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NishikantaRay (@nishikantaray) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Attic Stash by nishikantaray — Agent Skill

Name: Attic Stash
Author: NishikantaRay

Attic Stash

Stash the current finding, result, plan or decision into .attic/ and reply with its handle. Use when the user says "stash this", "put this in the attic", "remember this", "save this for later", or when a finding is worth keeping and attic mode is active.

NishikantaRay Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Stash into the attic

First, in the same shell command as anything below, locate the script:

ATTIC_JS=$(ls -d "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"/plugins/cache/attic/attic/*/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js "$HOME"/.agents/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js .agents/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)

Argument: $ARGUMENTS (a title, a slug, or empty).

Decide what to stash: the most recent finding, result, plan or decision in this conversation. If the argument names something specific, stash that. If nothing obvious exists, ask in one line what to stash. Unsure whether it is worth keeping? Read $(dirname "$ATTIC_JS")/../references/what-to-stash.md.
Pick a kind (finding, decision, plan, output, note) and a specific kebab-case slug that will still make sense in a month.
Write the body to a temp file, then call the script. It handles the folder, frontmatter, index line, atomic write, and secret scan:

node "$ATTIC_JS" stash \
  --slug <slug> --kind <kind> --title "<title>" \
  --hook "<one line under 100 chars>" [--tags a,b] \
  [--decision-why "<why>"] --body-file <tmpfile>

An existing slug appends a dated update instead of overwriting. 4. Exit code 2 means a credential was detected and nothing was written. Redact the value, keep the location, retry. Never pass --force. 5. If the script cannot run at all (no Node, or the call is denied), fall back to writing the files yourself following $(dirname "$ATTIC_JS")/../references/item-format.md, and say in one line that the secret scan and atomic write were skipped. Never silently substitute hand-written files for the script. 6. Reply with exactly: Stashed `attic:<slug>` · <hook>.

---name: attic-stash-2description: Stash the current finding, result, plan or decision into .attic/ and reply with its handle. Use when the user says "stash this", "put this in the attic", "remember this", "save this for later", or when a finding is worth keeping and attic mode is active.license: MIT---# Stash into the atticFirst, in the same shell command as anything below, locate the script:```bashATTIC_JS=$(ls -d "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"/plugins/cache/attic/attic/*/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js "$HOME"/.agents/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js .agents/skills/attic/scripts/attic.js 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)```Argument: `$ARGUMENTS` (a title, a slug, or empty).1. Decide what to stash: the most recent finding, result, plan or decision in this conversation. If the argument names something specific, stash that. If nothing obvious exists, ask in one line what to stash. Unsure whether it is worth keeping? Read `$(dirname "$ATTIC_JS")/../references/what-to-stash.md`.2. Pick a `kind` (`finding`, `decision`, `plan`, `output`, `note`) and a specific kebab-case slug that will still make sense in a month.3. Write the body to a temp file, then call the script. It handles the folder, frontmatter, index line, atomic write, and secret scan:```bashnode "$ATTIC_JS" stash \ --slug <slug> --kind <kind> --title "<title>" \ --hook "<one line under 100 chars>" [--tags a,b] \ [--decision-why "<why>"] --body-file <tmpfile>``` An existing slug appends a dated update instead of overwriting.4. Exit code 2 means a credential was detected and nothing was written. Redact the value, keep the location, retry. Never pass `--force`.5. If the script cannot run at all (no Node, or the call is denied), fall back to writing the files yourself following `$(dirname "$ATTIC_JS")/../references/item-format.md`, and say in one line that the secret scan and atomic write were skipped. Never silently substitute hand-written files for the script.6. Reply with exactly: `` Stashed `attic:<slug>` · <hook> ``.

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