brain-groundskeeper

brain-groundskeeper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Obelyth/cortex. It costs 37 tokens per session (766 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A nightly maintenance routine for a personal knowledge base called a brain. It checks the brain's health, incorporates the day's log into project pages, checks facts for drift, reviews proposed additions and leaves a summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for recurring review and cleanup of daily logs, project pages, facts and pending knowledge-base proposals.
Why use it?
It helps keep project notes current and consistent over time. The supplied information does not describe the storage system or exact maintenance commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it for recurring review and cleanup of daily logs, project pages, facts and pending knowledge-base proposals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/obelyth/cortex/groundskeeper
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 Obelyth/cortex --skill groundskeeper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Obelyth/cortex

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.

agentmods badge for brain-groundskeeper

README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 766 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 unknown 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 $0.00037 $0.00766
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00306
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 16d ago against content hash 750e5bac099f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brain-groundskeeper 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 16d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (healthcheck.sh), 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.

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.

ops/groundskeeper/SKILL.md · 59 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 16d ago Changed 750e5bac099f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 1fb88afccd12

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brain-groundskeeper is a skill published in the GitHub repository Obelyth/cortex (23 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 766 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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