file-organizer

file-organizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from smithjoshua/claude-code-cowork-skills-file-organizer. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,449 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A file-organizing workflow based on PARA: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archive, four groups for sorting information by purpose and how long it remains useful.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize a directory, propose renames, create an _ORG tracking folder, move files, and prompt a final inbox review.
Why use it?
It helps turn poorly named or scattered files into a consistent folder structure with approval checkpoints before changes are made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to organize a directory, propose renames, create an _ORG tracking folder, move files, and prompt a final inbox review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/smithjoshua/claude-code-cowork-skills-file-organizer/cowork-skill
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 smithjoshua/claude-code-cowork-skills-file-organizer --skill cowork-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smithjoshua/claude-code-cowork-skills-file-organizer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,449 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 $0.00108 $0.01449
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00145

Measured 13d ago against content hash d5beff130add, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-organizer 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 13d 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.

cowork-skill/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

File Organizer (PARA Method)

Organizes files using the PARA methodology from "Building a Second Brain" by Tiago Forte. Intelligent categorization with inbox workflow and complete audit trails.

What is PARA?

# Category Contains Lifespan
0 Inbox New files awaiting processing Temporary
1 Projects Active work with deadlines Short-term
2 Areas Ongoing responsibilities Long-term
3 Resources Reference materials by topic Evergreen
4 Archive Inactive/completed items Preserved

Workflow Overview

Phase 1: Discovery     → Scan, count, assess filename quality
Phase 2: Analysis      → Read file contents for poor names, propose renames
Phase 3: Preparation   → Create PARA folder structure, get user approval
Phase 4: Execution     → Rename and move files (with logging)
Phase 5: Completion    → Generate summary, prompt inbox review

Quick Start

  1. Create _ORG/ folder in target directory
  2. Initialize tracking files from references/templates.md
  3. Customize references/config.md for your needs
  4. Execute phases with user approval checkpoints

Folder Structure (PARA Method)

Target-Directory/
├── 0-Inbox/                    # New files land here first
│   └── _REVIEW/                # Files needing manual attention
├── 1-Projects/                 # Active work with deadlines
│   ├── Work/
│   └── Personal/
├── 2-Areas/                    # Ongoing responsibilities
│   ├── Finance/
│   ├── Health/
│   ├── Legal/
│   └── Career/
├── 3-Resources/                # Reference materials by topic
│   ├── Media/
│   │   ├── Images/
│   │   ├── Videos/
│   │   ├── Audio/
│   │   └── Screenshots/
│   ├── Tools/
│   │   ├── Installers/
│   │   └── Utilities/
│   └── Learning/
│       ├── Articles/
│       ├── Books/
│       └── Courses/
├── 4-Archive/                  # Inactive/completed items
│   ├── Completed-Projects/
│   └── Past-Years/
└── _ORG/                       # Organization tracking files
    ├── _PLAN.md
    ├── _LOG.md
    └── _MANIFEST.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 13d ago First seen · 167 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A d5beff130add

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file-organizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository smithjoshua/claude-code-cowork-skills-file-organizer (56 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,449 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.