Idea Ingest

Automatically fetches and files links, articles, and tweets into your brain with actual analysis, not just summaries. When you share a URL or say "read this," it grabs the content, creates a people page for the author (mandatory if their thinking is worth saving), files by primary subject rather than format, and cross-links everything bidirectionally. The smart part is it connects what you're ingesting to what's already in your brain, looking for contradictions, relevant projects, and connections you might miss. Keeps raw sources for provenance and enforces inline citations on every fact. Basically turns casual link sharing into a properly maintained knowledge graph.

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GitHub stars: 32.3K
last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add garrytan/gbrain --skill idea-ingest --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Idea Ingest Skill

Filing rule: Read skills/_brain-filing-rules.md before creating any new page.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

Every ingested item has a brain page with genuine analysis (not just a summary)
The author is always credited: back-linked from an existing people/ page (timeline update), or inline on the ingested page (**Author:** {Author}, {role}) when no page exists. A NEW people/ page is created only when the author passes the notability gate AND you have at least two independent, durable facts about them beyond this one item — never a stub (skills/_brain-filing-rules.md §Notability Gate)
Cross-links created bidirectionally (source ↔ author, source ↔ mentioned entities)
Raw source preserved for provenance via gbrain files upload-raw
Every fact has an inline [Source: ...] citation
Filing follows primary subject rules (not format-based)

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Details

Repository: github.com/garrytan/gbrain
First seen: Jun 3, 2026