triage-inbox

triage-inbox is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from owrede/vault-memory. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,769 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for sorting recently created notes from an inbox folder or inbox-like state. It proposes where each note belongs and can add tags, links, and missing frontmatter after confirmation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing new notes one by one, choosing target folders, adding tags, linking related notes, and filling in note metadata.
Why use it?
It helps turn rough notes with little structure into organized, connected notes without moving or editing them automatically.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Reviewing new notes one by one, choosing target folders, adding tags, linking…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owrede/vault-memory/triage-inbox
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 owrede/vault-memory --skill triage-inbox
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owrede/vault-memory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,769 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 $0.00107 $0.01769
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00885
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00177

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2d62c73734ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage-inbox 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 6d 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.

skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/triage-inbox — Process Inbox-Stage Notes

A guided workflow that helps you take messy, freshly-captured notes and integrate them into your vault's structure. Identifies "inbox" notes via heuristics OR explicit folder, and for each one proposes a triage action with a default — you accept, modify, or skip.

When to invoke

  • User runs /triage-inbox (primary)
  • User says "triage", "process inbox", "Inbox aufräumen", "neue Notes durchgehen", "file these new notes", "wo soll diese Note hin"
  • After a capture-burst (e.g., importing voice memos, web clippings, meeting transcripts)

Requirements

  • mcp__vault-memory__* tools available
  • Vault registered with write_enabled: true (the skill writes — refuses otherwise)
  • Vault recently indexed (warn if indexed_at > 24h old)

Inbox detection

The skill identifies "inbox" candidates by combining BOTH paths — the user can override at invocation:

Path A — explicit folder (preferred when available)

If the user specifies --folder=<path> OR the vault config has an inbox_folder convention, use query_frontmatter({where: {path: {$exists: true}}, limit: 1000}) and client-side-filter to notes whose path starts with that folder prefix.

Path B — heuristic (fallback)

Pull recent_notes({limit: 50, since: <now - 14 days>}) then keep notes that pass ALL of:

  1. Sparse frontmatter: ≤1 frontmatter key (or none at all)
  2. Few tags: 0 or 1 tag
  3. Short body: word_count < 300
  4. No wikilinks out: optional — list_forward_links({vault, path}).length === 0

This catches the typical "captured-quickly-never-developed" pattern.

Filter mode

Default: heuristic if no folder specified. Show counts for both ("found 14 by heuristic, 22 in Inbox/") and let the user pick.

Workflow

Phase 1 — Detect

Show:

## Inbox candidates: <N>

Heuristic (last 14 days, sparse frontmatter, <300 words): <n_h>
Folder `Inbox/`: <n_f>

Process: [h]euristic / [f]older / [b]oth / [c]ustom-folder / [n]o-thanks

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 6d ago First seen · 154 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 2d62c73734ff

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triage-inbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository owrede/vault-memory (0 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,769 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.