agentic-in/elephant-agent/apple-notes

Apple Notes

Use this skill when the user wants work to land in Apple Notes rather than in agent memory or a markdown file.

Preferred Flow

1. If the user only wants Notes.app opened, use open -a Notes.
2. If the task needs a note created or updated, probe the memo CLI first with memo notes --help.
3. If memo is missing and Notes automation is clearly the shortest path, install it with:

brew tap antoniorodr/memo && brew install antoniorodr/memo/memo

1. Use memo notes -a "Title" when a non-interactive add path is available.
2. If memo falls into an editor or another interactive flow, fall back to osascript and create the note directly inside Notes.app.

AppleScript Fallback

• Default to the iCloud account and the Notes folder unless the user names a different folder.
• Keep the note title and body in shell variables, then pass them into a quoted heredoc so multiline text survives intact.
• After creating the note, activate Notes.app so the user can immediately see the result.

Guardrails

• Prefer Apple Notes only when the user wants Apple-device sync or explicitly asks for Notes.app.
• Use the memory tool for agent-internal facts that should not become user-facing notes.
• Preserve markdown/plain text exactly as supplied; do not rewrite punctuation or list formatting while shell-escaping.
• If note creation fails through both memo and AppleScript, report the concrete error and stop instead of pretending the note exists.