idea-vault skillA
idea-vault is agent-read markdown (skill) from jovesun-lab/whetstone: Cross-project idea capture and review. A notebook-with-reminders that logs the user's ideas, plans, and checklists across every project, in one plain-markdown file. Use this skill whenever the conversation contains a new idea, plan, or intention the user might want to save for later, and whenever a project milestone, task completion, or session wrap-up is a natural moment to review or capture ideas. Triggers on: new idea, good idea, plan to do, I want to, we should, wouldn't it be cool if, next .
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Idea Vault
A lightweight, cross-project notebook for capturing ideas the user wants to come back
to — with checklists, priority, status, and optional reminders. The data lives in one
plain-markdown file outside any single project, so ideas from different projects all
land in the same place.
---
## Vault location
**Default data file:** `~/IdeaVault/ideas.md`
**Default archive file:** `~/IdeaVault/archive.md`
On first use: check the default location. If no vault exists there, ask the user ONCE
where the vault should live (accepting the default is fine), create the files from the
templates below, and remember the chosen path — in your persistent memory or the user's
agent config file, if your harness has one. From then on, always read and write that
path. Never scatter vault files per project: one vault, every project.
---
## Entry schema
Each idea is one block in `ideas.md`, separated by `---`. Newest entries go on top.
```markdown
## [YYYY-MM-DD] Idea title
- **Project:** {project name or "General"}
- **Status:** new | planned | in-progress | done | archived
- **Priority:** high | medium | low
- **Effort:** S | M | L
- **Tags:** #tag1 #tag2
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How to install
mdr add jovesun-lab/whetstone/idea-vault@git:20260922.b8ae1f7mdr add jovesun-lab/whetstone/idea-vault@sha256:e7cc4b760733e9c5Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ronnm4puoeo3hq5c)
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Versions
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 (7921 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
jovesun-lab/whetstone · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ronnm4puoeo3hq5c GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jovesun-lab/whetstone/idea-vault GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e7cc4b760733e9c5cd2236c44c08ee64b8569ebbc25426edbcc8b0068d5fd221
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