progress

A command for saving research and codebase discoveries as reusable documents. These documents act as project notes that future sessions can consult.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after research or exploration to record entry points, conventions, gotchas, and other knowledge in dated Markdown files.
Why use it?
It prevents developers from repeatedly investigating the same parts of a codebase or forgetting important findings.

Command

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/benshapyro/cadre-devkit-claude/progress
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benshapyro/cadre-devkit-claude
Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,402 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 $0.00007 $0.01402
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00140

Measured 2d ago against content hash fe7d0b72976b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

progress 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.

commands/progress.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Progress Command

Compress learned knowledge into reusable documents for future sessions.

Purpose

After deep exploration or research, save findings so future sessions don't need to re-learn the same things. Creates "cheat sheets" for your codebase.

When to Use

  • After /research sessions with valuable findings
  • After exploring a complex part of the codebase
  • When you've learned something that will be useful again
  • When starting work in a new area of the codebase

File Naming Convention

Format: YYYY-MM-DD-NNN-description.md

  • YYYY-MM-DD - Today's date (use actual current date)
  • NNN - Sequential number for the day (001, 002, etc.)
  • description - Short kebab-case description of topic

Examples:

  • 2025-12-03-001-authentication-system.md
  • 2025-12-03-002-payment-processing.md
  • 2025-12-04-001-api-rate-limiting.md

To determine next number:

  1. List existing files in docs/ for today's date
  2. Find highest NNN for today
  3. Increment by 1 (or start at 001 if first of day)

Workflow

1. Identify What Was Learned

Review the current conversation for:

  • Files and entry points discovered
  • Patterns and conventions identified
  • Gotchas and edge cases found
  • Key relationships between components
  • External documentation links

2. Propose Knowledge Document

Output Format:

## Proposed Knowledge Document

**Topic:** [topic name]
**File:** `docs/YYYY-MM-DD-NNN-description.md`

### Preview

# [Topic] - Quick Reference

**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Context:** [What prompted this research]

**Key Files:**
- `path/to/main/file.ts:line` - [description]
- `path/to/related/file.ts` - [description]

**Entry Points:**
- [Where to start for common tasks]

**Key Patterns:**
- [Pattern 1]
- [Pattern 2]

**Gotchas:**
- [Common mistake or edge case]

**Related Docs:**
- [Link to external docs]

---
Save this document? (yes / edit first / cancel)

3. Await Approval

Wait for user to:

  • Approve - Create the file
  • Edit - User provides changes, then save
  • Cancel - Don't save

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 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 · 229 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A fe7d0b72976b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

progress is a command published in the GitHub repository benshapyro/cadre-devkit-claude (9 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 1,402 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.