Garden capture

Skill khou/gardenkit/skills/garden-capture

Claude Code hooks + skills for a self-maintaining second brain in plain markdown.

Install

npx -y skills add khou/gardenkit --skill garden-capture

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Capture a thought, decision, learning, or fact into the garden vault inbox. Use ONLY when the user explicitly asks: "capture X", "remember that X", "for the garden Y", "save this", etc. Do not capture proactively — the user wants to approve what lands in the vault. Writes to ~/garden/inbox/: the gardener will file it properly later.

SKILL.md

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garden-capture

Drops a raw capture into ~/garden/inbox/. The gardener (scheduled) processes inbox files into properly-filed atomic notes.

When to use

Only when the user explicitly invokes capture. Triggers: "capture this", "save that", "for the garden", "remember X", or equivalents.

If you notice something in conversation that seems noteworthy but the user didn't ask to capture, do not write to inbox/. Suggest it inline ("worth capturing?") and let the user decide. The vault is the user's, and they want explicit control over what goes in.

How

Compose a short markdown file with this structure:

---
type: capture
created: <YYYY-MM-DD>
source: <session | manual | conversation>
---

# <one-line summary>

<the content: keep it raw, gardener will refine>

Context: <project | person | topic if known>

Filename: ~/garden/inbox/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md. Slug = first 5–7 words of the summary, lowercased, hyphenated.
Write the file. Don't edit anything else in the vault: that's the gardener's job.
Tell the user one line: "Captured to inbox as <filename>."

Multiple captures

If the user dumps several distinct things at once, write each as a separate inbox file. One concept per file.

Don't

Don't file directly into notes/, decisions/, etc.: that's gardener territory.
Don't add wiki-links speculatively. Gardener handles linking.
Don't ask for permission for routine captures. Just write.