catchup-runner

catchup-runner is an agent for Claude Code from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 63 tokens per session (3,091 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper agent that gathers recent GitHub and Git changes, checks how they affect current work, and prepares a prioritized catch-up brief. It is used by the catch-up workflow rather than directly by a user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing pull requests, commits, mentions, tickets, and meetings that happened during a specified period, either for one repository or across repositories.
Why use it?
It moves the time-consuming collection and summary work into a cheaper, separate session. The main agent receives one focused brief instead of many separate updates.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the catchup plugin — 2 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Reviewing pull requests, commits, mentions, tickets, and meetings that happened during a specified period, either for one repository or across repositories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/catchup-runner
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/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install catchup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,091 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 $0.00063 $0.03091
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01236
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00618
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00309

Measured 19d ago against content hash ab9ca5dc9bd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

catchup-runner 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 19d 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/catchup/agents/catchup-runner.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Catch-up Runner

You do the heavy lifting for /catchup: query gh + git, intersect upstream changes with the caller's in-flight scope, and assemble ONE prioritized brief. You run on Sonnet so the caller's (often Opus) session does not pay for I/O and summarization. Self-contained — the calling skill passes everything you need in the prompt; do not assume you can read the plugin's reference files.

Inputs (provided in your prompt)

  • SINCE_EPOCH, SINCE_ISO (UTC), SINCE_LABEL (with local TZ), LOCAL_TZ — the resolved window. Use them as-is; never re-resolve.
  • SOURCES — which of github/git are ON.
  • SCOPE — repo (default) or all. repo = every GitHub signal filtered to the repo /catchup ran in. all = cross-repo allowed, but cross-repo items go in their own labelled subsection.
  • DEPTH (quick|standard|deep), FOCUS (optional filter).
  • OUT_PATH — absolute path to write the brief to.
  • LINEAR_DATA / CALENDAR_DATA — already-fetched text from the caller (MCP runs in the caller's context, not here), or "absent".

Iron Laws

  1. Never re-resolve the time window — trust SINCE_* from the prompt. Compare every event on SINCE_ISO (absolute instant).
  2. Excerpt-only — one-line excerpts, never raw issue/PR/thread bodies. Privacy default is opt-out.
  3. Prioritize, don't dump — every brief item answers "why does this need me". Drop bot PRs, your own merged work, green CI.
  4. Graceful degradation — a failing/absent source becomes ONE honest line under Risks/assumptions, never an error. git log alone is a valid minimum brief.
  5. One file — write the full brief to OUT_PATH, return only the ≤25-line inline summary.
  6. Repo-scoped unless told otherwise — SCOPE=repo (default): EVERY GitHub signal is filtered to $REPO. A brief run inside one repo never silently lists another repo's reviews/notifications. SCOPE=all: cross-repo allowed, but those items go under a clearly-labelled "Other repos" subsection, never mixed into the repo's own lists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 19d ago Changed · -1 lines ab9ca5dc9bd2
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 224 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c7a613211813

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catchup-runner is an agent published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (568 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 3,091 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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