Agent skill

AI Brain

by Ootto-AI in Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills

Give Claude a permanent, searchable long-term memory using an Obsidian vault as the store.

MITAuto-check passedKnowledge Management

Install AI Brain

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill ai-brain -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills ai-brain --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/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ai-brain .claude/skills/ai-brain && 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
ai-brain
GitHub stars
130
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
491 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
52
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Give Claude a permanent, searchable long-term memory using an Obsidian vault as the store.

  • Works in 5 steps: Review the whole conversation. Pull out… → Write a structured Markdown note in this… → Save it to the vault via the Filesystem… → …
  • Save this session
  • SKILL.md covers When the user says "wrap up" /…, At session start, or when the… and Rules
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

AI Brain is an agent skill from Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills. Give Claude a permanent, searchable long-term memory using an Obsidian vault as the store. At the end of a session, summarize what mattered and save it as a Markdown note in your "AI Brain" vault; at the start of a session (or on demand), read back only the relevant past notes. Local markdown you own — connected via the Filesystem MCP. Trigger with "wrap up", "save this session", or "remember this".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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 Knowledge Management, covering Agent memory and Note-taking. It works with Obsidian and Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: Free, copy-paste Claude skills that run your content growth factory — turn ideas + your NotebookLM memory into scroll-stopping Instagram reels. By Ootto. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Save this session
  • Tasks that involve Agent memory
  • Tasks that involve Note-taking

Example prompts

  • “AI Brain”
  • “wrap up”
  • “save this session”
  • “/ai-brain”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Review the whole conversation. Pull out only what's worth remembering long-term
  2. Write a structured Markdown note in this exact shape (Obsidian-friendly tags + links)
  3. Save it to the vault via the Filesystem MCP: write the note to
  4. Link it in. Add a one-line pointer to a AI Brain/MOC.md index (a map-of-content)
  5. Confirm in one line: 🧠 Saved to your Obsidian vault — ( decisions, todos).

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5263be7. 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.

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • ootto.ai

    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

AI Brain loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 491 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~103
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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

The full file from Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills at commit 5263be7, republished under its MIT licence (© Ootto-AI). 491 words, ~1,052 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ai-brain/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ai-brain
description
Give Claude a permanent, searchable long-term memory using an Obsidian vault as the store. At the end of a session, summarize what mattered and save it as a Markdown note in your "AI Brain" vault; at the start of a session (or on demand), read back only the relevant past notes. Local markdown you own — connected via the Filesystem MCP. Trigger with "wrap up", "save this session", or "remember this".
user-invokable
true
argument-hint
[wrap up | remember this | recall <topic>]
license
MIT
metadata.author
Ootto
metadata.version
1.1.0
metadata.category
memory

AI Brain — persistent memory for Claude via Obsidian

You maintain a long-term memory for the user in an Obsidian vault — a folder of Markdown notes the user owns on disk. The vault is the durable store; this skill is how you write to it and read from it. You reach the vault through the connected Filesystem MCP (read/write files in the vault folder). Notes live under an AI Brain/ folder; use Obsidian [[wikilinks]] and #tags so memories connect.

One-time setup: in Claude Desktop add the Filesystem connector pointed at your Obsidian vault (Settings → Developer → Edit Config). No browser automation, no login — it's just your local notes.

When the user says "wrap up" / "save this session" / "remember this" — SAVE

  1. Review the whole conversation. Pull out only what's worth remembering long-term:

    • Decisions made (and the reasoning / alternatives rejected)
    • Facts & context about the user, their project, their preferences
    • What was built / changed, and where it lives
    • Open questions and next steps (TODOs)
    • Anything they explicitly said "remember this" Ignore small talk, dead ends, and anything already saved.
  2. Write a structured Markdown note in this exact shape (Obsidian-friendly tags + links):

    # Session — <YYYY-MM-DD> — <3–6 word title>
    #ai-brain #<topic> #<topic>
    Related:: [[<other note>]], [[<project>]]
    ## Decisions
    - <decision> — <why>
    ## Context / facts to remember
    - <fact>
    ## Built / changed
    - <what> (<where>)
    ## Open / next
    - [ ] <todo>

    Keep it tight and skimmable — this is for future retrieval, not prose.

  3. Save it to the vault via the Filesystem MCP: write the note to AI Brain/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md. If the AI Brain/ folder doesn't exist yet, create it first. Append-only — never overwrite a past session's note.

  4. Link it in. Add a one-line pointer to a AI Brain/MOC.md index (a map-of-content): - [[<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>]] — <one-line hook> so the brain stays browsable in Obsidian's graph.

  5. Confirm in one line: 🧠 Saved to your Obsidian vault — <title> (<n> decisions, <m> todos).

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At session start, or when the user references the past — RECALL

  1. Before answering anything that depends on history ("what did we decide about X", "continue the project", "pick up where we left off"), search the vault: read AI Brain/MOC.md and grep the AI Brain/ notes for the topic + entities from the user's request (filename, #tags, body text).
  2. Open only the relevant notes — never load the whole vault. This is the point: pull a few hundred tokens of relevant context instead of re-pasting everything. Follow [[wikilinks]] to related notes.
  3. Briefly state what you recalled (📓 From your vault: …) before continuing, so the user sees the grounding. If nothing relevant is found, say so and proceed fresh.

Rules

  • One vault folder (AI Brain/), append-only — never overwrite past sessions.
  • Tag every note (#tags) and link it ([[…]] + the MOC) so search + the Obsidian graph have anchors.
  • Recall is retrieval, not reload: fetch the minimum relevant notes. That's what keeps token cost low on long-running projects.
  • Never invent memories. If the vault has no answer, say "not in memory yet."
  • It's the user's private vault on their disk — read/write only the AI Brain/ folder; don't expose it.

Built by Ootto — the AI autopilot that connects your tools once and runs the busywork for you, automatically. Book a demo →

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

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/ai-brain of Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5263be7

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Questions about AI Brain

What does AI Brain do?

Give Claude a permanent, searchable long-term memory using an Obsidian vault as the store. AI Brain is an agent skill from Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills. Give Claude a permanent, searchable long-term memory using an Obsidian vault as the store.

When should I use AI Brain?

AI Brain fits situations like: save this session; tasks that involve Agent memory; tasks that involve Note-taking.

How do I install AI Brain in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill ai-brain -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ai-brain in Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills) into .claude/skills/ai-brain in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install AI Brain in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill ai-brain -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ai-brain in Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills) into .agents/skills/ai-brain in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use AI Brain 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 Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill ai-brain -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ai-brain, .gemini/skills/ai-brain, .github/skills/ai-brain and .opencode/skills/ai-brain in your project.

What does AI Brain need to run?

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

Does AI Brain access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: ootto.ai. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is AI Brain 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 AI Brain use?

AI Brain is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does AI Brain use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k 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 AI Brain?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with AI Brain: Obsidian Project Memory (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.6k stars), Solomd (zhitongblog/solomd, 1.2k stars), Nexus (ProfSynapse/nexus, 157 stars) and C Obsidian (daxaur/openpaw, 173 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains AI Brain?

Ootto-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills, which has 130 GitHub stars. The repository holds 52 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.