alcove-hub

alcove-hub is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OctopusGarage/alcove. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for Alcove Hub, a workspace for storing and finding personal knowledge, links, tasks, prompts, projects, and connected data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route knowledge articles, links, reminders, reusable prompts, project paths, external folders, and imported data to the appropriate Alcove location.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right place to save or search information, especially when a request could fit more than one type of record.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to route knowledge articles, links, reminders, reusable prompts, project paths, external folders, and imported data to the appropriate Alcove location.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-hub
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 OctopusGarage/alcove --skill alcove-hub
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OctopusGarage/alcove

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,097 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 $0.00036 $0.03097
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01548
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00619
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00310

Measured 11d ago against content hash 407f1e8aa782, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alcove-hub 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.

src/alcove/profile_templates/hub/skills/alcove-hub/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alcove Hub

This is the high-level router for Alcove. Decide the storage target before writing.

Intent Routing

  • knowledge article, copied source, discussion note, archive: managed KB inbox/knowledge.
  • ambiguous record, remember, save this: ask one clarifying question unless the target is obvious.
  • tiny durable reference, command, preference, shortcut: pin --kind regular.
  • collection wording such as 收藏, 常用收藏, or 置顶收藏: search existing pins first; if a matching collection pin such as 常用收藏 exists, update that existing collection pin instead of only creating a separate pin.
  • when saving a link with user-provided purpose, use case, or why-it-matters context, preserve that context in the target pin; do not save only the bare URL.
  • future practice or deeper-study item that should stay visible: pin --kind todo.
  • reusable instruction or agent prompt: prompt.
  • local repo/path shortcut: project.
  • todo, reminder, routine, follow-up: task or idea.
  • external folder or historical repo to search read-only: mount.
  • exported/protocol data source such as Apple Notes or GitHub Stars: connector.
  • blog monitoring, scheduled article checks, failure alerts, or phrases such as 监控博客更新 / 检查博客文章有没有更新: blog monitor.
  • information radar, daily briefing, 技术雷达, 新闻雷达, 股票雷达, 体育资讯: radar.
  • business-scoped conversation such as 家庭 workspace, 工作 workspace, travel workspace, or 场景工作区: use workspace to find or enter that lightweight business workspace.
  • Alcove feature work, maintenance, refactoring, docs alignment, tests, or phrases such as 优化 Alcove / 新增功能 / 修这个项目: route to the registered project/worktree, then apply that project's engineering rules. Do not save the request as a knowledge note unless the user explicitly asks for a note.

Project Development Protocol

  • Most Alcove development requests still start in the Hub. Before changing code, identify the target project and switch to its project entry so AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, hooks, and local skills are in scope.
  • For each user-facing change, run an entry-mode impact check: Hub workspace, managed-KB workspace, global MCP/command hints, CLI, local service/dashboard, docs, smoke, and AI eval.
  • Update alcove-hub when the feature changes how users should ask for, trigger, review, or save data from the Hub. Update managed-KB skills only for KB-local capture/inbox/OKF workflows. Keep global MCP lightweight unless a wider toolset is explicitly intended.
  • If no entry change is needed, say why in the completion summary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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. 11d ago First seen · 207 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 407f1e8aa782

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alcove-hub is a skill published in the GitHub repository OctopusGarage/alcove (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,097 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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