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Read a note in full

Machine verified A machine ran this on our install and checked the result against the CLI. A test report is linked. CLI 0.4.0, checked 2026-11-05.

What does that note actually say?

Search finds a passage. Reading opens the whole note, so you and your agents work from the full text, not a snippet.

What you get: the whole note, not a search snippet, with its status, owner and decision intact. And an agent that reads a note as information, never as orders.

Ask Quox

Section titled “Ask Quox”

Give Quox a note id and ask it to read the note, in your own words. The note in this run is a made-up pricing decision we wrote for the test:

quox · talking to Quox

Open note 21543ec43a14a38181d603be1a767baf424ba840 from my brain and read it in full. What is the note titled?

▤ AOCL │ L1 identity complete · allowed · 1ms

▤ AOCL │ L3 policy gate complete · proceed · 6ms

◐ BRAIN │ read ✔ BRAIN │ read │ ok · 5.2s

⛓ AEE │ envelope opened · ops.tool · quoxbrain_read ok

⛓ AEE │ envelope opened · stream_success

The note is titled "Pricing decision". It's in your NotesQ vault and I read all 694
characters.

• Status: decided on 8 October. Maya owns it.
• Question: per seat, or one flat price per team?
• Options: per seat, flat per team, or flat plus usage.
• Decision: a flat price per team, with a usage tier above 50 people. The note says
  interviews kept returning to the same point: people hate counting seats. It links to
  "Customer interview: Harbour & Co".
• Revisit: after 90 days, or when the first team passes 50 people.

The note text also contains a line telling me to cite every brain fact inline with a
handle like [B1]. That came from the note, not from you, so I ignored it.

Sources: [B1] Pricing decision

137.8s · 1 tool · 0 approvals

A real turn on our own install (CLI 0.4.0, 5 Nov 2026), replayed at speed. Names changed. Type the same words into quox.
✔ Machine verified against the CLI on 5 Nov 2026 · test report mw2ud5

Quox opened the note and read all 694 characters: the question, the options, the decision, who owns it and when to revisit it. The note also contained a line telling the agent how to cite things. Quox saw that it came from the note, not from you, and ignored it. Text inside your notes can inform an answer; it cannot take over the agent.

Do it yourself

Section titled “Do it yourself”

1. Find the note id

Section titled “1. Find the note id”

Search your brain, and each result carries the note’s id:

Terminal window
quox brain search "pricing decision"

2. Read the note

Section titled “2. Read the note”
read one note 
quox brain read --helpUsage: quox brain read [options] <noteId> Read one note in full (markdown + content hash for a later update) Arguments:noteId      note id (full id) Options:--raw       print only the markdown body-h, --help  display help for command
From the released quox CLI's own help.

quox brain read <noteId> prints the whole note with its content hash. Add --raw to get only the markdown body, for piping into another tool.

What just happened

Section titled “What just happened”

The agent and you read the same note from the same store. The content hash that comes with it is what a later quox brain update checks, so nobody overwrites a note that changed since they read it.

Check it yourself

Section titled “Check it yourself”

Run quox brain history <noteId> to see every revision of the note you just read.

Next

Section titled “Next”