notepad

notepad is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KaydenClark/LLM_Workbench. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,221 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local JSON note that preserves the important context for one ongoing objective. It records decisions, findings, corrections, unresolved points, and next steps so work can continue after a context reset or handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or resume an objective, save important discoveries during work, retrieve one topic with its corrections, and remove notes only after their information is stored elsewhere.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being trapped in a conversation. It also separates reminders from verified facts, so resumed work still checks the current state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node workbench/tools/notepads.mjs list --objective OBJECTIVE_KEY.

Good fit Use it to create or resume an objective, save important discoveries during work, retrieve one topic with its corrections, and remove notes only after their information is stored elsewhere.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KaydenClark/LLM_Workbench
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kaydenclark/llm_workbench/notepad

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,221 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 $0.00056 $0.02221
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01111
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00222

Measured today against content hash afb9109d4a7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notepad 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 today.

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/notepad/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A notepad is the working context of one objective: what the owner directed, what you found and where, what you corrected, what is still unresolved, and what you would do next. It exists so that a fresh reader - you after a compaction, another agent, another provider - can continue without the owner reconstructing the conversation.

It is not evidence and not authority. A note never proves a claim, never authorizes an action, and never overrides the Contract. On resume, obey the current controls and verify live state; the note tells you what to look at, not what is true.

workbench/tools/notepads.mjs owns the structure - schema, safe revision-checked writes, discovery, bounded retrieval, dependency-preserving cleanup. This skill owns the judgment: what is worth saving, and when it is safe to remove.

1. Create or resume before the context is only in the conversation

Meaningful objective work needs a note; trivial conversation does not. The test is survival value: would losing this impair continuation or a focused handoff?

Resume by the strongest available signal - an explicit note the owner named, then the objective key, then the most recently created local note - and check relevance before using it:

node workbench/tools/notepads.mjs list --objective OBJECTIVE_KEY
node workbench/tools/notepads.mjs read --note NOTE --view current

--view current returns the compact resumption view and the revision to write against, without putting the entry history into your response. Start there. Create only when no existing note owns the objective:

node workbench/tools/notepads.mjs create --note NAME --objective OBJECTIVE_KEY \
  --title "TITLE" --focus "WHAT THIS NOTE IS FOR"

Live notes stay local and untracked, in a live collection workbench/manifest.json declares. Bare names use notepads/work/ on the new layout, or the legacy grilling collection when that room has not migrated. Explicit relative paths select other local JSON-notepad type folders. Handoffs are not JSON records: write them as Markdown in sessions/handoffs/. Schema and examples under notepads/templates/ are tracked and cannot be live notes. Never commit one, and never cite one as durable evidence.

For a new visible identity, use notepads.mjs allocate --prefix N with the same objective/title fields. The returned ID is the visible label and filename; no second identity is added. Read an allocated or legacy visible ID through --id ID, even when its existing filename differs. Use --note for the original filename/path lookup. Use one writer, preserve existing paths, and reconcile unreadable or ambiguous inventory before allocating. The Runbook owns alphabet, width and collision rules; neither an ID nor allocation grants authority.

Before dependent work, name the active note and returned revision in local execution state, verify relevant Actuality, and correct any stale current view. An unavailable runtime blocks the dependent capture operation; report it and continue only independent work whose context can safely be preserved.

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. today Changed · +23 lines afb9109d4a7b
  2. yesterday First seen · 178 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A f5b52e6176eb

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notepad is a skill published in the GitHub repository KaydenClark/LLM_Workbench (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,221 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-09.

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