capture

capture is a skill for Claude Code from ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit. It costs 21 tokens per session (873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided way to record morning intentions or evening reflections as a structured daily thought record. It keeps your original words along with themes and connections drawn from the conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for morning planning, evening reflection, recording ideas, and tracking recurring themes in your thoughts.
Why use it?
It gives unstructured thoughts a consistent place and format, making it easier to review plans, experiences, lessons, and ideas later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the guide plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for morning planning, evening reflection, recording ideas, and tracking recurring themes in your thoughts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/capture
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 ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit --skill capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install guide, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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 capture

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 873 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00021 $0.00873
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00349
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00087

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 3ea3c4623bbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2mo 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/guide/skills/capture/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/guide:capture — Daily Thought Capture

Capture what's on your mind — morning intentions or evening reflections.

A standalone skill for recording the user's thoughts, ideas, and reflections. Works independently — no pipeline dependency required.

How It Works

This skill captures the user's raw thoughts through gentle conversation, preserving the verbatim transcript alongside structured themes and connections.

AM vs PM Mode

The skill operates in two modes:

  • AM (morning) — Focus on intentions, energy, and what's ahead. Ask about plans, priorities, and what's on their mind for the day. Auto-detect if the current time is before noon.
  • PM (evening) — Focus on reflections, lessons, and what happened. Ask about wins, challenges, and what they learned. Auto-detect if the current time is after noon.

If the user doesn't specify AM or PM, auto-detect based on the current time of day (before noon = AM, after noon = PM).

Steps

  1. Read config from content/config.yaml for output.captures_dir (fall back to content/captures/ as default if config is missing)
  2. Greet the user with a gentle prompt appropriate to the time of day
  3. Listen and explore — use gentle follow-up prompts to help the user go deeper:
    • "What's behind that?"
    • "How does that connect to what you've been thinking about?"
    • "What would make today feel like a win?"
    • "Is there something you're avoiding?"
  4. Preserve the raw transcript — keep the user's exact words, don't just summarize
  5. Extract themes and connections to previous captures or ongoing threads
  6. Save to YYYY-MM-DD-am.md or YYYY-MM-DD-pm.md in the captures directory

Output Format

---
date: YYYY-MM-DD
mode: am|pm
themes: [theme1, theme2]
connections: [related captures or thoughts]
---

## Raw Capture

(Verbatim transcript of the conversation)

## Themes

- Theme 1: brief description
- Theme 2: brief description

## Connections

- Links to previous captures or thoughts that relate

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 2mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 3ea3c4623bbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 873 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 2026-08-30.

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