nested bullet points, where each parent claim is supported by the points beneath it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting commit messages, issues, pull requests, code comments, or documentation with more than a few connected steps.
Why use it?
It makes multi-step explanations, decisions, and conditions easier to follow and lets readers stop at the level of detail they need.

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/juxt/claude-plugins/mindmap
Any agent
npx skills add juxt/claude-plugins --skill mindmap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juxt/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,159 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 $0.00118 $0.02159
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01079
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00216

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6c3188a2a9c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mindmap 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.

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.

plugins/chalk/skills/mindmap/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chalk Mindmaps — Structuring What the Reader Must Follow

Interpret MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, MAY, etc. per RFC 2119.

chalk:voice covers the register and the line-format rule. Load both.

The default

Anything the reader has to follow MUST default to a mindmap: nested bullets forming a tree. A sequence of events, a multi-step rationale, a set of conditions, a decision and its grounds.

Prose MUST be a deliberate exception, never a fallback — reserve it for a short causal argument where the connectives ("because", "so", "but only when") carry the meaning and the chain is only two or three links long.

The tree is a support structure

Every parent node MUST be a claim its direct children back up.

  • Read downwards it's a summary that expands on demand — the reader stops at whatever depth answers their question.
  • Read upwards it's an argument If each child holds, and the children are enough, the parent holds.
  • If the relation is serves rather than supports, you're writing a goal tree Load chalk:goal-tree, which has its own completeness test.

An arbitrary bullet list is not a mindmap. The test: pick any node and ask whether its children back it up. If they're merely related to it, you've written a flat list with indentation, the reader gets no argument out of it, and it MUST be restructured.

Subject lines carry the reasoning

Reading only the top line of each bullet MUST be enough to follow the whole argument. A paragraph underneath is elaboration — always an optional read, and it MUST NOT be load-bearing. If the point only lands once the reader reaches the third sentence of the elaboration, the subject line has failed and the bullet needs rewriting, not expanding.

  • One checkpoint per bullet. Each bullet is a place the reader stops, confirms they've followed, and moves on.
  • Bold the load-bearing words. The tree should be graspable from the bolded phrases alone, before a word of the surrounding prose is read.
  • Nest for sub-points, but stay shallow — about two levels. A third level of indentation is usually its own wall, so promote it or flatten it.
  • Cut hard.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 2d ago First seen · 162 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 6c3188a2a9c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mindmap is a skill published in the GitHub repository juxt/claude-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,159 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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