wiki-initialize

A setup procedure for creating or adopting a Yarbrain Markdown vault. A vault is a folder that stores notes and related files, while lifecycle hooks are automatic actions that help the tool locate it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up Yarbrain for the first time, moving its vault, adopting an existing folder, repairing its structure, and checking the configured location.
Why use it?
It prevents setup from silently choosing a location or overwriting existing notes. It also checks that the vault has the expected folders and can be found by Yarbrain.

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/yarlson/yarstack/wiki-initialize
Any agent
npx skills add yarlson/yarstack --skill wiki-initialize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yarlson/yarstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 346 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 $0.00049 $0.00346
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00035

Measured yesterday against content hash 5b1cae35b8ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wiki-initialize 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/yarbrain/skills/wiki-initialize/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Initialize a Yarbrain Wiki

Create the canonical vault only at a location the user approves. Never initialize or reconfigure a vault as an implicit side effect of installing the plugin.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the vault path, whether it is personal or shared, and whether an existing directory must be adopted without overwriting content.

  2. Confirm authority to write the Yarbrain config. Its default location is ~/.config/yarbrain/config.json; YARBRAIN_CONFIG can select another file.

  3. Resolve ../../scripts/yarbrain.py relative to this SKILL.md and run:

    python3 <helper> init <vault-path>
    

    Use --config only for an explicitly selected config path. Use --no-write-config when the user wants a vault without automatic hooks.

  4. Verify that the command preserved existing files and created INDEX.md plus episodes/, notes/, skills/, inbox/, archive/, reports/, and .cache/.

  5. Run the helper's lint command against the configured vault.

  6. Report the vault and config paths, whether hooks can now find the vault, and any existing content that still needs adoption work.

The vault owns canonical Markdown. The config only locates it. Search indexes, session queues, and plugin installation directories are not canonical knowledge.

Do not import transcripts, create semantic notes, enable network access, or replace an existing index during initialization.

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. yesterday First seen · 35 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 5b1cae35b8ad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wiki-initialize is a skill published in the GitHub repository yarlson/yarstack (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 346 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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