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draft-comparative-neotoma-post is a skill for Claude Code from markmhendrickson/ateles. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,201 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing a post that compares a product or API's memory with a truth layer. A truth layer is a durable, authoritative record used to check whether remembered information is accurate and current.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or extend a Neotoma post comparing a memory feature or API with a truth layer, such as an AI assistant's memory system.
Why use it?
It explains the difference between convenient remembered context and a source of record, helping readers understand when each is appropriate. The post follows the established format for this comparison series.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

This is markmhendrickson/ateles's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ateles itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ateles configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to markmhendrickson/ateles. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markmhendrickson/ateles/main/.claude/skills/draft-comparative-neotoma-post/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/ateles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,201 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 $0.00076 $0.01201
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00120

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7b5240d3c8f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

draft-comparative-neotoma-post 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/draft-comparative-neotoma-post/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Draft Comparative Neotoma Post

Draft a post in the memory & truth-layer series: it compares a specific product or API's memory (e.g. Claude Memory Tool, OpenAI API, ChatGPT Memory, Claude app Memory) to a truth layer and explains when each fits. The format is flexible so posts stay consistent without sounding cookie-cutter.

Source of truth for format

Always use the format defined in the posts README. Before drafting or editing, read:

execution/website/markmhendrickson/react-app/src/content/posts/README.md — section "Format: memory & truth-layer series".

That section defines the recurring beats and how to avoid cookie-cutter repetition. Do not duplicate the full format here; the README is the single source of truth.

When to use this skill

  • User asks to draft a new post comparing [Product/API] memory to a truth layer (e.g. "draft a memory series post for Gemini").
  • User asks to edit or extend an existing comparative Neotoma post and you need the series format in context.
  • User says "comparative neotoma post", "memory series post", or "truth layer comparison post" in the context of writing.

Workflow

  1. Resolve slug and scope

    • If user named a product/API (e.g. Gemini, OpenAI API, ChatGPT), derive a slug (e.g. gemini-memory-and-truth-layer, openai-api-memory-and-truth-layer). Use lowercase, hyphens, no special characters.
    • If editing an existing draft, use its slug from execution/website/markmhendrickson/react-app/src/content/posts/drafts/.
  2. Load format

    • Read the README section "Format: memory & truth-layer series" (recurring beats, how to avoid cookie-cutter).
    • Apply it to the specific product/API: choose section titles that fit (e.g. "What's missing" vs "Where it falls short"), include optional sections (e.g. "How configuration works" for developer posts, comparison table when it adds clarity).
  3. Draft the post

    • Create or edit execution/website/markmhendrickson/react-app/src/content/posts/drafts/{slug}.md.
    • Include YAML frontmatter: title, excerpt.
    • Follow the beats: opening (what it is + scope), what it is, where it excels, where it falls short, when a truth layer makes sense, optional config/FAQ, what I'm building (Neotoma paragraph).
    • Link to /posts/truth-layer-agent-memory and to other series posts where relevant (e.g. Claude developer post, ChatGPT Memory post).
    • Keep voice consistent; use product-specific examples and avoid filler phrases repeated verbatim.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 6d ago First seen · 73 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 7b5240d3c8f1

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draft-comparative-neotoma-post is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/ateles (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,201 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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