hippocampus: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/ingest/SKILL.md

ingest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sturlese/hippocampus. It costs 110 tokens per session (163 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for turning unstructured notes, files, URLs, or pasted text into organized wiki pages. It also updates the wiki's metadata and indexes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process inbox files, file a note or URL, convert source notes into pages, and maintain the wiki's index, activity log, and cached information.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of deciding how raw information should be structured and linked. It keeps the surrounding wiki records updated as new material is added.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

This is sturlese/hippocampus's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on hippocampus itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything hippocampus configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sturlese/hippocampus. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sturlese/hippocampus/main/.agents/skills/ingest/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sturlese/hippocampus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 163 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 $0.00110 $0.00163
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00016

Measured 8d ago against content hash dd5358a71ebd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ingest 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 8d 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.

.agents/skills/ingest/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Codex adapter

Read .claude/skills/ingest/SKILL.md completely and follow it as the canonical ingest workflow. Its contract applies unchanged to Codex.

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. 8d ago First seen · 15 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A dd5358a71ebd

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ingest is a skill published in the GitHub repository sturlese/hippocampus (28 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 163 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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link-memory

Use after important user-approved decisions, when durable context should be proposed or reviewed, and for explicit Link memory lifecycle work: remember, recall, review, update, archive, restore, forget, or explain local memories through the CLI without requiring MCP.

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link-retrieve

Use before answering work that may depend on user memory, project history, source-backed notes, or prior decisions; retrieve compact Link context through the CLI without loading the whole wiki or requiring MCP.

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link-health

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link-ingest

Use when raw files are present, source pages look stale, or a user asks to ingest notes into Link; refresh source-backed wiki pages, propose memories, and validate updates through the CLI without MCP.

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