thebrain-organize

thebrain-organize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yBookoff/thebrain-mcp. It costs 85 tokens per session (781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for tidying TheBrain, a tool for organizing linked notes and ideas. It helps identify duplicate notes, unlinked thoughts, empty placeholders, and separate branches covering the same subject.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review duplicates, find notes with no links, locate unfinished entries, and decide where scattered ideas belong.
Why use it?
It makes structural drift easier to spot while keeping changes under your control, since it proposes fixes instead of changing the structure silently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review duplicates, find notes with no links, locate unfinished entries, and decide where scattered ideas belong.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ybookoff/thebrain-mcp/thebrain-organize
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 yBookoff/thebrain-mcp --skill thebrain-organize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yBookoff/thebrain-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 781 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 $0.00085 $0.00781
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00391
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00078

Measured 11d ago against content hash 77b930811181, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

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.

skills/thebrain-organize/SKILL.md · 110 lines

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_link with a meaningful label).
  • Extend a note with missing context (brain_append_note).
  • Attach an orphan to a suitable parent (brain_link with relation: "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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 11d ago First seen · 110 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 77b930811181

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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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