ctx-kb-note

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

1. Verify pre-write gates.

2. 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.

3. 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.