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Imported from JansenAnalytics/claudex (skills/bear-notes/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add JansenAnalytics/claudex --skill bear-notes. Copyright stays with the author.

Bear Notes

Name: bear-notes
Author: JansenAnalytics

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:

Open Bear → Help → API Token → Copy Token
Save it: echo "YOUR_TOKEN" > ~/.config/grizzly/token

Common Commands

Create a note

echo "Note content here" | grizzly create --title "My Note" --tag work
grizzly create --title "Quick Note" --tag inbox < /dev/null

Open/read a note by ID

grizzly open-note --id "NOTE_ID" --enable-callback --json

Append text to a note

echo "Additional content" | grizzly add-text --id "NOTE_ID" --mode append --token-file ~/.config/grizzly/token

List all tags

grizzly tags --enable-callback --json --token-file ~/.config/grizzly/token

Search notes (via open-tag)

grizzly open-tag --name "work" --enable-callback --json

Options

Common flags:

--dry-run — Preview the URL without executing
--print-url — Show the x-callback-url
--enable-callback — Wait for Bear's response (needed for reading data)
--json — Output as JSON (when using callbacks)
--token-file PATH — Path to Bear API token file

Configuration

Grizzly reads config from (in priority order):

CLI flags
Environment variables (GRIZZLY_TOKEN_FILE, GRIZZLY_CALLBACK_URL, GRIZZLY_TIMEOUT)
.grizzly.toml in current directory
~/.config/grizzly/config.toml

Example ~/.config/grizzly/config.toml:

token_file = "~/.config/grizzly/token"
callback_url = "http://127.0.0.1:42123/success"
timeout = "5s"

Notes

Bear must be running for commands to work
Note IDs are Bear's internal identifiers (visible in note info or via callbacks)
Use --enable-callback when you need to read data back from Bear
Some operations require a valid token (add-text, tags, open-note --selected)

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/jansenanalytics-claudex-bear-notes/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

jansenanalytics-claudex-bear-notes.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "jansenanalytics-claudex-bear-notes",
  "kind": "skill",
  "name": "bear-notes",
  "description": "Create, search, and manage Bear notes via grizzly CLI.",
  "publisher": "JansenAnalytics",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "general"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "bear",
      "grizzly-cli",
      "macos",
      "note-taking",
      "tags",
      "github"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "Create, search, and manage Bear notes via grizzly CLI."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "github",
      "repository": "https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex",
      "path": "skills/bear-notes/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "518e1dfbf96129765576553ef5c8d129a0ddd7a9",
      "url": "https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex/blob/518e1dfbf96129765576553ef5c8d129a0ddd7a9/skills/bear-notes/SKILL.md",
      "key": "JansenAnalytics/claudex/skills/bear-notes/SKILL.md"
    }
  },
  "instructions": "# Bear Notes\n\nUse `grizzly` to create, read, and manage notes in Bear on macOS.\n\nRequirements\n\n- Bear app installed and running\n- For some operations (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), a Bear app token (stored in `~/.config/grizzly/token`)\n\n## Getting a Bear Token\n\nFor operations that require a token (add-text, tags, open-note --selected), you need an authentication token:\n\n1. Open Bear → Help → API Token → Copy Token\n2. Save it: `echo \"YOUR_TOKEN\" > ~/.config/grizzly/token`\n\n## Common Commands\n\nCreate a note\n\n```bash\necho \"Note content here\" | grizzly create --title \"My Note\" --tag work\n",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 523
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/jansenanalytics-claudex-bear-notes/manifest?version=1.0.0

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