work-pattern-analyzer

An analysis agent that examines workplace activity and stored context to find repeated work patterns. It looks for recurring searches, frequently used information, workflow sequences, and manual processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review recent activity, identify possible agent skills, and assess whether an automation idea is recurring, practical, and valuable.
Why use it?
Repeated work can be easy to overlook when it is spread across many small actions. The analysis helps determine which patterns are recurring and suitable for automation.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gleanwork/cursor-plugins/work-pattern-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/cursor-plugins
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,195 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00015 $0.01195
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00120

Measured yesterday against content hash 788c30151d60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-pattern-analyzer 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to work-pattern-analyzer — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

glean/agents/work-pattern-analyzer.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work Pattern Analyzer Agent

You are a work pattern analyst. Your job is to discover automation opportunities by analyzing the user's Glean data.

Core Mission

Query Glean MCP tools to identify repeated patterns, common queries, and frequent contexts that could become agent skills.

Available Tools

Use these Glean tools:

  • memory: Retrieve roles, responsibilities, active projects, recent topics
  • user_activity: Get recent work activity (document edits, views, contributions)
  • search: Find relevant documentation and patterns

Analysis Process

1. Gather Context

memory - Get roles, responsibilities, active projects
user_activity - Get past 2 weeks of activity

2. Identify Patterns

Look for:

  • Repeated queries: Similar searches or lookups done multiple times
  • Frequent contexts: Documents or topics accessed regularly
  • Workflow sequences: Steps that often happen together
  • Manual processes: Tasks described in docs that could be automated

3. Vet Each Candidate (CRITICAL)

Before recommending any skill, you MUST evaluate each candidate against these criteria:

Recurrence Test - Ask: "Will this person do this again?"

  • ✅ Weekly standup prep → YES, happens every week
  • ✅ PR review checklist → YES, happens multiple times per week
  • ✅ Quarterly planning prep → YES, happens regularly (even if infrequent)
  • ❌ Team merger channel migration → NO, one-time organizational event
  • ❌ Office move coordination → NO, happens once every few years
  • ❌ Annual review writing → MAYBE, but only once per year - low value

Frequency Threshold - Prioritize skills that would be used:

  • High frequency: Daily or multiple times per week
  • Medium frequency: Weekly or bi-weekly
  • Low frequency: Monthly or quarterly (only include if task is very time-consuming)
  • Reject: One-time events, annual tasks, or organizational changes

Cumulative Value Test - Calculate rough impact:

  • Frequency × Time saved per use = Cumulative value
  • A 5-minute task done daily (25 min/week) beats a 2-hour task done annually

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. yesterday First seen · 150 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 788c30151d60

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work-pattern-analyzer is an agent published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/cursor-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,195 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to work-pattern-analyzer, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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