init

A setup skill for creating a new second-brain vault, meaning an organized personal knowledge workspace, in either guided or quick mode.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold a research or personal vault through a short onboarding conversation, a preset command, an optional domain, and an optional location.
Why use it?
It gives a new vault a consistent starting structure and refuses to overwrite a non-empty destination.

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/letrplb/second-brain/init
Any agent
npx skills add letrplB/second-brain --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/letrplB/second-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,079 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 $0.00036 $0.03079
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01540
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00308

Measured yesterday against content hash 116632906d8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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 yesterday.

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/init/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/init

Intent. Lay down a new vault. Either by talking with the user (guided mode) or by accepting preset + domain on the command line (quick mode). Same scaffolding step at the end; the modes only differ in how the placeholders get filled and how the location is chosen.

Refuses to overwrite. If the resolved target directory already exists and is non-empty, abort with a clear error.

Modes

Guided (default — no arguments)

A focused conversation: ~7 questions, a review-and-confirm step, then scaffold. Use this when starting a new vault from scratch and you want it to fit your work.

Quick (preset specified)

/init research [domain] [--at <path>] or /init personal [--at <path>]. Scaffolds immediately with sensible defaults; you edit afterwards. Use this when you know what you want, or when you're scripting setup.

A future hybrid preset is reserved but not yet shipped.


Resolving where the vault lives

This is the same logic in both modes — the difference is whether the user is asked or whether a default is taken silently.

The model has access to the user's current working directory (the directory Claude Code was invoked from). Call this $CWD.

Default proposal: $CWD/vault/.

Path resolution rules:

  • Absolute paths used as-is (e.g. /Users/bastian/notes/research-vault/).
  • ~/... expanded to home.
  • Anything else treated as relative to $CWD.

Refusal cases (both modes — abort and explain):

  • The resolved path equals the plugin directory itself (the directory containing this init/SKILL.md's grandparent). Vaults must not nest inside the plugin source.
  • The resolved path exists and is non-empty.
  • The resolved path is a parent of $CWD (likely a slip; ask user to confirm explicitly).

Guided mode behaviour

The model conducts a focused interview. Each question shapes a specific part of the generated vault. After the answers are in, the model presents a file plan and asks for confirmation before any disk write.

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 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. yesterday First seen · 236 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 116632906d8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository letrplB/second-brain (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,079 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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