recap

A command that summarizes a work session, including changes made, decisions, solved problems, and the current repository state. It creates an update that can be shared with a team.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a coding session to review commits, changed files, current status, and important decisions. It produces a structured recap with a date and repository name.
Why use it?
It turns scattered work and project information into a concise record, reducing the effort needed to prepare a standup or stakeholder update.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/benkapner/claude-code-basecamp/recap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 628 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00026 $0.00628
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00314
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00063

Measured 2d ago against content hash c1c995680ca3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recap 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 2d 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.

.claude/commands/recap.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recap Command

Summarize the current work session into a structured, shareable update.

Instructions

Step 1: Gather What Happened

# Recent commits (this session's work)
git log --oneline --since="8 hours ago" 2>/dev/null || git log --oneline -15

# What files changed
git diff --stat HEAD~10..HEAD 2>/dev/null || git diff --stat

# Current status
git status --short

Also review the conversation history for:

  • What the user asked for
  • Key decisions made (and why)
  • Problems encountered and how they were solved
  • Skills, agents, or commands that were used

Step 2: Generate the Recap

Format the output like this:

SESSION RECAP
=============
Date: [today's date]
Repo: [repository name]

WHAT WAS DONE:
  1. [Change #1 — one sentence describing what and why]
  2. [Change #2 — one sentence]
  3. [Change #3 — one sentence]
  ...

KEY DECISIONS:
  - [Decision and reasoning — e.g., "Kept closed issues as lightweight entries
    instead of removing them, to give the AI context about completed work"]
  - [Decision and reasoning]

PROBLEMS SOLVED:
  - [Problem → Solution — e.g., "Merge conflict on executive_report.html
    → skipped local commit, kept remote version"]

FILES CHANGED:
  [X] files modified, [Y] files created, [Z] files deleted

TESTS:
  [All N tests passing / X failures]

READY TO SHARE (copy-paste for standup/Slack/email):
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
[2-3 sentence summary suitable for a non-technical audience.
Focus on WHAT was accomplished and WHY it matters,
not the technical details of HOW.]
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Step 3: Offer Follow-ups

After the recap, ask:

  • "Want me to adjust the tone (more technical / more executive)?"
  • "Want me to expand any section?"
  • "Want me to draft a message for a specific person?"

Important

  • The "READY TO SHARE" section should be copy-pasteable as-is — no markdown, no jargon
  • Focus on outcomes ("split the pipeline for easier debugging") not mechanics ("edited 14 files")
  • If multiple repos were touched, organize by repo
  • Include commit hashes for traceability

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 2d ago First seen · 89 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A c1c995680ca3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recap is a command published in the GitHub repository Benkapner/claude-code-basecamp (16 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 628 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.