monthly

monthly is a command for Claude Code from XBlueSky/vatt-ghern. It costs 23 tokens per session (305 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that creates a monthly summary of the previous month’s vatt-ghern blog posts. It writes one HTML post, validates it, and opens a pull request for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate a monthly rollup when the previous month has at least eight roundups. It skips creation and reports the result when there are fewer.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of collecting the month’s posts and preparing a checked summary, while leaving publication under human review.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the vatt-ghern plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add XBlueSky/vatt-ghern
Claude Code
/plugin install vatt-ghern

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vatt-ghern, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for monthly

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/xbluesky/vatt-ghern/monthly.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/xbluesky/vatt-ghern/monthly)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/xbluesky/vatt-ghern/monthly"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/xbluesky/vatt-ghern/monthly.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 305 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 $0.00023 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 6d ago against content hash 93c36af980d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monthly 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 6d 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/monthly.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Execute the daily-news skill in monthly rollup mode for the vatt-ghern blog.

Use the daily-news skill in this plugin to:

  1. Skip Step 2 (fetch sources) through Step 6 (roundup).
  2. Determine the calendar-month length (28-31 days) of the month that just ended.
  3. Run node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/daily-news/scripts/load-past-roundups.mjs --days=<N> --end=<last day of last month> to gather the past month's sidecars.
  4. Read the archetype reference at skills/daily-news/references/archetypes/monthly-rollup.md.
  5. Author exactly ONE src/posts/YYYY/MM/01/monthly.html (where YYYY-MM-01 is the first day of the new month) + matching .11tydata.json with override_dup_check: true.
  6. Run validation (archetype-check, html-validate, link-check).
  7. Open a PR titled monthly: <YYYY-MM> rollup against main.

Do not merge — the PR waits for human review and Cloudflare Pages preview.

If the prior month had fewer than 8 roundups, skip the rollup and report that. No PR.

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. 6d ago First seen · 27 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 93c36af980d9

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monthly is a command published in the GitHub repository XBlueSky/vatt-ghern (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 305 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 2026-08-31.