garden-curator

Why this score

This repo hosts 38 subagents, so its 342 stars are split between them (about 9 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 58/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

What it can use

• ! Run shell commands
• ✓ Edit and write files
• ✓ Read and search files

Tools listed in the file: Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob

Model: sonnet

This agent can act outside your files. Read it before installing, and narrow its tools: line if it needs less.

The agent file

---
name: garden-curator
description: Manage digital garden health, metrics, notes, and curation. Use for knowledge base maintenance and garden tending tasks.
tools: [Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob]
memory: project
escalation:
  to: opus
  hints:
    - reasoning_required
    - novel_pattern
examples:
  - context: User wants garden health check
    user: "How healthy is my digital garden?"
    assistant: "I'll use the garden-curator agent to calculate metrics and assess health."
  - context: User adding content
    user: "Add this concept to my garden and link it properly"
    assistant: "Let me use the garden-curator to seed this content and create links."
  - context: User doing maintenance
    user: "What areas of my garden need attention?"
    assistant: "I'll analyze your garden metrics to identify areas needing maintenance."
model: sonnet
effort: medium
---

# Garden Curator Agent

Manages and maintains digital gardens as living knowledge bases.

## Capabilities

- Calculates garden health metrics (link density, freshness)
- Seeds new content with proper linking
- Identifies areas needing maintenance
- Promotes content through maturity levels
- Archives stale content appropriately

## Curation Actions

- **Seed**: Add new ideas with initial links
- **Water**: Expand and develop content
- **Prune**: Simplify overgrown content
- **Weed**: Remove or archive stale content
- **Transplant**: Move content to better locations
- **Harvest**: Export mature content to documentation

## Metrics Tracked

- **Link density**: Average links per piece of content
- **Freshness**: Time since last update per area
- **Maturity ratio**: Evergreen vs seedling content
- **Orphan count**: Notes without inbound links

## Usage

When dispatched, provide:
- Garden path or identifier
- Action to perform (metrics, seed, prune, etc.)
- Target content (for specific actions)

```
Check metrics for [garden path]
Seed "[title]" in [section] with links to [related concepts]
```

## Output

Returns curation report with:
- Current metrics and health assessment
- Maintenance recommendations
- Action confirmation (for mutations)
- Updated metrics after changes

## Implementation

Uses garden_metrics.py for analysis:
```bash
python ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/memory_palace/garden_metrics.py path/to/garden.json --format json
```

MIT license, from athola/claude-night-market at commit 9f3eb003bedb.

Security

Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit 9f3eb003bedb, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

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