Agent skill

Idea Ingest

by inbrainfun in inbrainfun/inbrain

Ingest links, articles, tweets, and ideas into the brain. An agent skill from inbrainfun/inbrain.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Idea Ingest

skills CLI
$ npx skills add inbrainfun/inbrain --skill idea-ingest -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install inbrainfun/inbrain idea-ingest --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inbrainfun/inbrain.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/idea-ingest .claude/skills/idea-ingest && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
idea-ingest
GitHub stars
142
Token cost
~832 tokens
SKILL.md length
309 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
52
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Ingest links, articles, tweets, and ideas into the brain. An agent skill from inbrainfun/inbrain.

  • Works in 6 steps: Fetch the content. Use appropriate tools… → Upload raw source. Save the fetched… → Identify the author — MANDATORY people… → …
  • The user shares a link
  • SKILL.md covers Contract, Phases, Output Format and Anti-Patterns
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Idea Ingest is an agent skill from inbrainfun/inbrain. Ingest links, articles, tweets, and ideas into the brain. Fetch content, save to brain with analysis, create author people page, and cross-link. Use when the user shares a link or says "read this", "save this", "think about this".

Its SKILL.md is about 830 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Social media posts. It works with X (Twitter).

When your agent uses it

  • The user shares a link
  • Think about this

Example prompts

  • “read this”
  • “save this”
  • “think about this”
  • “/idea-ingest”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Fetch the content. Use appropriate tools for the content type (web fetch for articles, API for tweets, PDF reader for documents).
  2. Upload raw source. Save the fetched content for provenance: inbrain files upload-raw --page
  3. Identify the author — MANDATORY people page. Anyone whose thinking is worth ingesting is worth tracking.
  4. Save to brain. File by PRIMARY SUBJECT (read skills/_brain-filing-rules.md)
  5. Analyze for the user. Reply with analysis that connects the content to what the brain knows. Think about
  6. Sync. inbrain sync to update the index.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5231990. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Idea Ingest loads about 832 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 61 tokens; SKILL.md has 309 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~61
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~832

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 309 words (~832 tokens).

name
idea-ingest
version
1.0.0
triggers
shares a link or URL, read this, save this, think about this, put this in brain
tools
search, query, get_page, put_page, add_link, add_timeline_entry, file_upload
mutating
true
writes_pages
true
writes_to
people/, concepts/, sources/

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/idea-ingest of inbrainfun/inbrain.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5231990

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Works with

Questions about Idea Ingest

What does Idea Ingest do?

Ingest links, articles, tweets, and ideas into the brain. An agent skill from inbrainfun/inbrain. Idea Ingest is an agent skill from inbrainfun/inbrain. Ingest links, articles, tweets, and ideas into the brain.

When should I use Idea Ingest?

Idea Ingest fits situations like: the user shares a link; think about this.

How do I install Idea Ingest in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add inbrainfun/inbrain --skill idea-ingest -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/idea-ingest in inbrainfun/inbrain) into .claude/skills/idea-ingest in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Idea Ingest in Codex?

Run `npx skills add inbrainfun/inbrain --skill idea-ingest -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/idea-ingest in inbrainfun/inbrain) into .agents/skills/idea-ingest in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Idea Ingest in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add inbrainfun/inbrain --skill idea-ingest -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/idea-ingest, .gemini/skills/idea-ingest, .github/skills/idea-ingest and .opencode/skills/idea-ingest in your project.

What does Idea Ingest need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Idea Ingest is instructions for the agent only.

Does Idea Ingest access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Idea Ingest safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Idea Ingest use?

Idea Ingest has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Idea Ingest use?

About 832 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Idea Ingest?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Idea Ingest: Social (coreyhaines31/marketingskills, 54k stars), Social Content (freekmurze/dotfiles, 1k stars), Typefully (freekmurze/dotfiles, 1k stars) and Changelog Social Recap (FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide, 6.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Idea Ingest?

inbrainfun (a GitHub user) maintains it in inbrainfun/inbrain, which has 142 GitHub stars. The repository holds 52 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 17, 2026.

Source: inbrainfun/inbrain on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.