mempalace-zettelkasten

mempalace-zettelkasten is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sefodo26/mempalace-server. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning ideas into small, linked notes stored in MemPalace. Zettelkasten, also called a slip box, is a note-taking system where each note contains one reusable idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture insights, rewrite them in your own words, assign stable note IDs, and link related ideas.
Why use it?
It turns scattered thoughts into searchable notes that remain understandable and connected over time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to capture insights, rewrite them in your own words, assign stable note IDs, and link related ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sefodo26/mempalace-server/mempalace-zettelkasten
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 sefodo26/mempalace-server --skill mempalace-zettelkasten
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sefodo26/mempalace-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,284 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00079 $0.01284
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00128

Measured 11d ago against content hash cd09b9f6f268, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mempalace-zettelkasten scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

(`/mp/api/v1`) with `curl`. Writing needs a **write** key; reading is fine with
skills/mempalace-zettelkasten/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zettelkasten in MemPalace

The Zettelkasten ("slip box") method turns scattered thoughts into a linked web of small, reusable notes. This skill applies it on top of MemPalace so ideas are reformulated in your own words and found again quickly through meaning and links.

The four rules of a good Zettel:

  1. Atomic — one idea per note. If it needs "and", split it.
  2. In your own words — reformulate; never paste raw. Writing it forces understanding and makes it searchable by concept, not just keywords.
  3. Self-contained — readable alone, months later, without the source.
  4. Linked — every note connects to at least one other note.

How it maps to MemPalace

Zettelkasten MemPalace
Slip box one wing, e.g. zettelkasten
Topic / cluster a room, e.g. learning, product-ideas
A single note (Zettel) a drawer
Stable note ID a slug at the top of the drawer, e.g. z-2026-0042-spaced-repetition
Link between notes inline [[z-id]] refs and a mempalace_create_tunnel
Index / structure note a special drawer in room index that lists entry points

Access

Use MCP tools (mempalace_*) if connected, else the REST API (/mp/api/v1) with curl. Writing needs a write key; reading is fine with a read-only key.

Adding a note (the main flow)

  1. Catch the raw idea from the user (a sentence, a paragraph, a link).

  2. Search first — always. Run mempalace_search with the idea's core concept before writing. This does two jobs:

    • finds notes to link to,
    • reveals if the idea already exists (then extend/refine that note instead of duplicating it).
  3. Reformulate atomically. Rewrite the idea in clear, plain words as a standalone claim. One idea only. If you find two, make two notes.

  4. Give it a stable ID and title. Use a slug like z-<YYYY>-<NNNN>-<short-title>. Keep the ID forever, even if you edit the text — links depend on it. Ask the user for the next free number, or derive one (e.g. count existing notes + 1).

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 11d ago First seen · 112 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A cd09b9f6f268

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mempalace-zettelkasten is a skill published in the GitHub repository sefodo26/mempalace-server (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,284 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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