bear-notes
The bear-notes skill provides an interface to create, search, and manage notes in the Bear application on macOS using the grizzly CLI tool.
Is bear-notes safe to install?
Review the source first: our audit of bear-notes's source files found 6 shell commands, 1 external URL, file reads and writes (high risk). Every command and URL listed appears verbatim in the skill's source. The skill executes shell commands via the grizzly binary and reads/writes to local configuration files including API tokens stored at ~/.config/grizzly/token.
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Who is this skill for?
macOS users who utilize the Bear note-taking application and want to automate note management via CLI.
What can you do with it?
- Create new notes with specific titles and tags.
- Append text to existing notes.
- List all tags present in Bear.
- Search and open notes by tag or ID.
- Retrieve note data in JSON format.
How good is this skill?
Quality score: 9/10. The documentation clearly outlines installation, configuration, and command usage. It specifies requirements and security implications for token management.
What does the skill file contain?
# Bear Notes Use `grizzly` to create, read, and manage notes in Bear on macOS. Requirements - Bear app installed and running - For some operations (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), a Bear app token (stored in `~/.config/grizzly/token`) ## Getting a Bear Token For operations that require a token (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), you need an authentication token: 1. Open Bear -> Help -> API Token -> Copy Token 2. Save it: `echo "YOUR_TOKEN" > ~/.config/grizzly/token` ## Common Commands Create a note ```bash echo "Note content here" | grizzly create --title "My Note" --tag wo...
Frequently asked questions
What are the system requirements for this skill?
The skill requires macOS, the Bear application, and the grizzly CLI tool installed via Go.
How does the skill authenticate with Bear?
The skill uses an API token obtained from the Bear application, which is stored in a file at ~/.config/grizzly/token.
Which operations require an API token?
Adding text to notes, listing tags, and opening selected notes require an API token.
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