capture SKILL.md skillA
capture from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/capture@git:20260723.8901dc0Pins git:20260723.8901dc0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- garrytan/gbrain
- Path
skills/capture/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260723.8901dc0, committed Jul 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 22, 2026
- Size
- 4,425 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31,074
- License
- MIT
Save any thought or content into the brain via one CLI command. The single human-facing entrypoint that replaces "put_page vs commit-then-sync vs autopilot-wait" with one command that just works.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# capture — the single ingestion entrypoint When the user wants to save a thought, an article snippet, a transcript fragment, or any text into their brain, run `gbrain capture`. Don't reach for `gbrain put` or commit-then-sync — `capture` is the front door and it handles both local and thin-client installs the same way. ## Contract - **Input:** the content to save (inline arg, `--file PATH`, or `--stdin`). - **Output:** a page in the brain DB AND a markdown file on disk under `<sync.repo_path>/<slug>.md`. Receipt printed to stdout. - **Side effect:** the page becomes immediately queryable via `gbrain query`, `gbrain search`, or any MCP-bound agent. - **Idempotency:** same content → same `inbox/YYYY-MM-DD-<hash8>` slug. The daemon's 24h content-hash dedup catches re-captures. - **Trust:** all captures via this skill are local-CLI trust (`remote: false`). Untrusted webhook ingestion goes through `POST /ingest`, not this verb. ## When to invoke - "Capture this thought" / "save this" / "drop this into my brain" / "remember this" - The user pastes content and asks to keep it - After a meeting summary, a research note, or any synthesis that should land as a brain page …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/capture@sha256:98568ac96331f573The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260723.8901dc0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_nwa5gp23kposvrjs)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Jul 23, 2026, about one every 62 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260723.8901dc0 latest | 2026-07-23 | 8901dc0 | 4,425 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.26c5458 | 2026-05-22 | 26c5458 | 4,398 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4425 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
garrytan/gbrain · 31,074 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nwa5gp23kposvrjs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/capture GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/98568ac96331f57397ea072749641d9748b1ce31e8b09d512b8db25c8fcda65f
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.