Digital Garden Cultivator

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Curating a knowledge base
• Pruning stale notes
• Tracking content maturity

Example prompts

• “Use the digital-garden-cultivator skill to manage digital garden notes, link structures, and health metrics”
• “/digital-garden-cultivator”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Collect Sources - Gather notes, bookmarks, ideas
2. 2Plan Structure - Define garden organization
3. 3Create Links - Build bidirectional connections
4. 4Schedule Maintenance - Establish tending cadence
5. 5Document Outputs - Convert mature ideas to formal docs

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9f3eb00. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python
  • git

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Digital Garden Cultivator loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 45 tokens; SKILL.md has 456 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~45

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from athola/claude-night-market at commit 9f3eb00, republished under its MIT licence (© athola). 456 words, ~1,222 tokens.

name

digital-garden-cultivator

description

Manages digital garden notes, link structures, and health metrics. Use when curating a knowledge base, pruning stale notes, or tracking content maturity.

alwaysApply

false

category

cultivation

tags

digital-garden, knowledge-base, linking, curation, documentation

dependencies

leyline:storage-templates

scripts

garden_metrics.py

usage_patterns

garden-management, knowledge-curation, content-lifecycle

complexity

intermediate

model_hint

standard

estimated_tokens

500

python -m memory_palace.garden_metrics path/to/garden.json --format brief

garden:
  sections: ["research", "patterns", "experiments"]
  plots:
    - name: "My First Note"
      purpose: "reference"  # reference | evergreen | lab
      maturity: "seedling"  # seedling | growing | evergreen
      inbound_links: []
      outbound_links: []
      last_tended: "2025-11-24T10:00:00Z"

© athola, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files in plugins/memory-palace/skills/digital-garden-cultivator of athola/claude-night-market.

• SKILL.md
• modules/linking-patterns.md
• modules/maintenance.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9f3eb00