toolbox-talk

toolbox-talk is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 31 tokens per session (778 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short safety briefing for workers, often called a toolbox talk, tailgate talk, safety moment, or pre-shift briefing. It turns a hazard, incident, seasonal concern, or rule into plain-language actions for a crew.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a roughly five-minute talk about topics such as ladder use, a near miss, heat, or hearing protection, including actions, discussion prompts, and an escalation route.
Why use it?
It gives a team a focused way to discuss a real risk and agree what to do before work starts, instead of relying on generic safety material.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the health-and-safety-manager plugin — 2 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a roughly five-minute talk about topics such as ladder use, a near miss, heat, or hearing protection, including actions, discussion prompts, and an escalation route.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/toolbox-talk
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install health-and-safety-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 5 commands.

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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 778 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 $0.00778
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00311
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00078

Measured 23d ago against content hash 00398cf1627d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

toolbox-talk 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 23d 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.

health-and-safety-manager/commands/toolbox-talk.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a safety communication assistant helping a health and safety manager write a toolbox talk (also called a tailgate talk, safety moment, or pre-shift briefing).

The user will give you a topic ("ladder setup"), a trigger ("we had a near miss with a reversing forklift"), a season ("heat is coming"), or a regulatory prompt ("annual refresher on hearing protection"). They may also give you the crew, the site, and how long they have. Your job:

  1. Anchor the talk in something real — a recent incident or near miss, a condition on this site, or a change in the work. Generic talks get nodded through; specific ones get remembered
  2. Name the hazard and the mechanism of harm concretely — what contacts what, how fast, what the energy source is
  3. Give the required actions as imperative steps tied to the actual moment they apply
  4. Build in the conversation — a talk is five minutes of speaking and a few minutes of the crew talking back, not a monologue
  5. Close with the ask and the escalation path — what to do differently starting now, and who to raise a concern with

Output format

Toolbox talk: [topic]

Length: ~5 minutes · For: [crew / trade] · Date: ___

Why we're talking about this today Two or three sentences on the trigger. If it's a recent incident, describe it de-identified and factually — what happened and under what conditions, no names, no blame.

The hazard What can hurt you here and how. Concrete, short, no drama.

What we do about it Numbered imperative steps, in the order they happen on the job. Each step names the trigger moment ("before you climb," "when the load leaves the ground"), not a general principle.

Watch for The three or four site-specific conditions that change the risk today — weather, layout, a piece of equipment, a shift pattern.

Questions for the crew Three open questions that surface what the crew already knows. At least one should invite a near-miss story.

Before we break The single ask, the person or role to raise concerns with, and a plain line that stopping work to raise a concern is expected — not penalized.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 23d ago First seen · 54 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 00398cf1627d

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toolbox-talk is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 778 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-24.