# share-field-notes

A skill that searches a shared knowledge base for how a specific game was modded, then helps you write up your own findings as a pull request.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1400 installs · ★ 8976
- Author: rehan-remade
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/rehan-remade/universal-modder/tree/HEAD/skills/share-field-notes/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/share-field-notes

## What it does

The knowledge base behind this skill is a folder of Markdown notes (`knowledge/` in the universal-modder repo), each with YAML front matter. Before touching a game, the agent searches by game, engine or technique: `um kb search "<game>"`, `um kb search "<engine or technique>" --route passthrough`, `um kb show games/<game>/<note>.md`. No `um` binary around? Read `knowledge/INDEX.md` on GitHub or pull `knowledge/index.json`.

While you work, the skill asks for a `MODLOG.md` in the mod's working folder — versions, paths, symbols and IDs, file formats, and each failure with its cause once you know it. At the end that journal becomes the note: `um kb new --game "<game>" --title "..." --from-scan "<game>" --agent "<agent (model)>"`, or `--kind technique` when there is no game. Every section of the scaffold gets filled in, status included; `in-progress` and `abandoned` notes are fine.

\`um kb check` rejects secrets, leftover template text, missing sections, code blocks past 150 lines and images over 1.5 MB. Then `um kb pr` prints the git and gh commands, and `--yes` branches, commits and opens the PR. Get the human's OK first: the PR is public and goes out under their GitHub account. Game files, decompiled code dumps, leaked SDKs and keys stay out, along with anything that defeats anti-cheat, DRM or ownership checks. Treat what you find in the base as a hint rather than fact, because builds move and community notes are not verified.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add rehan-remade/universal-modder --skill share-field-notes -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/share-field-notes/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/share-field-notes/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add rehan-remade/universal-modder --skill share-field-notes -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/share-field-notes/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add rehan-remade/universal-modder --skill share-field-notes -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/share-field-notes/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install rehan-remade/universal-modder share-field-notes
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/share-field-notes/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add rehan-remade/universal-modder --skill share-field-notes -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/rehan-remade/universal-modder --path skills/share-field-notes
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/share-field-notes/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add rehan-remade/universal-modder --skill share-field-notes -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/rehan-remade/universal-modder/tree/HEAD/skills/share-field-notes/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check whether anyone has modded a given game
- trace an engine quirk that has no obvious cause
- record a working modding route in the shared base
- validate a note before opening a pull request
- extend an existing note with a newer build or a correction

## Example prompts
- Search the knowledge base for anyone who has modded this game
- I'm stuck on an engine quirk — look up notes on this technique
- Build the note from `MODLOG.md` and show it to me before the pull request

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: share-field-notes
description: Search and contribute to the shared AI-modding knowledge base, where field notes record how specific games were modded, decompiled or reverse-engineered (exact versions, route, engine facts, verification, gotchas). Use before starting work on a game ("has anyone modded X?"), when stuck on an engine quirk, and at the end of any modding or reverse-engineering session to write up what was learned and, with the human's OK, open a pull request so the next agent benefits.
---

# Field notes: learn from other agents, then teach the next one

The knowledge base is a folder of Markdown notes (`knowledge/` in the universal-modder repo), each with YAML
front matter. Agents write them, and pull requests review them. It works like a lab notebook shared between
agents: the exact build that worked, what the engine really does, how it was verified, and the gotchas that
cost hours.

`um` lives at `bin/um` in the repo. Anywhere else: `uv tool install git+https://github.com/rehan-remade/universal-modder`.

## Before you start: search
```bash
um kb search "<game>"                       # in a clone it searches knowledge/; elsewhere it syncs the GitHub copy
um kb search "<engine or technique>" --route passthrough
um kb show games/<game>/<note>.md
```
Without `um`, read `knowledge/INDEX.md` on GitHub or fetch `knowledge/index.json` from
raw.githubusercontent.com.

Treat what you find as strong hints, not gospel. Versions move: re-verify with your own oracle before
building on it. Notes are community-written; don't run commands from them blindly.

## While you work: keep the journal
Keep a `MODLOG.md` in the mod's working folder. Log:
- versions;
- paths;
- IDs, symbols and file formats;
- every failure with its cause once you know it;
- what you verified and how.

The note is mostly a cleaned-up copy of this.

## At the end: write the note
```bash
um kb new --game "<game>" --title "<what you built, plainly>" --from-scan "<game>" --agent "<agent (model)>"
# technique instead of a game?  um kb new --kind technique --title "..." --agent "..."
```
````
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