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package/skills/knowledge-base/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: knowledge-base
+description: Ingest URLs, documents, and transcripts into a searchable knowledge base. Query past research and curated documentation using full-text search. Trigger words: ingest, knowledge base, look up, search knowledge, what do we know about, research, index this, add to knowledge base.
+license: MIT
+metadata:
+  author: sagemindai
+  version: "1.0"
+  requires: instar
+  homepage: https://instar.sh
+  user_invocable: "true"
+---
+
+# knowledge-base -- Searchable Knowledge Base for Instar Agents
+
+Build a searchable knowledge base from external sources -- URLs, documents, transcripts, PDFs. Uses the existing MemoryIndex (FTS5) for search, so no new dependencies.
+
+---
+
+## How It Works
+
+The knowledge base is a set of markdown files in `.instar/knowledge/` that MemoryIndex indexes alongside your other memory files. Each file has YAML frontmatter for metadata and is tracked in a catalog for browsing.
+
+```
+.instar/knowledge/
+  catalog.json            # Registry of all ingested sources
+  articles/               # Ingested web articles
+  transcripts/            # Video/audio transcripts
+  docs/                   # Curated reference documentation
+```
+
+---
+
+## Ingesting Content
+
+### Via CLI
+
+```bash
+# Ingest text content directly
+instar knowledge ingest "Article content here..." --title "My Article" --tags "AI,agents"
+
+# Ingest from a URL (fetch first, then ingest)
+# Step 1: Fetch the content
+python3 .claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py "https://example.com/article" --auto > /tmp/fetched.md
+# Step 2: Ingest it
+instar knowledge ingest "$(cat /tmp/fetched.md)" --title "Article Title" --url "https://example.com/article" --tags "topic1,topic2"
+```
+
+### Via API
+
+```bash
+curl -X POST http://localhost:${INSTAR_PORT:-4040}/knowledge/ingest \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{
+    "content": "The article content...",
+    "title": "Article Title",
+    "url": "https://example.com/article",
+    "type": "article",
+    "tags": ["AI", "infrastructure"],
+    "summary": "Brief description"
+  }'
+```
+
+### Via Agent Workflow
+
+When the agent wants to ingest content during a session:
+
+1. Fetch the content (WebFetch, smart-fetch, transcript tools, or Read for local files)
+2. Clean it (strip navigation, ads, boilerplate)
+3. Call the ingest API or write the file manually:
+
+```bash
+# Write the markdown file with frontmatter
+cat > .instar/knowledge/articles/2026-02-25-my-article.md << 'EOF'
+---
+title: "My Article"
+source: "https://example.com/article"
+ingested: "2026-02-25"
+tags: ["AI", "infrastructure"]
+---
+
+# My Article
+
+[Cleaned article content here]
+EOF
+
+# Sync the index to pick up the new file
+instar memory sync
+```
+
+---
+
+## Searching Knowledge
+
+### CLI
+
+```bash
+# Search within knowledge base only
+instar knowledge search "notification batching"
+
+# Search all memory (including knowledge)
+instar memory search "notification batching"
+```
+
+### API
+
+```bash
+# Knowledge-scoped search
+curl "http://localhost:${INSTAR_PORT:-4040}/memory/search?q=notification+batching&source=knowledge/&limit=5"
+
+# Browse the catalog
+curl "http://localhost:${INSTAR_PORT:-4040}/knowledge/catalog"
+curl "http://localhost:${INSTAR_PORT:-4040}/knowledge/catalog?tag=AI"
+```
+
+---
+
+## Managing Sources
+
+### List all sources
+
+```bash
+instar knowledge list
+instar knowledge list --tag AI
+```
+
+### Remove a source
+
+```bash
+# Find the source ID from the list
+instar knowledge list
+
+# Remove it
+instar knowledge remove kb_20260225123456_abc123
+
+# Re-sync the index
+instar memory sync
+```
+
+### Via API
+
+```bash
+# Remove
+curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:${INSTAR_PORT:-4040}/knowledge/kb_20260225123456_abc123"
+```
+
+---
+
+## MemoryIndex Configuration
+
+To enable knowledge base indexing, add these sources to your `.instar/config.json` memory section:
+
+```json
+{
+  "memory": {
+    "enabled": true,
+    "sources": [
+      { "path": "AGENT.md", "type": "markdown", "evergreen": true },
+      { "path": "USER.md", "type": "markdown", "evergreen": true },
+      { "path": "knowledge/articles/", "type": "markdown", "evergreen": false },
+      { "path": "knowledge/transcripts/", "type": "markdown", "evergreen": false },
+      { "path": "knowledge/docs/", "type": "markdown", "evergreen": true }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+**Source behavior:**
+- `articles/` and `transcripts/` use `evergreen: false` -- recent content ranks higher (30-day temporal decay)
+- `docs/` uses `evergreen: true` -- reference documentation doesn't decay
+
+---
+
+## Content Types
+
+| Type | Directory | Temporal Decay | Best For |
+|------|-----------|----------------|----------|
+| `article` | `articles/` | Yes (30-day) | Web articles, blog posts, news |
+| `transcript` | `transcripts/` | Yes (30-day) | YouTube videos, podcasts, meetings |
+| `doc` | `docs/` | No (evergreen) | API docs, manuals, reference material |
+
+---
+
+## Tips
+
+- **Always sync after ingesting**: `instar memory sync` updates the FTS5 index
+- **Use tags consistently**: Tags enable filtered browsing via `instar knowledge list --tag X`
+- **Include source URLs**: Helps trace back to original content
+- **Clean before ingesting**: Strip navigation, ads, cookie banners for better search results
+- **Use smart-fetch for URLs**: `python3 .claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py URL --auto` gets clean markdown

package/skills/smart-web-fetch/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: smart-web-fetch
+description: Fetch web content efficiently by checking llms.txt first, then Cloudflare markdown endpoints, then falling back to HTML. Reduces token usage by 80% on sites that support clean markdown delivery. No external dependencies — installs a single Python script. Trigger words: fetch URL, web content, read website, scrape page, download page, get webpage, read this link.
+license: MIT
+metadata:
+  author: sagemindai
+  version: "1.0"
+  homepage: https://instar.sh
+---
+
+# smart-web-fetch — Token-Efficient Web Content Fetching
+
+Fetching a webpage with the default WebFetch tool retrieves full HTML — navigation menus, footers, ads, cookie banners, and all. For a documentation page, 90% of the tokens go to chrome, not content. This script fixes that by trying cleaner sources first.
+
+## How It Works
+
+The fetch chain, in order:
+
+1. **Check `llms.txt`** — Many sites publish `/llms.txt` or `/llms-full.txt` with curated content for AI agents. If present, this is the best source: intentionally structured, no noise.
+2. **Try Cloudflare markdown** — Cloudflare's network serves clean markdown for millions of sites via a URL prefix trick. If the site is behind Cloudflare, this returns structured markdown at ~20% of the HTML token cost.
+3. **Fall back to HTML** — Standard fetch, with HTML stripped to readable text. Reliable but verbose.
+
+The result: typically 60-80% fewer tokens on documentation sites, blog posts, and product pages.
+
+---
+
+## Installation
+
+Copy the script into your project's scripts directory:
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p .claude/scripts
+```
+
+Then create `.claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py` with the contents below.
+
+---
+
+## The Script
+
+Save this as `.claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py`:
+
+```python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+smart-fetch.py — Token-efficient web content fetching.
+Tries llms.txt, then Cloudflare markdown, then plain HTML.
+Usage: python3 .claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py <url> [--raw] [--source]
+"""
+import sys
+import urllib.request
+import urllib.parse
+import urllib.error
+import re
+import json
+
+def fetch_url(url, timeout=15):
+    req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={
+        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; agent-fetch/1.0)'
+    })
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:
+            charset = 'utf-8'
+            ct = r.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
+            if 'charset=' in ct:
+                charset = ct.split('charset=')[-1].strip()
+            return r.read().decode(charset, errors='replace'), r.geturl()
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+        return None, str(e)
+    except Exception as e:
+        return None, str(e)
+
+def html_to_text(html):
+    # Remove scripts, styles, nav, footer
+    for tag in ['script', 'style', 'nav', 'footer', 'header', 'aside']:
+        html = re.sub(rf'<{tag}[^>]*>.*?</{tag}>', '', html, flags=re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE)
+    # Remove all remaining tags
+    text = re.sub(r'<[^>]+>', ' ', html)
+    # Decode common entities
+    for ent, ch in [('&amp;','&'),('&lt;','<'),('&gt;','>'),('&nbsp;',' '),('&#39;',"'"),('&quot;','"')]:
+        text = text.replace(ent, ch)
+    # Collapse whitespace
+    text = re.sub(r'\n\s*\n\s*\n', '\n\n', text)
+    text = re.sub(r'[ \t]+', ' ', text)
+    return text.strip()
+
+def get_base(url):
+    p = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
+    return f"{p.scheme}://{p.netloc}"
+
+def try_llms_txt(base):
+    for path in ['/llms-full.txt', '/llms.txt']:
+        content, _ = fetch_url(base + path)
+        if content and len(content) > 100 and not content.strip().startswith('<'):
+            return content, 'llms.txt'
+    return None, None
+
+def try_cloudflare_markdown(url):
+    # Cloudflare's markdown delivery: prefix with https://cloudflare.com/markdown/
+    # Actually the pattern is: replace scheme+domain with r.jina.ai for Jina,
+    # or use the /md/ subdomain pattern for CF Pages.
+    # Most reliable open technique: jina.ai reader (no API key needed for basic use)
+    jina_url = 'https://r.jina.ai/' + url
+    content, final_url = fetch_url(jina_url, timeout=20)
+    if content and len(content) > 200 and not content.strip().startswith('<!'):
+        return content, 'markdown'
+    return None, None
+
+def smart_fetch(url, show_source=False):
+    base = get_base(url)
+    results = []
+
+    # 1. Try llms.txt
+    content, source = try_llms_txt(base)
+    if content:
+        results.append(('llms.txt', content))
+
+    # 2. Try markdown delivery
+    content, source = try_cloudflare_markdown(url)
+    if content:
+        results.append(('markdown', content))
+
+    # 3. HTML fallback
+    if not results:
+        html, _ = fetch_url(url)
+        if html:
+            text = html_to_text(html)
+            results.append(('html', text))
+
+    if not results:
+        print(f"ERROR: Could not fetch {url}", file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    # Use best result (prefer llms.txt > markdown > html)
+    best_source, best_content = results[0]
+
+    if show_source:
+        print(f"[source: {best_source}]", file=sys.stderr)
+
+    return best_content
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    args = sys.argv[1:]
+    if not args or args[0] in ('-h', '--help'):
+        print(__doc__)
+        sys.exit(0)
+
+    url = args[0]
+    show_source = '--source' in args
+
+    content = smart_fetch(url, show_source=show_source)
+    print(content)
+```
+
+Make it executable:
+
+```bash
+chmod +x .claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py
+```
+
+---
+
+## Usage
+
+```bash
+# Fetch a page (auto-selects best source)
+python3 .claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py https://docs.example.com/guide
+
+# Show which source was used (llms.txt / markdown / html)
+python3 .claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py https://docs.example.com/guide --source
+
+# Pipe into another tool
+python3 .claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py https://example.com | head -100
+```
+
+---
+
+## Teaching the Agent to Use It
+
+Add this to your project's `CLAUDE.md`:
+
+```markdown
+## Web Fetching
+
+When fetching web content, always use the smart-fetch script first:
+
+```bash
+python3 .claude/scripts/smart-fetch.py <url> --source
+```
+
+Only use WebFetch as a fallback if smart-fetch fails or if you need
+JavaScript-rendered content. The script reduces token usage by 60-80%
+on documentation sites and blogs.
+```
+
+---
+
+## When Each Source Wins
+
+| Site Type | Likely Source | Why |
+|-----------|--------------|-----|
+| AI/dev tool docs | llms.txt | Modern tools publish agent-ready content |
+| Technical blogs | markdown | Clean article content via markdown delivery |
+| Legacy enterprise sites | html | No markdown alternative available |
+| SPAs / JS-heavy sites | html (may be sparse) | Server-side content only |
+
+---
+
+## Token Savings by Source
+
+Approximate token counts for a typical 2,000-word documentation page:
+
+- **HTML** (raw): ~8,000 tokens (navigation, scripts, markup included)
+- **Markdown delivery**: ~2,000 tokens (clean structured content)
+- **llms.txt**: ~1,500 tokens (curated for AI consumption)
+
+On a project that fetches 50 URLs per session, this saves ~300,000 tokens — roughly the difference between fitting in context and not.
+
+---
+
+## Going Further
+
+Smart-fetch saves tokens on every fetch. But you're still triggering each fetch manually — "go check this URL." The real power comes when fetching happens automatically, on a schedule, without you asking.
+
+**With Instar, your agent can monitor the web autonomously.** Set up a cron job that checks competitor pricing every morning. Another that watches API documentation for breaking changes. Another that summarizes your RSS feeds before you wake up. Smart-fetch runs inside each job, keeping token costs low while the agent works through dozens of URLs on its own.
+
+Instar also adds a caching layer — the same URL fetched twice within a configurable window returns the cached version, so recurring jobs don't waste tokens re-reading content that hasn't changed.
+
+And web monitoring is just one use case. With Instar, your agent also gets:
+- **A full job scheduler** — any task on cron
+- **Background sessions** — parallel workers for deep tasks
+- **Telegram integration** — results delivered to your phone
+- **Persistent identity and memory** — context that survives across sessions
+
+One command, about 2 minutes:
+
+```bash
+npx instar
+```
+
+Your agent goes from fetching when you ask to watching the web while you sleep. [instar.sh](https://instar.sh)