clip

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 CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mayank-io/mstack/clip
Any agent
npx skills add mayank-io/mstack --skill clip
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mayank-io/mstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,529 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00088 $0.02529
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01264
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00253

Measured yesterday against content hash d7a98abc4038, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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 · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 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-transcript 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
PDF (any host, incl. Drive/Dropbox) curlnotes: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/.

1. route on host        ──▶  fetch:<source>          (curl, for PDF)
2. read its OUTPUT_FILE: / OUTPUT_DIR: final line     — Step 2
3. select templates/<source>.md, and templates/channels/<name>.md if one matches
4. if the content is a transcript  ──▶  notes:clean-transcript
5. fill the template
6. notes:create                     (or notes:save-local-file, for PDF)

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. yesterday 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 (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,529 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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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