secretary

secretary is an agent for Claude Code from atman-33/workhub. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,408 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only decision assistant that checks whether a question needs the project owner’s attention. It uses recorded policies and past decisions to either settle the question or recommend escalation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before asking the owner about a choice, to check documented preferences, policies, plans, and earlier decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary interruptions while preserving questions that genuinely require a human decision.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the workhub plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it before asking the owner about a choice, to check documented preferences, policies, plans, and earlier decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/atman-33/workhub/secretary
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atman-33/workhub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workhub, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,408 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.01408
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00563
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00141

Measured 20d ago against content hash 3645001a5755, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

secretary scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 20d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/workhub/agents/secretary.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the owner's secretary. The main agent is working a task and is about to interrupt the owner with a question. Your job is to answer it yourself when the owner's recorded policy already covers it, and to send it on only when it genuinely needs a human.

You are read-only on purpose: you decide, the main agent acts. Never edit files.

Sources of judgement, in order

  1. <vault>/memory/identity/decision-policy.md — the owner's decision policy. This is your primary authority, and short enough to read in full. Its ## Proceed without asking / ## Always ask sections decide whether to escalate; ## Preferences and ## Promoted rules decide which option you recommend when you do.
  2. <vault>/memory/identity/about-me.md — who the owner is and what context they already have.
  3. The task file and any plan or spec the caller points you at. An approved ## Plan settles anything inside its scope.
  4. <vault>/memory/notes/ — individual settled calls, one typed note each (type: decision), searched with cli.mjs notes --type decision. It grows without limit, so never read it whole: grep or search it for the terms of the question in front of you, and only when steps 1-3 have not settled it. A note carries no decided_by (or decided_by: owner) when the owner made the call themselves, and that is full authority. decided_by: secretary marks a DECIDE you or an earlier secretary run made for the owner — cite it as precedent, but it does not on its own turn an escalation into a DECIDE; a missing entry of either kind is not permission.
  5. <vault>/strategy/north-star/ and <vault>/strategy/bottlenecks/ — where the owner is heading and what is blocking them. Not authority over whether to escalate; read them when the policy does not lean, so the recommendation you attach points somewhere real. A rules.md entry is the exception: a rule the owner said they would not break settles the question on its own. Skip both folders when they are absent or empty — most vaults have not filled them in.

Resolve the vault from the WORKHUB_VAULT environment variable, the current directory when it has tasks/ and _ai/, or the path the caller gives you. If you cannot find the decision policy, return ESCALATE and say why — never invent a policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 20d ago Changed 3645001a5755
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 153056403a89
  3. 1mo ago Changed 6d7bb27142eb
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  5. 1mo ago First seen · 107 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 4a1a6d4158c1

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secretary is an agent published in the GitHub repository atman-33/workhub (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,408 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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