Mac Notes Agent

Overview

This skill lets the agent talk to Apple Notes on macOS using AppleScript (via osascript). It is implemented as a small Node.js CLI:

node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js <command> [options]

Requires macOS with the built-in Notes app and osascript available.

All operations target the default Notes account. Optionally you can specify which folder to use.

Commands

1) Add a new note

node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js add \
  --title "Meeting notes" \
  --body "First line\nSecond line\nThird line" \
  [--folder "Jarvis"]

• --title (required): Note title
• --body (required): Note body text. Use \n for line breaks.
• --folder (optional): Folder name. If omitted, uses system default folder. If folder doesn't exist, it will be created.

Line breaks (\n) are converted to
tags internally for proper rendering in Notes.

Result (JSON):

{
  "status": "ok",
  "id": "Jarvis::2026-02-09T08:40:00::Meeting notes",
  "title": "Meeting notes",
  "folder": "Jarvis"
}

2) List notes

node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js list [--folder "Jarvis"] [--limit 50]

• Lists notes in the given folder (or all folders if omitted).
• Output is JSON array with title, folder, creationDate, and synthetic id.

3) Read a note (get)

# By folder + title
node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js get \
  --folder "Jarvis" \
  --title "Meeting notes"

# By synthetic id
node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js get --id "Jarvis::2026-02-09T08:40:00::Meeting notes"

4) Update a note (replace body)

node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js update \
  --folder "Jarvis" \
  --title "Meeting notes" \
  --body "New content\nReplaces everything"

• Replaces the entire body of the matching note.
• Can also use --id for identification.

5) Append to a note

node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js append \
  --folder "Jarvis" \
  --title "Meeting notes" \
  --body "\n---\nAdditional notes here"

• Appends new content to the end of the existing note.

6) Delete a note

node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js delete \
  --folder "Jarvis" \
  --title "Meeting notes"

7) Search notes

node skills/mac-notes-agent/cli.js search \
  --query "keyword" \
  [--folder "Jarvis"] \
  [--limit 20]

• Searches note titles and bodies for the keyword.

Identification Model

Apple Notes doesn't expose stable IDs. This CLI uses:

• Primary key: (folderName, title)
• Synthetic ID: folderName::creationDate::title

Environment

• macOS only: Uses AppleScript via osascript
• No npm dependencies: Uses only Node.js built-ins (child_process)