thoughtbox:onboard

thoughtbox:onboard is a skill for Claude Code from Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox. It costs 110 tokens per session (2,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An orientation guide for Thoughtbox, a tool that stores structured reasoning sessions, branches, notes, knowledge links, and code notebooks. It explains the available operations and how to choose between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn how to record and resume reasoning, search the operation catalogue, query stored knowledge, work with notebooks, and inspect session health.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a clear starting point when using Thoughtbox for the first time or when the right operation is unclear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to learn how to record and resume reasoning, search the operation catalogue, query stored knowledge, work with notebooks, and inspect session health.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kastalien-research/thoughtbox/thoughtbox-onboard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox --skill thoughtbox-onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,425 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00110 $0.02425
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00243

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8f9d744a4b36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thoughtbox:onboard 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 10d 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.

.agents/skills/thoughtbox-onboard/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thoughtbox Onboarding

Thoughtbox is an MCP server that gives you a structured reasoning workspace. It persists your thinking across sessions, lets you branch and revise ideas, and builds a knowledge graph from your insights. This guide gets you productive in 5 minutes.

What You Have

Seven modules, two tools:

Module What it does Access via
thought Record structured reasoning steps with types, branching, revision tb.thought()
session List, search, resume, export, analyze reasoning sessions tb.session.*
knowledge Entity graph with observations, relations, traversal tb.knowledge.*
notebook Literate programming — create cells, execute code, export tb.notebook.*
theseus Friction-gated refactoring protocol (scope locking, visa system) tb.theseus()
ulysses Surprise-gated debugging protocol (S-register, forced reflection) tb.ulysses()
observability Health checks, session monitoring, cost tracking tb.observability()

Two MCP tools give you access to everything:

  • thoughtbox_search — query the operation catalog (what's available, schemas, examples)
  • thoughtbox_execute — run JavaScript using the tb SDK to chain operations

Quick Start: Your First Session

1. Record a thought

// thoughtbox_execute
async () => {
  return await tb.thought({
    thought: "Analyzing the authentication flow for security gaps",
    thoughtType: "reasoning",
    nextThoughtNeeded: true,
    thoughtNumber: 1,
    totalThoughts: 10,
    sessionTitle: "Auth Security Review",
    sessionTags: ["security", "auth"]
  });
}

The first thought creates a session automatically. Subsequent thoughts append to it.

2. Branch to explore alternatives

async () => {
  // Branch from thought 3 to explore two options
  await tb.thought({
    thought: "Option A: Token rotation with short-lived JWTs",
    thoughtType: "reasoning",
    nextThoughtNeeded: true,
    thoughtNumber: 4,
    totalThoughts: 10,
    branchFromThought: 3,
    branchId: "jwt-rotation"
  });
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 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. 10d ago First seen · 285 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 8f9d744a4b36

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thoughtbox:onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox (64 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 2,425 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 2026-08-30.

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