schema-evolve

schema-evolve is a skill for Claude Code from voxpelli/vp-claude. It costs 139 tokens per session (4,708 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A schema-audit tool for Basic Memory notes that compares the defined structure of a note type with the fields and relationships actually used. A schema is the expected set of fields and links in stored notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review schema drift, check field usage, propose schema changes, and synchronize an approved change with the schema note and local schema file.
Why use it?
It helps find fields that are missing, unused, or no longer match real notes before the mismatch causes inconsistent data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it to review schema drift, check field usage, propose schema changes…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/voxpelli/vp-claude/schema-evolve
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 schema-evolve
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 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,708 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 $0.00139 $0.04708
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.02354
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00942
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00471

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8923c2a78091, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

schema-evolve 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.

skills/schema-evolve/SKILL.md · 423 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 423 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Schema Evolution

Detect drift between a Basic Memory schema definition and actual note usage, propose changes, and synchronize both the BM schema note and the local schemas/ file after user approval.

Arguments

Required: the note type in snake_case.

Example Schema file
npm_package schemas/npm_package.md
brew_formula schemas/brew_formula.md
github_action schemas/github_action.md
engineering schemas/engineering.md
standard schemas/standard.md

The argument must match a type value used in Basic Memory note frontmatter and a corresponding file in schemas/. If the type is unknown, list available schema files and ask the user to pick one.

Optional: --prescribed verb1,verb2,... — force-add specified relation verbs (or observation field names) to the schema regardless of usage frequency. See "Modes" below.

Modes

The skill operates in two complementary modes:

Drift-driven mode (default)

Invocation: /schema-evolve <note_type>

Frequency-based: schema_diff and schema_infer decide what to add or remove. Fields are added only when their actual per-type usage crosses the 25% threshold. This is the right mode for organic schema evolution where the notes lead and the schema catches up.

Limitation: prescribed cross-schema vocabulary (e.g., a Tier-0 verb set that should be declared identically across many schemas) cannot be absorbed this way until each schema independently crosses 25% — which may never happen for narrow types.

Prescribed mode

Invocation: /schema-evolve <note_type> --prescribed verb1,verb2,...

Frequency-bypass: the listed names are force-added to the target schema regardless of usage. Intended for absorbing cross-schema vocabulary (Tier-0 verbs the operator wants declared uniformly across schemas) or for adding fields ahead of authoring practice.

The two modes compose: in a single invocation, prescribed additions are applied alongside drift-driven proposals. Removal and cardinality proposals continue to come from schema_diff / schema_infer and are unaffected by --prescribed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 423 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 · 423 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A 8923c2a78091

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schema-evolve is a skill published in the GitHub repository voxpelli/vp-claude (3 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 4,708 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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