| name | ctx-kb-note |
| description | Lightweight capture into .context/ingest/findings.md. Single argument is the note text. Never writes to a topic page or to evidence-index.md. The pipeline's ad-hoc escape hatch for 'park this for the next ingest'. |
Append a short note to .context/ingest/findings.md so a later
/ctx-kb-ingest pass can pick it up. The pipeline's escape
hatch for "I want to remember this, but I'm not running a full
ingest right now." No closeout, no ledger update, no
topic-page edit, no EV-### minting. Just typed memory landing
in one well-known file.
When to Use
- The user says "drop a note", "capture this for the next
ingest", "park this finding".
- A conversation surfaces a fact, link, or observation that
should land in the kb later but does not justify a full
ingest pass right now.
When NOT to Use
- The user has sources to ingest (
/ctx-kb-ingest).
- The user is asking a content question (
/ctx-kb-ask).
- The note is actually a task / decision / learning /
convention for the code-dev side; use the matching
canonical-capture path instead.
- The note is empty (refuse-on-empty).
Input
A single argument: the note text. Free-form prose. No flags.
Refuse-on-Empty
If the invocation supplied no note text, return exactly:
no note text provided; pass the note inline.
Stop. The CLI enforces this independently.
Pre-Write Gates
.context/ missing → suggest ctx init and stop..context/ingest/ missing → suggest ctx init --upgrade
and stop.
Kb scope declaration is not required; notes land pre-scope.
Process
-
Verify pre-write gates.
-
Append the note to .context/ingest/findings.md as a
single bulleted line, prefixed with the UTC timestamp
(RFC-3339), short SHA, and branch:
- 2026-05-16T14:32:11Z sha=88d52870 branch=main
| <note text>
If findings.md does not exist, create it with a brief
header explaining its purpose.
-
No closeout. Notes are intentionally lightweight; the
audit trail is the file itself.
Anti-Patterns
- Writing a topic page or minting
EV-### from this skill.
- Skipping the timestamp + provenance prefix; the audit
trail depends on it.
- Hand-editing prior entries to "consolidate" them. Append-only.
