concept-synthesis

concept-synthesis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timurgaleev/memex. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for turning many rough, repeated idea notes into a structured map of distinct concepts, grouped by importance and linked to their sources over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to merge near-duplicate concepts, preserve their history and aliases, group related ideas, and assign tiers from established ideas to informal variations.
Why use it?
It removes duplicate pages and repeated timelines so related ideas can be understood as a coherent body of thought instead of a pile of notes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/timurgaleev/memex/concept-synthesis
Any agent
npx skills add timurgaleev/memex --skill concept-synthesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timurgaleev/memex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

agentmods badge for concept-synthesis

README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,149 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 5.1 $0.00050 $0.02149
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01074
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00215

Measured 6d ago against content hash b012db45ebe4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

concept-synthesis 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

deploy/skills/concept-synthesis/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

concept-synthesis — From Raw Stubs to Intellectual Map

Convention: see conventions/quality.md (via get_skill conventions/quality) for back-link enforcement and quote-fidelity requirements.

Convention: see _brain-filing-rules.md (via get_skill _brain-filing-rules) — output pages under concepts/ per the primary-subject rule.

What this solves

Ingestion pipelines (signal-detector, idea-ingest, voice-note-ingest) create a concept page for every idea mentioned. Over months this produces:

  • Thousands of stub pages, many duplicates or near-duplicates
  • Timeline entries that repeat the same source across multiple concept pages
  • No synthesis — just "the operator mentioned X on this date"
  • No tier assignments — everything flat
  • No clustering — related ideas aren't linked

This skill transforms that raw material into a curated intellectual map.

Architecture

Phase 1: Dedup + merge (deterministic)
  N stubs → ~N/4 canonical concepts
    ├── Jaccard dedup (word-overlap on titles + first-paragraph)
    ├── Substring dedup ("founder mode" vs "founder mode vs manager mode")
    ├── Semantic dedup (LLM: "are these the same idea?")
    └── Merge timelines + aliases from duplicates into the canonical page

Phase 2: Score + tier (deterministic + heuristic)
  Each canonical concept → scored and tiered
    ├── Frequency: distinct sources referencing this concept
    ├── Timespan: first mention → last mention in days
    ├── Breadth: distinct months it appears in
    ├── Engagement: avg engagement on concept-bearing sources (if available)
    └── Tier: T1 Canon | T2 Developing | T3 Speculative | T4 Riff

Phase 3: Synthesize (LLM, T1+T2 only)
  T1 + T2 concepts → rich synthesis
    ├── Evolution narrative: how the idea sharpened over time
    ├── Best articulation: highest-engagement or most precise quote
    ├── Related concepts: cross-links to other concepts
    ├── Context: what was happening when this idea emerged / evolved
    └── Counter-positions: what this idea argues against

Phase 4: Cluster + map (LLM)
  All tiered concepts → intellectual clusters
    ├── Group related concepts into domains (auto-named via LLM)
    ├── Generate cluster summary pages
    ├── Build a master concepts/README.md with the full map
    └── Identify idea genealogies (concept A → evolved into concept B)

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 6d ago First seen · 265 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A b012db45ebe4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

concept-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository timurgaleev/memex (8 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,149 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.

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