find

find is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from the-sid-dani/second-brain-os. It costs 150 tokens per session (2,382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for recalling notes and files across a personal knowledge system, including resources, projects, archives, and memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding previous research, project notes, meeting information, and other saved knowledge before creating new work.
Why use it?
It avoids searching each folder separately and can rank relevant matches or create a summary with file citations.

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/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/find
Any agent
npx skills add the-sid-dani/second-brain-os --skill find
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,382 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 $0.00150 $0.02382
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01191
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00476
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00238

Measured 4d ago against content hash 139257935c88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find 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.

.claude/skills/find/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

find

Unified recall across the second brain. Default mode: ranked list of matches. Optional: synthesis pass that reads top matches and produces a citations-backed summary.

Before you begin: read the Configuration section in root CLAUDE.md. Path tokens like <workspace.resources> resolve from there — don't hardcode.

Why this exists

Without /find, recall is manual flailing across four organizational locations: Resources (research/reference/meetings), Projects (active), Archive (closed), and Memory (daily logs + curated long-form). /find unifies the search surface into one skill.

Two downstream consumers depend on this:

  1. Layer 3 skills (briefing, meeting-prep, etc.) — before generating "what's on your plate today", they need to ask "what existing notes are relevant?". Without a recall primitive, every Layer 3 skill reinvents search.
  2. The user, daily — "do I have anything on the Anthropic admin API?" should be one slash command, not a 4-step find | grep | head | cat ritual.

This skill is a port of claudesidian's research-assistant adapted to our paths, frontmatter conventions, and the synthesis-with-citations pattern. The "identify contradictions" guidance from claudesidian is preserved — when sources disagree, surface it explicitly rather than silently pick one.

When to use

Trigger phrases (broad — recall is the pattern, not the literal command):

  • "do I have anything on X" / "what do I have on X"
  • "find my notes on X" / "search for X"
  • "is there research on X" / "any research about X"
  • "what did I save about X" / "what do I know about X"
  • "is there a project for X" / "any project related to X"
  • "what's in my notes on X" / "search my second brain for X"
  • "/find X" / "/find"

Do NOT trigger for:

  • Content creation — generate directly. Recall is implicit; the user will say "find" if they want it first.
  • A specific known filename — Read it directly.
  • Web search — use WebSearch / WebFetch.
  • Code search inside <workspace.coding>/<repo>/ — that's a per-repo concern; /find doesn't span gitignored code repos.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 205 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 139257935c88

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find is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-sid-dani/second-brain-os (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 2,382 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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