schema-author

schema-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timurgaleev/memex. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,956 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for defining and maintaining the categories, page types, filing prefixes, and link rules used by a knowledge base.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or propose page types, update taxonomy rules, backfill missing type fields, and check the health of the classification system.
Why use it?
It keeps the knowledge model consistent as new kinds of information appear and helps repair pages that lack type information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to add or propose page types, update taxonomy rules, backfill missing type fields, and check the health of the classification system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timurgaleev/memex/schema-author
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 timurgaleev/memex --skill schema-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timurgaleev/memex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,956 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 253
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00069 $0.02956
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.01182
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00296

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7785f71462a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

schema-author 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 1mo 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/schema-author/SKILL.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

schema-author — evolve the brain's type taxonomy

memex uses OPEN page typing: a page's type lives in its frontmatter, filing prefixes are conventions (see _brain-filing-rules.md), and typed links are derived from page content. There is no mutable "pack" artifact — the taxonomy is the set of conventions the ontology tracks plus the frontmatter discipline this skill enforces. Authoring the taxonomy means: read the active ontology, propose changes through it, record the convention, and backfill existing pages.

Non-goals (use these other skills instead)

This skill AUTHORS the taxonomy (adds page types, link verbs, filing prefixes, expert-routing decisions). For these adjacent jobs, route elsewhere:

  • Filing one specific page → skills/brain-taxonomist (via get_skill brain-taxonomist). Brain-taxonomist routes at WRITE TIME ("where does this note go?"). schema-author changes the rules at AUTHORING TIME ("what types and prefixes exist?").
  • Taxonomy-check as part of EIIRP iteration → skills/eiirp already has a schema-check phase. Don't duplicate.
  • Just looking up a type's settings → ontology_get (or ontology_dimensions for the dimension breakdown) directly. This skill is for CHANGING the taxonomy, not READING from it.
  • Querying who knows about X → find_experts directly (or the expert-routing conventions). schema-author decides that a type should be expert-routable; it does not run the query.

Convention

Convention: see conventions/brain-first.md (via get_skill conventions/brain-first) for the lookup chain (search → query → page_get → external).

Convention: see conventions/schema-evolution.md (via get_skill conventions/schema-evolution) for "when to add a type vs alias vs prefix" — the heuristic.

When to invoke

Invoke when the user (or a sibling skill) says any of:

  • "Add a researcher type to my taxonomy"
  • "I have 4000 untyped pages under meetings/"
  • "My brain doesn't know that journal-article is a type"
  • "Treat paper pages as fact-extractable"
  • "Propose types from what I've ingested"
  • "Backfill the new types onto existing pages"

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 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. 1mo ago Changed · -2 lines 7785f71462a1
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 289 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 09a64a2665c5

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schema-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository timurgaleev/memex (11 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,956 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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