dream

A daily or weekly reflection command for a personal research vault.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find links between recent and older notes, spot themes in recent reading, identify emerging ideas, and choose a question or action to consider.
Why use it?
It turns stored notes into suggested connections, patterns, contradictions, gaps, and questions instead of leaving them unused.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the second-brain plugin — 10 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/letrplb/second-brain/dream
Any agent
npx skills add letrplB/second-brain --skill dream
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/letrplB/second-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install second-brain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,610 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 $0.00056 $0.02610
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01305
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00522
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00261

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3af42f600288, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dream 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 2d 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/dream/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/dream

Intent. Make the vault talk back. Without this verb, a second-brain is "a very organised way to forget things." /dream is the feedback loop — synthesis pushed at the user without them having to ask.

The output is a brief in inbox/, not a graph node. Briefs are prompts to think, not auto-generated content. If a brief surfaces something load-bearing, the user (or /extract invoked on the brief) promotes it to a synthesis claim in notes/synthesis/.

This separation is deliberate: the model can identify candidate connections; only the user can decide which become atoms in the graph.

Modes

--daily (default)

A 3-second read before the user opens anything else. Three asks — surfaced from claim activity in the last 7 days (configurable via --scope):

  1. Connections (3) — non-obvious links between recent captures and older notes the user probably forgot about. Each link is one sentence: "[[claim-A]] connects to [[older-claim-B]] because ."
  2. Pattern (1) — one pattern across the last week's reading. What is your brain working on, even if you haven't said it explicitly?
  3. Question (1) — one question worth sitting with today. Not a task. A question.

Output: inbox/dream-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md.

--weekly

Deeper, Monday-morning ritual. 15-minute read. Four asks — surfaced from the last 30 days (configurable):

  1. Emerging thesis — what idea is the vault building toward without it having been stated explicitly? Look at the new claims, the new MOCs, the questions that recur.
  2. Contradictions — what has been saved recently that contradicts something believed before? confidence: contested claims are the obvious place to look; also flag claims whose contradicts: arrays are non-empty.
  3. Knowledge gaps — what is clearly not being read that should be? Look at the goals.md active threads vs. recent claim coverage. Where's the gap?
  4. One action — the single highest-leverage thing to do or think about this week. Not a task list. One sentence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 2d ago First seen · 182 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 3af42f600288

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dream is a skill published in the GitHub repository letrplB/second-brain (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,610 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 2026-08-31.

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