ensure-neotoma

ensure-neotoma is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from markmhendrickson/neotoma. It costs 28 tokens per session (607 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup procedure for installing Neotoma, configuring its connection to an AI coding tool, and checking that the connection works.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks the installation, guides installation when needed, runs Neotoma setup for a selected tool, and verifies connectivity.
Why use it?
It removes manual setup guesswork and provides a prerequisite when other Neotoma memory procedures cannot connect.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It checks the installation, guides installation when needed, runs Neotoma setup for a selected tool, and verifies connectivity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markmhendrickson/neotoma/ensure-neotoma
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/neotoma --skill ensure-neotoma
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/neotoma

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 607 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: 2 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 29
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 81
    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.
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 $0.00028 $0.00607
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00303
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2a8b16f1db06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ensure-neotoma 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.

skills/ensure-neotoma/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ensure Neotoma

Meta skill that installs and configures Neotoma so other memory skills can run. Every remember-* skill references this as a prerequisite.

When to use

  • Before running any remember-* or store-data skill for the first time.
  • When the user says "install neotoma", "set up memory", or similar.
  • When another skill fails because Neotoma MCP is not connected.

Workflow

Phase 1: Check if Neotoma CLI is available

npx neotoma status --output json

If neotoma is not found or status reports installed: false:

  1. Guide installation:
    npm install -g neotoma
    
  2. Verify the install succeeded:
    neotoma --version
    

Phase 2: Run setup

Run the composite setup command to configure MCP, CLI instructions, hooks, permissions, and skills for the current harness:

neotoma setup --yes

If the user wants to target a specific harness, pass --tool:

neotoma setup --tool cursor --yes
neotoma setup --tool claude-code --yes
neotoma setup --tool codex --yes

Review the setup report. Every step should show ok: true. If any step failed, report the failure reason and suggest remediation.

Phase 3: Verify MCP connectivity

Use the Neotoma MCP get_session_identity tool to confirm the MCP connection is live:

  • If the tool is available and returns a response, Neotoma is configured.
  • Check attribution.tiersoftware or hardware means verified attribution; unverified_client is functional but unverified.
  • If the MCP tool is not available, check the harness MCP config file and guide the user through manual configuration.

Phase 4: Confirm readiness

Report the result:

  • Neotoma version installed
  • Harness detected and configured
  • MCP connectivity status
  • Attribution tier

State that the user can now run any remember-* skill or store-data / query-memory.

Do not

  • Skip verification — always confirm MCP connectivity before declaring success.
  • Assume the user has Node.js installed — check and guide if npm is not found.
  • Modify harness configuration files directly — use neotoma setup which handles all harness-specific logic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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 · 84 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 2a8b16f1db06

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ensure-neotoma is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/neotoma (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 607 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 2026-09-03.

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