meta-local-notes

meta-local-notes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,073 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for CLAUDE.local.md, a machine-specific notes file that coding agents load automatically but that version control and continuous checks usually ignore. It verifies the file's environment claims and removes notes that belong in shared project documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review stale or bloated local notes, confirm machine and environment details, and move findings to the appropriate shared documents when needed.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from trusting outdated local facts or treating personal notes as current project rules. It also reduces duplicated documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-patterns-plugin plugin — 21 skills shipped together

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/laurigates/claude-plugins/meta-local-notes
Any agent
npx skills add laurigates/claude-plugins --skill meta-local-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-patterns-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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 meta-local-notes

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/meta-local-notes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/meta-local-notes.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,073 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 $0.00046 $0.02073
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01037
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00207

Measured 4d ago against content hash 28b019e7dbff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-local-notes 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.

agent-patterns-plugin/skills/meta-local-notes/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Machine-Local Notes: Verify, Then Trim

A CLAUDE.local.md is the only always-loaded context file with no reviewer. It is git-ignored, so it never appears in a diff, never gets a PR comment, and no CI check ever reads it. Every other doc in the repo is defended by review; this one is defended by nothing but somebody happening to look.

So it rots in two directions at once, and both are invisible:

  1. Findings creep — session conclusions get written where they are convenient rather than where they belong, duplicating docs/adrs/, docs/roadmap.md, or the issue tracker.
  2. Silent staleness — environment facts that were true when written. Nothing re-checks them, and the file reads exactly as authoritative on the day it goes wrong as on the day it was right.

A stale claim here is worse than no claim: it is loaded on every turn, it is specific, and it is trusted. The failure mode is a session confidently acting on a fact that stopped being true weeks ago.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use a different skill when...
A machine-local notes file has gone stale, bloated, or contradicts the ADRs/roadmap You want to move always-loaded content to an on-demand skill — use meta-context-diet (load cost, not truth)
You are about to append a session finding to a CLAUDE.local.md and need the keep test You want to turn a session's learnings into new rules — use session-distill
You need environment claims verified against the live host before trusting them You want to move rules/skills between scopes — use meta-promote

The keep test

One question per claim: does this describe the machine, or the project?

Keep — environment facts that change how you develop or test here Cut — project findings, however they got here
Host and access: ssh target, hardware, driver/toolkit versions Measurements, benchmark numbers, VRAM/throughput tables
Where things live: checkout, caches, datasets, staged model files Root-cause narratives and experiment logs
How to run this project's proofs on this box (CI dispatch vs. manual ssh) Blocker and status claims ("X is blocked by Y")
Local gotchas that change how you invoke things: a shared GPU, a gated download, a cache that must live on the big disk, flaky ssh Decisions and their rationale

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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 · 167 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 28b019e7dbff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meta-local-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (57 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,073 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 2026-08-30.

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