archive-crawler SKILL.md skillA
archive-crawler 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/archive-crawler@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- garrytan/gbrain
- Path
skills/archive-crawler/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 2, 2026
- Size
- 11,426 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31,587
- License
- MIT
Universal archivist for personal file archives (Dropbox/B2/Gmail-takeout/local-mount/hard-drive-dump). Filters for high-value content (the user's own writing, ideas, relationships) and surfaces it interactively. REFUSES TO RUN without an explicit gbrain.yml `archive-crawler.scan_paths:` allow-list.
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
# archive-crawler — The Universal Archivist
> **Convention:** see [conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md) for
> citation rules, exact-phrasing requirements when capturing the user's
> reactions, and back-link enforcement.
>
> **Convention:** see [_brain-filing-rules.md](../_brain-filing-rules.md) —
> this skill is **schema-generic**: it reads the user's filing rules from
> the rules JSON instead of hardcoding any specific era / archive layout.
## Safety gate (REQUIRED, no exceptions)
archive-crawler refuses to run unless `archive-crawler.scan_paths:` is
explicitly set in `gbrain.yml`. This is a deliberate safety fence against
the agent over-scoping a scan and ingesting sensitive content (tax PDFs,
medical records, credentials).
```yaml
# gbrain.yml — the allow-list is mandatory
archive-crawler:
scan_paths:
- ~/Documents/writing/
- ~/Dropbox/Archive/
- /mnt/backup/old-letters/
# Optional deny-list inside the allow-list:
# deny_paths:
# - ~/Documents/finances/
# - ~/Documents/medical/
```
If `scan_paths` is empty or missing, the skill exits with:
```
archive-crawler: refusing to run. No `archive-crawler.scan_paths:` allow-list
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/archive-crawler@sha256:d93174bfc276ce78The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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_vh7kpje24i6spmai)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 2, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 79 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-10-07 | 590bb9a | 11,426 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-10-04 | 739e5cc | 11,425 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-05-02 | c2ae4db | 10,660 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 (11426 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 · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vh7kpje24i6spmai GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/archive-crawler GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d93174bfc276ce78c1d6283c213b7c7006978075603d7d333c7e345fd63da979
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.