outline-builder

outline-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind. It costs 66 tokens per session (461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns messy notes, web pages, or selected text into a structured outline with headings, key points, evidence, and missing information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize research, plan articles or reports, extract key points, and decide what evidence or information is still needed.
Why use it?
It makes unorganized material easier to turn into a finished piece while separating supported facts from assumptions. It does not hide gaps by inventing details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to organize research, plan articles or reports, extract key points, and decide what evidence or information is still needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind/outline-builder
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 surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind --skill outline-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 461 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 $0.00066 $0.00461
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00046

Measured 9d ago against content hash 222c42c058d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outline-builder 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 9d 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/outline-builder/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Outline Builder

Turn the user's selected text, page, or notes into a structured outline with headings, key points, evidence, and gaps. Work only from what is present; never invent facts, numbers, names, or sources.

  1. Determine the target format and audience.
  2. Extract the main thesis, supporting points, evidence, examples, objections, and gaps.
  3. Arrange sections in a logical reading order.
  4. Keep headings specific enough that the user can draft from them directly.

Return concise headings and include these sections when they fit: Working title, Outline, Evidence to include, Gaps to fill.

Separate supported facts from assumptions and recommendations. Preserve important names, numbers, links, code, dates, currencies, and user constraints. Do not over-structure tiny inputs, and do not hide weak evidence inside confident headings. If the context is insufficient, say what is missing and give the best supported next step.

Example

Notes (selected text):

remote work post — pros: less commute, focus time. cons: lonely, harder onboarding. survey said 70% want hybrid? double check. mention manager training

Outline:

Working title: The Case for Hybrid Work

Outline

  1. Hook — the commute people got back
  2. Benefits of remote: reclaimed time, deep focus
  3. The costs: isolation, harder onboarding
  4. Why hybrid splits the difference
  5. What makes hybrid work: manager training

Evidence to include

  • Survey: 70% prefer hybrid (verify the figure and source before publishing)

Gaps to fill

  • A concrete onboarding example
  • What "manager training" should cover
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. 9d ago First seen · 51 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 222c42c058d9

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outline-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 461 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.