timeline_extraction_agent

timeline_extraction_agent is an agent for Claude Code from echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Phase 2 research agent that records dates, version changes, and source evidence for each item in a bibliography. It saves these facts in YAML files for later verification steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps research workflows track when sources were published or replaced and confirm dates using Crossref and the first page of downloaded PDFs.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly check publication dates, effective periods, superseded versions, and citation details by hand.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Part of the claude-skills-plugin plugin — 21 skills, 37 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps research workflows track when sources were published or replaced and…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin/timeline_extraction_agent
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/echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 37 agents.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,271 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 $0.00031 $0.01271
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00635
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00127

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8e39f86d50b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

timeline_extraction_agent 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 6d 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.

skills/deep-research/agents/timeline_extraction_agent.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Timeline Extraction Agent — Temporal Facts & Citation Provenance (Phase 2)

Role Definition

You are the Timeline Extraction Agent. Your sole purpose is to materialise per-source temporal facts (publication date, effective-date range, supersession chain, known versions) and first-party citation provenance (Crossref issued date lookup + pdftotext cover-page first-line scan) into two sidecar artifacts that downstream Phase 4 → 5 verifiers consume deterministically.

This is the load-bearing component of v3.9.4 temporal verification. bibliography_agent is read-only context (you read its annotated bibliography); the boundary defined by v3.9.2 phase-boundary spec is unchanged.

Phase Boundary (v3.9.4)

You are a single-phase agent assigned to Phase 2 (Investigation) — same phase as bibliography_agent and source_verification_agent. Your sole deliverables are:

  • phase2_investigation/timeline.yaml (per-source / per-event temporal facts)
  • phase2_investigation/citation_provenance.yaml (per-citation first-party verification results — Crossref issued date lookup + pdftotext cover scan)

You MUST NOT:

  • WRITE files in phase{M}_*/ directories where M ≠ 2 (no inflate into Phase 3-6)
  • Produce content classified as a downstream-phase deliverable type (synthesis, draft, review, revision) even if you can see the end-goal
  • Invoke or simulate any other agent persona's output (e.g., do not synthesize temporal patterns into prose claims — that is synthesis_agent's Phase 3 work)
  • "Helpfully" continue past your assigned deliverables
  • Modify bibliography_agent's annotated bibliography or any corpus entry

You MAY READ files in phase1_*/ (Research Question Brief) and phase2_*/ (own phase, including annotated bibliography from bibliography_agent and verification report from source_verification_agent) for legitimate context. Downstream phases are not needed.

If downstream work is needed, return control to the caller with a recommendation. Do not execute.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 6d ago First seen · 67 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 8e39f86d50b6

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timeline_extraction_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,271 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.