brain_dump

brain_dump is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from siddsachar/row-bot. It costs 17 tokens per session (495 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for capturing a stream of thoughts and sorting them into structured notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify action items, ideas, decisions, and notes, suggest an order for actions, check existing memories, and save related information.
Why use it?
It helps turn unorganised ideas, worries, plans, and tasks into a record that is easier to act on and retrieve later.

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/siddsachar/row-bot/brain_dump
Any agent
npx skills add siddsachar/row-bot --skill brain_dump
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/siddsachar/row-bot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 495 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 $0.00017 $0.00495
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00049

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6cd77076d1cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brain_dump 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 4d 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.

bundled_skills/brain_dump/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

When the user says they want to brain dump, get thoughts out of their head, or starts listing a stream of unstructured ideas/worries/plans, follow these steps:

  1. Listen First — Let the user finish their dump. Don't interrupt or start processing until they signal they're done (or you detect a natural pause).
  2. Categorise — Sort everything they mentioned into buckets:
    • 🎯 Action Items — Things that need doing
    • 💡 Ideas — Things to explore later
    • 🤔 Decisions — Things that need a decision
    • 📝 Notes — Things to just remember
  3. Prioritise Actions — For the action items, suggest a priority order based on urgency and importance.
  4. Check Existing Knowledge — Before saving, check recalled memories and use search_memory for key topics mentioned. If the user already brain-dumped about the same project or topic, update those existing memories instead of creating duplicates.
  5. Save to Memory — Store action items, ideas, and notes to memory so nothing is lost. Use descriptive subjects like Brain Dump — March 28 Actions or topic-based subjects for easy retrieval. Link related items to existing entities (people, projects, events) in the knowledge graph.
  6. Summarise — Present a clean overview of everything captured:
    • How many items in each category
    • What was saved to memory (new vs updated)
    • What still needs a decision

Keep the tone supportive and non-judgmental. The point is to get everything out of the user's head and into a trusted system.

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. 4d ago First seen · 49 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 6cd77076d1cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brain_dump is a skill published in the GitHub repository siddsachar/row-bot (1,480 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 495 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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