set-note-description

set-note-description is a skill for Claude Code from nweii/agent-stuff. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,803 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A note-editing skill that creates or updates a description field in a note’s YAML frontmatter. It chooses a short summary style or a reference-information style based on the note’s content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding discoverability descriptions to daily logs, meeting notes, journals, guides, documentation, checklists, and other Markdown notes.
Why use it?
It makes notes easier to find without requiring you to write descriptions by hand.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the obsidian-tools plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Adding discoverability descriptions to daily logs, meeting notes, journals, guides, documentation, checklists, and other Markdown notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nweii/agent-stuff/set-note-description
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 nweii/agent-stuff --skill set-note-description
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nweii/agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,803 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 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 $0.00043 $0.01803
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00721
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00180

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0942054fc27a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

set-note-description 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 5d 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.

plugins/obsidian-tools/skills/set-note-description/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Summarize frontmatter

Generate a description property for the requested notes and write it to each note’s YAML frontmatter.

Read the target vault's instructions first. For a periodic note, prefer the vault's specific rollup workflow when it covers the requested scale. For a parent period synthesized from child notes, use periodic-rollup if available. Use this skill for a note's own content, or as a fallback when no more specific workflow is available.

If no note is specified, ask which note to summarize before proceeding.


Act as a markdown file analysis assistant. Read the note and generate a description for discoverability. Either follow any specified mode or intelligently select based on content type.

Mode selection

If the user specifies a mode, use it. Otherwise, select based on content type:

Use Summary mode for

  • Ephemeral content: daily logs, weekly rollups, journal entries, periodic notes
  • Time-bound artifacts: meeting notes, event recaps, trip logs
  • Exploratory thinking: musings, brainstorms, working-through-problems
  • Personal reflections: emotional processing, retrospectives, lessons learned

These are documents where the insights or events are the value—you likely won't re-read the whole thing, you need the crystallized takeaway or memory anchor.

Use Meta mode for

  • Reference material: guides, how-tos, documentation, templates
  • Evergreen resources: processes, checklists, policies, standards
  • Knowledge base entries: concept explanations, topic overviews
  • Curated collections: link indexes, reading lists, resource compilations
  • Project artifacts: specs, designs, briefs (the document serves a structural purpose)

These are documents you retrieve by need—you're searching for something that solves a problem or answers a question, not recalling what you concluded.

Evaluating the primary intent

Evaluate what the document fundamentally is (rather than looking at individual sentences to infer purpose). If signals conflict, default to the document's primary purpose:

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 5d ago Changed · -1 lines 0942054fc27a
  2. 26d ago Changed · -9 lines · +1 tokens per session 84eadf840278
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 169 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 40d77b193929

Subscribe to this mod's changes

set-note-description is a skill published in the GitHub repository nweii/agent-stuff (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,803 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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