knowz-setup

knowz-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from knowz-io/deepseek-knowz-plugin. It costs 41 tokens per session (936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for connecting Knowz, a hosted knowledge service, to DeepSeek Harness and mapping projects to Knowz vaults. It covers API-key configuration and routing files.

In plain words
What is it for?
First-time Knowz setup, refreshing vault mappings, configuring the KNOWZ_API_KEY, and troubleshooting unavailable Knowz tools.
Why use it?
It explains how to connect the service and what to do when Knowz tools are missing, while avoiding the wrong registration path for existing accounts.

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/knowz-io/deepseek-knowz-plugin/knowz-setup
Any agent
npx skills add knowz-io/deepseek-knowz-plugin --skill knowz-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/knowz-io/deepseek-knowz-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 936 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 $0.00041 $0.00936
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 4d ago against content hash 31f6e8da4f2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowz-setup 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 4d 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/knowz-setup/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/knowz-setup — Connect and map vaults

Configure hosted Knowz MCP for DeepSeek Harness, then write project vault routing.

Auth is KNOWZ_API_KEY (a ukz_ key from https://app.knowz.io/settings/api-keys). There is no DeepSeek store and no Authorize card on this host.

Primary install (do this first)

If Knowz tools such as mcp__knowz__list_vaults are already available, skip to Create or refresh vault routing.

Otherwise tell the user to connect the plugin — do not paste API keys in chat.

DeepSeek Harness

  1. Create a ukz_ key at https://app.knowz.io/settings/api-keys
  2. Set KNOWZ_API_KEY in the environment or $DSH_HOME/.credentials.yaml (export KNOWZ_API_KEY=ukz_…). Do not paste the key in chat.
  3. Install if needed: dsh plugin --profile web add github:knowz-io/deepseek-knowz-plugin. Local first-slice from the source monorepo: dsh plugin --profile web add ./hosts/deepseek/plugins/knowz. Official discovery is the GitHub topic dsh-plugin. There is no DeepSeek store.
  4. Restart dsh web.

Do not run /knowz register when the user already has a Knowz account — that path creates a new account. /knowz register is not login.

Do not paste API keys in chat. The shipped MCP row interpolates process.env.KNOWZ_API_KEY into Authorization: Bearer. Export + restart is the path that attaches the header.

For a second Knowz tenant (personal + business): two MCP rows with unique serverName values and two env refs. Same URL https://mcp.knowz.io/mcp is fine. Duplicate serverName fails at load.

Endpoint

Use https://mcp.knowz.io/mcp unless the project root has enterprise.json with mcp_endpoint. --dev may use https://mcp.dev.knowz.io/mcp. --endpoint <url> overrides.

Create or refresh vault routing

Generate knowz-vaults.md at the project root if it does not already exist. This file drives vault routing for /knowz-search, /knowz-ask, /knowz-browse, and /knowz-save.

  1. Call mcp__knowz__list_vaults to discover available vaults.
  2. For each vault, write a section:
    • ID — the vault id from the server
    • Description — what the vault stores
    • When to query — situations that should fan out to this vault
    • When to save — situations that should write to this vault
    • Content template[CONTEXT] / [INSIGHT] / [RATIONALE] / [TAGS]
  3. Set a Default vault at the bottom for cases that match no rule.
  4. Add a Trust & Freshness section: vault entries are point-in-time and may be stale — treat them as leads to verify against the live codebase, tests, and current docs.
  5. Do not invent fields; if information is missing, leave the section short.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 4d ago First seen · 59 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 31f6e8da4f2b

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knowz-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository knowz-io/deepseek-knowz-plugin (1 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 936 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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