open-note

open-note is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tpierrain/kenjaku. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,292 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A vault-note opener for requests such as “open X for me.” It finds a matching Markdown note or creates one from existing vault material, then opens it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open a known note, find notes about a topic, or create and open a new topic summary from your vault.
Why use it?
It prevents an open request from leaving you with nothing to read. It also avoids manually searching for notes or deciding where a new one belongs.

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/tpierrain/kenjaku/open-note
Any agent
npx skills add tpierrain/kenjaku --skill open-note
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tpierrain/kenjaku

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 open-note

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tpierrain/kenjaku/open-note.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tpierrain/kenjaku/open-note)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tpierrain/kenjaku/open-note"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tpierrain/kenjaku/open-note.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,292 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 $0.00086 $0.01292
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00646
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00129

Measured 4d ago against content hash 588172052752, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

open-note 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.

engine-skills/open-note/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

open-note — "open X for me"

Default behavior of the natural command "open for me". Goal: the user always has something to read in front of them — either the existing note, or a fresh synthesis created on the fly and persisted into the vault.

Principle

One promise only: "open X for me" never falls into the void.

  • If a vault doc is about X → open it as-is (do not modify it).
  • If nothing covers X → synthesize from the vault, write a note that follows the conventions, and open it.

The judgment (which doc, whether to create one, where to file it) stays in the skill; the opening itself is deterministic and is NOT this skill's rule to invent — it belongs to the constitution's §"Opening / viewing / editing a note" (ADR 0027), which this skill obeys as-is.

Procedure

1. Understand the target

Extract the topic from the request. Three cases:

  • Known file (exact path, precise date, obvious note name: daily/2026-06-12, "the prep for ", "the backlog for ") → go straight to step 3 (direct open, no RAG).
  • Semantic topic ("what we know about front-end governance", "the topic") → step 2 (search).
  • Ambiguous → treat as semantic, and resolve the ambiguity by surfacing the candidates.

2. Search the vault

  • mcp__vault-rag__search_vault first (semantic, ~300ms, free).
  • grep/find as a complement for exact matches (name, identifier, date).
  • Judge the relevance of the best match: does this doc really cover X, or just mention it in passing?

3. If a relevant doc exists → open it as-is

Open it exactly the way the constitution prescribes: a note of the vault goes to Obsidian through obsidian://open?path=<url-encoded-abs-path> handed to the OS opener (open / start "" / xdg-open), anything else goes to the OS opener on the file itself. Do not restate or re-derive that rule here — read it there, so the two can never disagree.

  • Do not modify it (respect append-only for dailies, living notes for people/topics — never overwrite a living doc on a mere "open X for me").
  • State which file is being opened and its freshness (updated date).
  • If several docs are equally relevant: open the best one, cite the other candidates in one line (do not block on a choice).

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 4d ago First seen · 87 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 588172052752

Subscribe to this mod's changes

open-note is a skill published in the GitHub repository tpierrain/kenjaku (80 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,292 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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