Babysitter is a workflow engine for AI coding agents that enforces predefined steps, quality checks, human approvals, and decision records. It is used to coordinate complex, repeatable agent workflows across supported coding tools. The catalogue contains skills, agents, instructions, settings, a plugin, and an MCP integration for its workflow.
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.
npx agentmods add skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/braindump-capturenpx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill braindump-capturegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitterWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/braindump-capture)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/braindump-capture"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/braindump-capture.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00019 | $0.00361 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00180 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00072 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00036 |
Grade A, and why
cog-braindump-capture 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 3d 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.
What it actually says
- Classify content into personal, professional, and project-specific domains
- Extract embedded URLs for separate processing
- Route classified content to appropriate vault directories
- Tag entries with metadata: date, domain, confidence, topics
- Maintain strict domain separation (02-personal vs 03-professional)
- Quality-gated capture with iterative refinement
Tool Use Instructions
- Use
file-readto load user profile from 00-inbox for classification context - Classify content by domain using natural language analysis
- Use
file-writeto create classified entries in appropriate vault directories - Use
file-searchto find related existing entries for cross-referencing - Use
file-writeto add cross-references to new and existing entries - Use
git-committo commit captured content
Examples
{
"vaultPath": "./cog-vault",
"captureType": "braindump",
"content": "Had a great idea about the auth system redesign. Also need to book vacation for July. The React 19 features look promising for our dashboard project.",
"targetQuality": 80
}
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 43 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 04550c4a74ce
cog-braindump-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository a5c-ai/babysitter (1,772 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 361 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 2026-09-03.
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