m1nd-first

m1nd-first is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from maxkle1nz/m1nd. It costs 78 tokens per session (11,701 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-investigation method that makes an `m1nd` knowledge graph the first place to look for context, prior work, and likely next steps. A repository is the project's files and history; a knowledge graph stores related information and connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when investigating code, searching for an implementation, reviewing changes, following specifications or documentation, or preparing a risky code change. It also defines what to do when no `m1nd` knowledge graph exists.
Why use it?
It helps avoid starting investigations with broad file searches when the repository's stored context can narrow the work first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: SubagentStop hook event, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/mcp_agent_smoke.py --repo . --handshake-only --json.

Good fit Use it when investigating code, searching for an implementation, reviewing changes, following specifications or documentation, or preparing a risky code change. It also defines what to do when no m1nd knowledge graph exists.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxkle1nz/m1nd
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maxkle1nz/m1nd/m1nd-first

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,701 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 Rogue Agent · line 553
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 99
    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.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 513
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00078 $0.11701
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.05851
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.02340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.01170

Measured 8d ago against content hash 53f12c6dcc11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

m1nd-first 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 8d 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/m1nd-first/SKILL.md · 734 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 734 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

m1nd-first

This is a doctrine, not a manual.

Rules

  • Start with m1nd. In an MCP session, the front door is one call: north(task) — it composes trust, task context, prior cross-session memory, a sufficiency signal, one next_move, and honest_gaps into a single packet before you read or edit anything. If it returns needs_ingest (empty/unbound graph), do not call generic ingest: that mutation surface is policy-disabled. Say the door out loud instead — a repo with no brain gets one from the HUMAN's one-time ceremony, m1nd init --birth <repo>: offer that command and stop, then re-north only after the human has run it. Meanwhile use the isolated m1nd agent ... --repo CLI path for investigation, or the exact authority flow plus external_mutation_service for a governed existing-brain mutation.
  • Before rg, shell globbing, or manual file reads, m1nd answers or narrows FIRST — that is the default, not a question you ask only when convenient. The one exception is the Skip Conditions below (exact file+lines already known, or pure compiler/runtime truth); everything else earns a north/seek/impact pass first.
  • Prefer the cheapest m1nd surface that preserves truth:
    • exact text -> search
    • path pattern -> glob
    • known purpose, unknown location -> seek
    • topic, subsystem, or connected neighborhood -> activate
    • unfamiliar repo orientation -> north (or audit when you only want the structural map)
    • stacktrace or runtime error text -> trace
  • For docs/specs/knowledge, do not advertise generic ingest adapters while the mutation route is policy-disabled. Read the supplied artifacts directly or use an owner-internal indexing path; label graph ingestion NOT_AVAILABLE unless an exact typed consumer and authority receipt are present.
  • Before risky edits or change reviews, pass through impact, validate_plan, and usually surgical_context_v2.
  • Keep agent_id stable across one investigation unless intentionally splitting roles.

Read the full file on GitHub · 734 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. 8d ago First seen · 734 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 53f12c6dcc11

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m1nd-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxkle1nz/m1nd (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 11,701 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 2026-08-30.

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