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.
npx skills add OctopusGarage/alcove --skill alcove-capturegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OctopusGarage/alcoveWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-capture)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-capture"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-capture/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-capture"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-capture.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00038 | $0.00963 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00481 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00193 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00096 |
Grade A, and why
alcove-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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Alcove Capture
This skill keeps the managed knowledge capture workflow while routing all knowledge behavior through Alcove and all capture behavior through Clipsmith. Clipsmith project page: https://octopusgarage.github.io/clipsmith/
Clipsmith is the default capture adapter, not a hard dependency of Alcove.
Other collectors may be used when they write a compatible bundle or folder into
this knowledge base's inbox/<platform>/<capture-id>/ path.
Alcove reads Clipsmith capture.json.content_files first, so OCR text files
declared by Clipsmith are reviewable without a separate Alcove-side OCR step.
Capture Links
If the user sends a supported social-media link, capture the complete post into inbox: full post content, metadata, and all available images/videos. A bare supported social-media link is sufficient authorization for this initial capture; do not ask for additional confirmation. For other downloadable web links, default to capturing the complete article or page into inbox. Do not process unrelated existing inbox items just because a new link was captured.
The captured inbox item must be a complete local bundle. Keep bundle files at
the item root and downloaded media under assets/. If the platform is
unsupported, login is required, or any content cannot be downloaded, report
that explicitly and do not claim the capture is complete.
Expected capture flow:
clipsmith providers --json
clipsmith capture start "<url>" --state-dir /tmp/clipsmith-state
clipsmith validate-bundle "<bundle_dir>" --json
clipsmith capture finalize "<job_id_or_job_path>" "<bundle_dir>" --state-dir /tmp/clipsmith-state
clipsmith sink inbox "<bundle_dir>" . --json
Run the sink command from the managed KB root. If the agent is working from a
different directory, replace . with that KB workspace path.
Platform expectations:
- XiaoHongShu:
xhslink.comorxiaohongshu.com/explore/->inbox/xhs/ - X/Twitter:
x.com/ortwitter.com/->inbox/x/ - WeChat:
mp.weixin.qq.comorweixin.qq.com->inbox/wechat/ - Generic web: normal article URLs ->
inbox/web/
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 130 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 196b434e2d0b
alcove-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository OctopusGarage/alcove (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 963 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.
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