idea-ingest

idea-ingest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timurgaleev/memex. It costs 60 tokens per session (918 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for saving links, articles, social posts, and ideas into a connected knowledge base with analysis and source records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read and save shared content, create pages about authors, add citations, and link related knowledge in both directions.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of collecting research, preserving where it came from, and connecting it to related people and companies.

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

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.

agentmods badge for idea-ingest

README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 918 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 $0.00060 $0.00918
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00459
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00092

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2efc4577216a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-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 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.

deploy/skills/idea-ingest/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Ingest Skill

Filing rule: Read skills/_brain-filing-rules.md (via get_skill _brain-filing-rules) before creating any new page.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

  • Every ingested item has a brain page with genuine analysis (not just a summary)
  • The author gets a people page (MANDATORY for anyone whose thinking is worth ingesting)
  • Cross-links created bidirectionally (source ↔ author, source ↔ mentioned entities)
  • Raw source preserved for provenance via the put_raw_data tool
  • Every fact has an inline [Source: ...] citation
  • Filing follows primary subject rules (not format-based)

Convention: See conventions/quality.md (via get_skill conventions/quality) for Iron Law back-linking.

Every mention of a person or company with a brain page MUST create a back-link. Format: - **YYYY-MM-DD** | Referenced in [page title](path) — brief context

Phases

  1. Fetch the content. Use appropriate tools for the content type (web fetch for articles, API for tweets, PDF reader for documents).

  2. Preserve the raw source. Store the fetched content for provenance with put_raw_data, keyed to the page slug it belongs to. Text and JSON go into the brain directly; for large binaries, record the original URL or file path on the page instead.

  3. Identify the author — MANDATORY people page. Anyone whose thinking is worth ingesting is worth tracking.

    • search the brain for an existing author page
    • If no page → CREATE ONE (page_put) with compiled truth + timeline format
    • If page exists → update the timeline with this new publication (add_timeline_event)
    • Cross-link both directions (link)
  4. Save to brain. File by PRIMARY SUBJECT (read skills/_brain-filing-rules.md):

    • About a person → people/
    • About a company → companies/
    • A reusable framework → concepts/
    • Raw data dump → sources/
  5. Analyze for the user. Reply with analysis that connects the content to what the brain knows. Think about:

    • Active projects — is this relevant?
    • Contradictions — does this challenge existing brain knowledge?
    • Connections — does this involve known people/companies?
    • Don't just summarize. Tell the user things they wouldn't have noticed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

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 · 105 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 2efc4577216a

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idea-ingest is a skill published in the GitHub repository timurgaleev/memex (8 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 918 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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