spine-capture

spine-capture is a skill for Claude Code from Nodewarrior/spine. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,536 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation tool for saving completed work as a note in a Spine Architecture vault, a structured Obsidian folder for project knowledge. It records fixes, features, designs, plans, and decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture a bug fix, new feature, architecture design, implementation plan, or decision, either individually or in a batch.
Why use it?
It prevents important implementation details and reasoning from being lost after the work is finished.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the spine plugin — 7 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to capture a bug fix, new feature, architecture design, implementation plan, or decision, either individually or in a batch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nodewarrior/spine/spine-capture
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 Nodewarrior/spine --skill spine-capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nodewarrior/spine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,536 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: 1 finding, 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 Rogue Agent · line 155
    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 $0.00054 $0.02536
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01268
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00254

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6dd64ada353a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spine-capture 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.

skills/spine-capture/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spine Capture — Document Work to Obsidian Vault

Capture completed work into the Spine Architecture vault.

Vault Path Resolution

Resolve the vault path using this config chain:

  1. $SPINE_VAULT_PATH environment variable
  2. ~/.spine/config.json → read the vaultPath field
  3. Default: ~/Documents/SpineVault/

If the vault doesn't exist, tell the user to run /spine-init first.

Doc Types and Prefixes

Prefix Tag When to use
Fix - {description} type/fix Bug fix — include root cause and code snippets
Feature - {description} type/feature New functionality
Architecture - {description} type/architecture Design doc, API structure, data flow
Plan - {description} type/plan Implementation plan
Decision - {description} type/decision Decision record with context and trade-offs

Date prefixes: Add YYYY-MM-DD prefix on Fix and Feature docs only. No date prefix on Architecture, Plan, or Decision docs.

Step 1: Determine What to Capture

If $ARGUMENTS is provided, use that as the description. Otherwise:

  1. Run git log --oneline -10 and git diff main...HEAD --stat to see recent work
  2. Read any recently modified source files to understand the change
  3. Ask the user: "What type of doc is this?" (fix / feature / architecture / plan / decision) — unless obvious from context

Step 2: Determine Repo and Feature

  1. Repo: Detect from the git remote:

    basename "$(git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null)" .git
    

    Fall back to the current directory name if no git remote.

  2. Feature: Read existing spine notes at {vault}/{repo}/ to find matching features. Match by:

    • File paths changed (which feature folder do they map to?)
    • Component names, module names
    • If no match, ask the user: "This looks like a new feature area. What should I call it?"
    • For new features, create the folder and spine note

Step 3: Draft the Obsidian Doc

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 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. 9d ago First seen · 251 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 6dd64ada353a

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spine-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nodewarrior/spine (22 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,536 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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