epic-note

A writing aid for composing short messages to a doctor through patient portals such as Epic MyChart or Oracle Health HealtheLife. It checks for emergency warning signs before drafting a message.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare one focused message for a primary-care doctor or specialist about symptoms, medicines, results, referrals, or recent visits.
Why use it?
It turns symptoms, refill requests, test-result questions, and visit follow-ups into a clear message while avoiding drafts when urgent care may be needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/realactivity/tula/epic-note
Any agent
npx skills add realactivity/tula --skill epic-note
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/realactivity/tula

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 821 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00097 $0.00821
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00411
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00082

Measured 2d ago against content hash 433e9965cc05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epic-note 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 2d 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/epic-note/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

epic-note

When to Use

✅ Use when:

  • The user asks for help drafting a message to their PCP or specialist
  • Reporting a new or worsening symptom
  • Asking about a recent test or lab result
  • Requesting a medication refill
  • Following up after a visit, procedure, or referral

When NOT to Use

❌ Don't use when:

  • Symptoms suggest an emergency - return the 911 redirect from references/triage-rules.md, don't draft
  • Generating a clinician-facing note (SOAP, discharge, dictation)
  • Drafting non-clinical letters (insurance, billing)
  • The user is asking a medical question for advice - that's answered directly, not in a portal message

Setup

Profile. Resolve from the precedence in references/profile-schema.md (skill config -> env var -> ~/.openclaw/workspace/memory/profile.yaml). Use care_team.pcp.display_name as the default greeting recipient when the user doesn't name a clinician. The skill never contains the profile.

Workflow

  1. Triage first. Scan input for red-flag symptoms. If present, do NOT draft - return the 911 redirect text from references/triage-rules.md.

  2. Identify the single ask. If multiple unrelated topics exist, propose separate messages and ask the user which to send first.

  3. Draft using the canonical format in references/portal-message-format.md: Subject: line with urgency, greeting, one-sentence ask, 2-4 sentences of context, optional bullet data, sign-off.

  4. Word budget. Aim for ≤150 words; hard cap 220. Front-load the ask. Plain language. No self-diagnosis, no filler praise, no PHI of others.

  5. Output is copy-paste ready. No explanations or meta-commentary wrapped around the message - just the message itself.

Examples

See references/examples.md for worked input/output pairs (medication side effect, lab follow-up, refill request, multi-topic split).

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 91 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 433e9965cc05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

epic-note is a skill published in the GitHub repository realactivity/tula (45 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 821 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 2026-08-30.

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