timeline_extraction_agent

timeline_extraction_agent is an agent for Claude Code from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that records dates, version changes, and citation origins for sources used in a research project. It creates supporting records for later checks of publication timing, source versions, and citation provenance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify source dates, trace citation evidence, record version families, and provide temporal facts to later research-review stages.
Why use it?
It helps prevent errors caused by using the wrong paper version, publication date, or citation record in a multi-stage research process.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Good fit Use it to verify source dates, trace citation evidence, record version families, and provide temporal facts to later research-review stages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/timeline_extraction_agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 1,872 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 $0.01872
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00936
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00187

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3c8122dfacc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

Academic and Scientific Research/academic-deep-research/agents/timeline_extraction_agent.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 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), first-party citation provenance (Crossref issued date lookup + pdftotext cover-page first-line scan), and academic citation version-family records into 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)
  • phase2_investigation/version_records.yaml (academic citation version-family evidence for preprint -> proceedings -> journal chains; Kong #258)

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 7d ago First seen · 100 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 3c8122dfacc6

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timeline_extraction_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,872 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 2026-09-03.