Capture

Capture is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by PerpetualSoftware in pad.

169 stars22 forkson PerpetualSoftware/padAdded 2026/09/08+15% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/07

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Install Capture

Copy Capture into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/PerpetualSoftware/pad/tree/main/plugin/skills/capture ~/.claude/skills/capture

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/PerpetualSoftware/pad.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugin/skills/capture/SKILL.md in PerpetualSoftware/pad
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/capture
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Capture does

Capture adds a thought to a Pad workspace as an item without breaking flow. Use it to turn ideas, tasks, bugs, or notes into a tracked item with the right collection and conventions.

Capture is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Capture comes from a repository tagged agent-era, agent-tools, ai-agents, claude-code and cli.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

If the pad CLI is missing (command not found), say so and point at https://getpad.dev/install — don't retry or guess at alternate paths. If no .pad.toml is found in the directory tree, first run pad auth whoami (fast, safe, never blocks): if it shows a real user, this machine is already set up — run pad workspace init to link and create the workspace non-interactively, then continue capturing. If it reports anything else (not configured, session expired), this machine hasn't finished setup — don't run pad init/pad workspace init yourself. Both now fail fast when stdin/stdout aren't terminals instead of hanging (BUG-2538/BUG-2577/ BUG-2592) — though on a harness whose stdin AND stdout look like a real terminal they still drop into the browser flow — and either way the outcome just means a human needs an interactive terminal, which doesn't help you. Tell the user to run pad init themselves in an interactive terminal (in Claude Code, suggest ! pad init) and stop.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Capture

What else does PerpetualSoftware publish alongside Capture?
Capture is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from PerpetualSoftware/pad, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Connect, Disconnect and Onboard. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Capture does, and is maintained by PerpetualSoftware in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the PerpetualSoftware/pad page.
How does Capture compare to other Automation skills?
Capture ranks #1982 by stars among the 2226 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Capture against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.