capture

capture is a skill for Claude Code from jzhao234/big-brain. It costs 70 tokens per session (306 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick-capture command for saving a thought, idea, link, or fact in the inbox of the big-brain second-brain system. A second brain is a personal knowledge vault for storing and organizing information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /capture or a request to remember something; it can also place project notes in the relevant project and identify possible tasks.
Why use it?
It records useful information immediately, so you do not have to stop and organize it while the idea is still fresh.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it with /capture or a request to remember something; it can also place project notes in the relevant project and identify possible tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jzhao234/big-brain/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 jzhao234/big-brain --skill capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jzhao234/big-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for capture

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for capture

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 306 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 $0.00070 $0.00306
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00122
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00031

Measured 11d ago against content hash c001a972c871, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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/claude/capture/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

capture

Get it into the vault before it's lost. Don't organize, don't ask clarifying questions; that's what triage is for. The target vault is whatever big-brain resolves (BIG_BRAIN_VAULT env, --vault, or nearest brain.config.json); don't hardcode a path.

  1. If there's an argument, capture it verbatim (lightly cleaned): big-brain capture "<text>". If the note obviously belongs to an active project instead (it names one), append it to that project's ## Notes and say so.
  2. If there's no argument, capture the most recent noteworthy thing from the conversation (the idea/decision/fact just discussed). State in one line what you captured.
  3. If the capture contains something actionable ("need to", "don't forget to"), also offer: "want this as a task on ?"

Confirm with one line: where it went. Nothing else. (If the vault has git auto-commit on, the capture is committed automatically.)

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 Changed c001a972c871
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A e21a003360f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository jzhao234/big-brain (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 306 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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