·brain

Search and manage your second brain knowledge base. Use when the user asks about their notes, wants to find information, or needs to add/organize knowledge. Also use proactively before research, brainstorming, or planning tasks to pull relevant prior work, and after completing research or making decisions to deposit findings.

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Installation

$npx skills add https://github.com/hjewkes/agent-skills --skill brain

How to Install brain

Quickly install brain AI skill to your development environment via command line

  1. Open Terminal: Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.)
  2. Run Installation Command: Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/hjewkes/agent-skills --skill brain
  3. Verify Installation: Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw

Source: hjewkes/agent-skills.

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A CLI for managing a developer second brain with hybrid BM25 + vector search over markdown notes.

All commands are run via brain (ensure it's on PATH or use the full path to the CLI). Use --json flag on all commands when processing output programmatically.

| brain status --json | Database stats (note count, embeddings, types) | | brain stale --json | Notes past their review interval | | brain graph --json | Show note's connections | | brain index | Rebuild search index (slow — only when asked) | | brain template | Generate frontmatter template for a note type |

Search and manage your second brain knowledge base. Use when the user asks about their notes, wants to find information, or needs to add/organize knowledge. Also use proactively before research, brainstorming, or planning tasks to pull relevant prior work, and after completing research or making decisions to deposit findings. Source: hjewkes/agent-skills.

Facts (cite-ready)

Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.

Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/hjewkes/agent-skills --skill brain
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>_Productivity
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First Seen
2026-02-23
Updated
2026-03-11

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What is brain?

Search and manage your second brain knowledge base. Use when the user asks about their notes, wants to find information, or needs to add/organize knowledge. Also use proactively before research, brainstorming, or planning tasks to pull relevant prior work, and after completing research or making decisions to deposit findings. Source: hjewkes/agent-skills.

How do I install brain?

Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/hjewkes/agent-skills --skill brain Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw

Where is the source repository?

https://github.com/hjewkes/agent-skills