A command-line connection for managing Apple Notes on macOS, including notes stored through iCloud.

Use it to find notes, add or update notes in folders, keep information synced across Apple devices, and export notes as Markdown or HTML.

It lets an agent search, create, edit, organize, and export notes without requiring manual work in the Notes app.

apple-notes — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by MilkyWay008

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 MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG --skill apple-notes

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 595 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.

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00017	$0.00595
Opus 5	$0.00009	$0.00298
Sonnet 5	$0.00003	$0.00119
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00060

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1ba042cb17e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-notes 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to apple-notes — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

data/skills/apple/apple-notes/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Notes

Use memo to manage Apple Notes directly from the terminal. Notes sync across all Apple devices via iCloud.

Prerequisites

macOS with Notes.app
Install: brew tap antoniorodr/memo && brew install antoniorodr/memo/memo
Grant Automation access to Notes.app when prompted (System Settings → Privacy → Automation)

When to Use

User asks to create, view, or search Apple Notes
Saving information to Notes.app for cross-device access
Organizing notes into folders
Exporting notes to Markdown/HTML

When NOT to Use

Obsidian vault management → use the obsidian skill
Bear Notes → separate app (not supported here)
Quick agent-only notes → use the memory tool instead

Quick Reference

View Notes

memo notes                        # List all notes
memo notes -f "Folder Name"       # Filter by folder
memo notes -s "query"             # Search notes (fuzzy)

Create Notes

memo notes -a                     # Add a note (opens your $EDITOR)
memo notes -a -f "Folder Name"    # Add a note into a specific folder

-a/--add is a bare flag — it opens your $EDITOR to compose the note; it does not take a title argument. Use -f/--folder to target a folder. Set $EDITOR first (e.g. export EDITOR=vim).

Edit Notes

memo notes -e                     # Interactive selection to edit

Delete Notes

memo notes -d                     # Interactive selection to delete

Move Notes

memo notes -m                     # Move note to folder (interactive)

Export Notes

memo notes -ex                    # Export to HTML/Markdown

Limitations

Cannot edit notes containing images or attachments
Interactive prompts require terminal access (use pty=true if needed)
macOS only — requires Apple Notes.app

Rules

Prefer Apple Notes when user wants cross-device sync (iPhone/iPad/Mac)
Use the memory tool for agent-internal notes that don't need to sync
Use the obsidian skill for Markdown-native knowledge management

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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.

9d ago First seen · 95 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 1ba042cb17e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG (15 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 595 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to apple-notes, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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