neotoma-learn

neotoma-learn is a skill for Claude Code from markmhendrickson/ateles. It costs 29 tokens per session (4,781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development skill for improving Neotoma MCP instructions, where Neotoma is a system for storing and retrieving information for agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for updating Neotoma instructions and related workspace rules after observed storage or retrieval problems, including issues with attachments and cache regeneration.
Why use it?
It addresses failures such as missing stored data, missing provenance, incorrect retrieval queries, or ignored retrieved context.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for updating Neotoma instructions and related workspace rules after observed storage or retrieval problems, including issues with attachments and cache regeneration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markmhendrickson/ateles/neotoma-learn
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.

Any agent
npx skills add markmhendrickson/ateles --skill neotoma-learn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/ateles

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,781 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 103
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 77
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • low Excessive Agency · line 41
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00029 $0.04781
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02390
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00956
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00478

Measured 7d ago against content hash d311b06d3db1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

neotoma-learn 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 7d 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/neotoma-learn/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

neotoma-learn

Purpose

Define how to update the Neotoma MCP instructions file so agents both store and retrieve data correctly with Neotoma per observed failures or scenarios. Storage gaps (missed same-turn persistence, missing provenance, missed attachments) and retrieval gaps (skipped bounded retrieval, wrong query shape, ignored retrieved context, count/recency mis-queries) are equally in scope.

The skill also audits compliance with other Neotoma-related workspace rules in this repo (for example the consolidated always-on harness in neotoma_harness.mdc, the skills-source-of-truth and stub-fetch contract in skills_neotoma_proactive_fetch, the post-edit cache regeneration contract in post_updates_neotoma_cache, etc.). When a rule was not followed, apply the fix in the correct location per the durable-enhancement ladder — usually by strengthening the Neotoma MCP instructions, but sometimes by strengthening the workspace rule file itself.

Scope

Applies when the user invokes /neotoma_learn in this repository. Target file is the sibling Neotoma repo instructions document.

When invoked (optionally with a scenario, report path, or failure description), follow the workflow below. When no scenario is provided, the default behavior is to interrogate the most recent conversational turn to determine whether the Neotoma MCP was used as expected, and apply a fix only if a gap is identified.

When to use

Use when the user wants Neotoma MCP instructions strengthened so agents store and retrieve data correctly — for example same-turn storage when pulling data from other MCPs, a missed bounded retrieval at turn start, an answer that ignored relevant retrieved context, or a specific failure observed in chat.

Target files

Primary target (Neotoma MCP instructions, most gaps land here):

  • Path: ../neotoma/docs/developer/mcp/instructions.md (relative to ateles repo root). Resolve absolute path if needed.
  • Constraint: edit only within the first fenced code block in that file. Do not change markdown structure (headers, related docs, closing fence). Do not edit neotoma/src/server.ts fallback array.

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 7d ago First seen · 178 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A d311b06d3db1

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neotoma-learn is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/ateles (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 4,781 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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