brainlift-writer

brainlift-writer is a skill for Codex from PSkinnerTech/brainlift-writer-skill. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,049 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating BrainLifts, structured knowledge documents for giving useful context to AI systems. It organizes facts, explanations, insights, and clearly argued viewpoints around a focused question or purpose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft, revise, or evaluate BrainLifts, including their scope, knowledge hierarchy, insights, and evidence-based points of view.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered research and notes into reusable context that an AI can understand and apply consistently.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to draft, revise, or evaluate BrainLifts, including their scope, knowledge hierarchy, insights, and evidence-based points of view.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pskinnertech/brainlift-writer-skill/brainlift-writer
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 PSkinnerTech/brainlift-writer-skill --skill brainlift-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PSkinnerTech/brainlift-writer-skill

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,049 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 $0.00098 $0.01049
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00524
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00105

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5352405dac9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brainlift-writer 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.

brainlift-writer/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BrainLift Writer

Overview

Create BrainLifts as portable context documents for any AI model. Treat a BrainLift as a structured record of human thinking: raw knowledge becomes summaries, summaries become insights, and insights become strong, defensible points of view.

Read references/brainlift-template.md when drafting a full BrainLift from scratch, converting a large note dump, or auditing section-level completeness.

Core Workflow

  1. Establish the purpose.

    • Write one concise North Star that names the central question, mission, or belief.
    • Add In Scope and Out of Scope boundaries to prevent drift.
    • Keep the BrainLift focused on what the author wants to understand, decide, teach, or repeatedly hand to AI.
  2. Build the foundation before forcing conclusions.

    • Extract DOK 1 facts from sources as objective claims.
    • Summarize those facts into DOK 2 knowledge using the author's own words.
    • Group knowledge into a hierarchy of categories, subcategories, and sources.
  3. Synthesize DOK 3 insights.

    • Turn organized knowledge into original conclusions, patterns, tensions, or connections.
    • Make each insight a complete thought, not a source summary.
    • Group insights thematically so they can support higher-level arguments.
  4. Form DOK 4 spiky points of view.

    • State each SPOV as a strong, clear assertion.
    • Defend it by combining multiple DOK 3 insights, especially from different sources or domains.
    • Explain implications, tradeoffs, and why the stance is not a generic AI-generated take.
  5. Add experts.

    • Include the people, labs, companies, books, papers, or communities the author should keep following.
    • For each expert, capture who they are, what they focus on, why they matter to this BrainLift, and where to find their work.
  6. Assemble in BrainLift order.

    • Owners
    • Purpose
    • In Scope
    • Out of Scope
    • DOK 4: Spiky Points of View
    • Experts
    • DOK 3: Insights
    • DOK 2: Knowledge Tree

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 100 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 5352405dac9f

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brainlift-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository PSkinnerTech/brainlift-writer-skill (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,049 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.