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-kbgit 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-kb)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-kb"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-kb/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-kb"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octopusgarage/alcove/alcove-kb.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 | $0.00031 | $0.00620 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00310 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00124 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00062 |
Grade A, and why
alcove-kb 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 — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Alcove Managed KB
Default to this KB for inbox/archive/current-KB wording. Use Alcove Home-wide search for personal knowledge wording.
Search Routing
当前知识库,这个知识库,inbox,archive, or当前目录means this managed KB.本地个人知识库,个人知识系统,全部资料,OKF,知识数据,汇总总结,查一下, or相关资料means Alcove Home-wide search across managed KBs, pins, tasks, prompts, projects, mounts, and connectors unless the user asks to narrow scope.- Use Alcove MCP/CLI search as candidate discovery. Omit
workspacefor Home-wide search; pass this workspace only for explicit current-KB scope. - Search results are leads, not final truth. For broad, ambiguous, cross-topic, or low-confidence questions, continue with AI-led investigation over OKF indexes, domain/topic/tag pages, source refs, connector fetch refs, mount refs, archive provenance, and local files as useful.
- Do not route generic
本地知识库wording to unrelated global or project-specific tools unless the user explicitly names that tool.
Write Routing
- Use Alcove CLI/MCP commands for durable writes: inbox actions, OKF notes, revisions, pins, tasks, prompts, projects, mounts, connectors, links, refreshes, and exports.
- Direct file edits are repair fallbacks only. Run
alcove validateor the nearest refresh/scan/rebuild command afterward. - Mounted repository indexes are policy-filtered knowledge indexes. Use mount refs for README/docs/notes evidence; use
rgor direct source reads for code-specific questions.
Fallback Routing Without Skills
| Intent | Read path | Governed write path |
|---|---|---|
| Broad personal knowledge question | alcove search "query" --json, then inspect returned OKF/source/mount/connector refs |
none |
| Current KB question | alcove search "query" --json from this workspace |
none |
| Inbox review | alcove inbox peek --json; read full item before summarizing if truncated |
archive/note/todo/delete only after explicit confirmation |
| Save copied article or discussion note | search first for duplicates | alcove inbox manual-add ... or alcove knowledge ... |
| Revise existing OKF note | inspect the target OKF path first | alcove knowledge revise ..., then alcove validate --json |
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 · 44 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A fc78330acc42
alcove-kb is a skill published in the GitHub repository OctopusGarage/alcove (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 620 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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