clip

clip is a skill for Claude Code from mayank-io/mstack. It costs 88 tokens per session (4,999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A note-saving skill that takes a web address or local file and routes it to the appropriate importer, such as one for YouTube videos, social posts, PDFs, or web pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to save a URL or local document into a notes collection, including videos, posts, public Notion pages, papers, PDFs, and articles.
Why use it?
It removes the need to choose a different capture method and note format for every kind of source.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; built for gstack.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the notes plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want to save a URL or local document into a notes collection, including videos, posts, public Notion pages, papers, PDFs, and articles.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add mayank-io/mstack
Claude Code
/plugin install notes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install notes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for clip

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mayank-io/mstack/clip/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mayank-io/mstack/clip)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for clip

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mayank-io/mstack/clip"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mayank-io/mstack/clip.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,999 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00088 $0.04999
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.02000
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01000
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00500

Measured 2d ago against content hash 402d3d2c79de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clip scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/attachments.py, tests/test_attachments.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| PDF (any host, incl. Drive/Dropbox) | `curl` → `notes:save-local-file` | — |
plugins/notes/skills/clip/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clip

Route a URL to the correct extraction skill and note-writer. This skill is a router. It does not format notes and does not know vault conventions — the downstream skill owns that.

Input

The user provided: $ARGUMENTS — a URL, optionally followed by extra instructions (e.g. "tag it to project X", "capture with the edge-idea tag"). Pass extra instructions through to the downstream skill and honour them after it returns.

Step 1 — Identify the source

Match on the URL's host and path.

Source Fetch with Template
youtube.com, youtu.be fetch:youtube-download youtube.md (+ channel override)
x.com, twitter.com fetch:x-post x.md
linkedin.com fetch:linkedin-post linkedin.md
*.notion.site, notion.so fetch:notion-public-site notion.md
scribd.com fetch:scribd-document article.md
alphaxiv.org, arxiv.org fetch:alphaxiv-paper paper.md
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc fetch:pubmed-nlm paper.md
instagram.com fetch:ig-post article.md
PDF (any host, incl. Drive/Dropbox) curl → notes:save-local-file —
anything else fetch:blog-post article.md

The fallback goes to fetch:blog-post, not obsidian:defuddle. blog-post uses Defuddle internally and recovers the lazy-loaded images Defuddle drops, digitizes embedded Vedic charts via fetch:vedic-chart, and emits the same OUTPUT_DIR: contract as every other route. Routing straight to defuddle skips all of that and reaches outside this marketplace for a capability we already own.

Every route is the same six steps. There is no per-source skill, and there should never be one — what varies between sources is output shape, and shape lives in templates/.

Templates live at the plugin root — ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/ — not beside this skill. There is no skills/clip/templates/; a path resolved relative to this file finds nothing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago Changed · +27 lines 402d3d2c79de
  2. 22d ago Changed · +2 lines de7d735d86c4
  3. 28d ago Changed · +7 lines 0dec1a581065
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +23 lines 80272446ae09
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 1ee196ee7ce8
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +26 lines 079e5a659328
  7. 2mo ago First seen · 161 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A d7a98abc4038

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clip is a skill published in the GitHub repository mayank-io/mstack (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 4,999 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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