knowledge-garden

knowledge-garden is a skill for Claude Code from voxpelli/vp-claude. It costs 152 tokens per session (2,523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only checker for named notes or a small group of related notes in Basic Memory, a note-keeping system. It looks for structural and quality problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit specific notes or topics, validate their structure, and receive actionable repair suggestions.
Why use it?
It helps find orphaned notes, broken links, and other issues without changing your notes. Findings are ready to copy and apply elsewhere.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the vp-knowledge plugin — 14 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit specific notes or topics, validate their structure, and receive actionable repair suggestions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/voxpelli/vp-claude/knowledge-garden
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 voxpelli/vp-claude --skill knowledge-garden
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/voxpelli/vp-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vp-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,523 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.
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 $0.00152 $0.02523
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01262
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00252

Measured 8d ago against content hash a7d99d254883, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-garden 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 8d 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.

skills/knowledge-garden/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Garden

Audit Basic Memory notes for structural and quality issues, then report actionable, copy-paste-ready findings. Read-only — never writes or modifies notes. Fixes are handed off to /knowledge-maintain.

This skill is the scoped, interactive sibling of the knowledge-gardener agent. It owns the common case — auditing a handful of named notes inline in the main session — and delegates the heavy, graph-wide sweep to the agent so the full audit's hundreds of note reads stay out of the main context window.

Arguments

The user names the notes or topics to audit after the invocation:

Form Example
One note title /knowledge-garden npm-fastify
Several notes /knowledge-garden npm-umzeption npm-umzug
Prefixed identifier /knowledge-garden brew:ripgrep
Topic phrase /knowledge-garden the IndieWeb concept notes
No arguments /knowledge-garden → whole-graph audit (delegated)

1. Decide venue (scoped inline vs delegate)

This is the first and most important step. Classify the request:

Delegate to the agent when the request is graph-wide — any of:

  • No arguments are provided.
  • The argument is a whole-graph phrase: "my knowledge graph", "the whole graph", "everything", "all notes", "full audit", "--full", "graph health".
  • The request implies graph-wide checks the inline path cannot do efficiently: schema drift across a whole type, version drift across ecosystems, cross-project scope leak, orphan detection across the entire graph, tag alignment.

To delegate, launch the read-only auditor and stop: call Agent(subagent_type="knowledge-gardener", description="Full graph health audit", prompt="<the user's original request, verbatim>") — i.e. pass a description summarizing the audit as "Full graph health audit" and a prompt that is the user's original request, verbatim.

Relay the agent's report. Do not also run the inline path. If the Agent call fails or returns no usable report (unknown subagent type, error payload, or empty output — the knowledge-gardener agent may not be installed), say so explicitly: name the failure, do not fabricate a clean result, and offer to run the scoped inline path on a named subset as a fallback. Never report a passing audit you did not actually receive.

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 8d ago First seen · 196 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A a7d99d254883

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knowledge-garden is a skill published in the GitHub repository voxpelli/vp-claude (3 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,523 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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