capture

A workflow for saving links and other outside material, such as articles, videos, bookmarks, or music, in a reference library with notes about why they matter.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps record a source URL, identify its type, add tags and notes, and store it in a suitable resources folder.
Why use it?
It keeps useful material and its context from getting scattered across browser tabs, chats, and services.

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/teejayen/arc/capture
Any agent
npx skills add teejayen/arc --skill capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/teejayen/arc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 446 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 $0.00042 $0.00446
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00223
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash c361c09b96cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capture 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/capture/SKILL.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

Capture

Save external content (bookmarks, YouTube, Spotify, articles) with context.

When to Use

  • User shares a link worth saving
  • External content needs to be captured with context
  • Building a reference library of resources

Execution Steps

Step 1: Determine content type

From context or ask:

  • bookmark -> resources/bookmarks/
  • youtube -> resources/youtube/
  • spotify -> resources/spotify/
  • article -> resources/articles/
  • other -> resources/ root or create new subfolder

Step 2: Gather details

If not provided, ask for:

  • URL or identifier
  • Why this matters / why saving it (this is the valuable context)
  • Tags or topics it relates to
  • Any specific notes

Step 3: Create capture file

Filename: descriptive-title.md (no date prefix - frontmatter has timestamp)

---
title: "[Content title]"
created: YYYY-MM-DD
source: [full URL]
platform: [youtube|spotify|web|twitter|podcast|etc]
tags: [topic, topic]
status: unprocessed
---

# [Content title]

**Source:** [URL]
**Captured:** YYYY-MM-DD

## Why I Saved This
[User's reason - the context that will matter when rediscovering this later]

## Summary
[Brief description of what this is]

## Key Points
[If applicable - remove if just a bookmark for later]
- Point 1
- Point 2

## Notes
[Additional context, quotes, timestamps for videos, etc.]

## Related
- [[relevant-notes]]

Step 4: Confirm

  • Show saved location
  • Suggest related areas/projects to link
  • Note if this connects to current focus areas
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. 2d ago First seen · 77 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A c361c09b96cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository teejayen/arc (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 446 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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