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.
npx skills add yBookoff/thebrain-mcp --skill thebrain-organizegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yBookoff/thebrain-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ybookoff/thebrain-mcp/thebrain-organize)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ybookoff/thebrain-mcp/thebrain-organize"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ybookoff/thebrain-mcp/thebrain-organize/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ybookoff/thebrain-mcp/thebrain-organize"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ybookoff/thebrain-mcp/thebrain-organize.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00085 | $0.00781 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.00391 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00156 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00078 |
Grade A, and why
thebrain-organize 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tidying up a brain
A brain accumulates disorder quietly: duplicates born of different phrasings, orphan thoughts, stubs with no notes, two branches about the same thing under different names.
The governing rule: propose, do not act silently. The structure is authored, and what looks like a duplicate may be a deliberate distinction.
What to look for
Duplicates
Search for one concept through several phrasings and see whether different thoughts about the same thing come back:
brain_search { query: "<concept>", variants: ["synonym", "translation", "acronym"], limit: 20 }
A duplicate candidate is a pair of semantically close thoughts with different identifiers and overlapping notes. Before proposing a merge, read both in full: the difference may be substantive.
Orphans
Thoughts with no links get lost: traversal cannot reach them, only search can.
brain_recent_changes { limit: 200 }
Take the thoughts it mentions and check their neighbourhood:
brain_get_thought { thoughtId: "<id>" }
Empty in every link section means an orphan. Propose where to attach it, based on a search for something similar.
Stubs
The thought exists, the note does not, and there are one or two links. Either a forgotten placeholder or a deliberate rubric node. Tell them apart by context: a rubric usually has children.
Drifted branches
Two areas about the same thing under different names. Visible through traversal:
brain_traverse { thoughtId: "<root of the area>", depth: 3 }
What you may do yourself
Safe and reversible, after showing the person the list:
- Link things that are clearly about the same subject (
brain_linkwith a meaningful label). - Extend a note with missing context (
brain_append_note). - Attach an orphan to a suitable parent (
brain_linkwithrelation: "child").
What you may only propose
- Merging duplicates. Requires deciding which thought is primary and what happens to both notes. Describe the option, wait for agreement.
- Renaming. The name is an authorial choice.
- Deleting. Even with deletion permitted, ask separately for each thought, never as a list — "shall I delete all of these?".
- Restructuring the hierarchy. Mass-moving branches is almost always a bad idea without an explicit request.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 110 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 77b930811181
thebrain-organize is a skill published in the GitHub repository yBookoff/thebrain-mcp (6 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 781 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 2026-08-31.
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