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 skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill knowledge-consolidationgit 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/knowledge-consolidation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/knowledge-consolidation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/knowledge-consolidation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/knowledge-consolidation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/knowledge-consolidation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00327 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00163 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00065 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00033 |
Grade A, and why
cog-knowledge-consolidation 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.
What it actually says
- Cluster related notes into coherent themes
- Build structured frameworks: concept maps, key principles, examples, applications
- Cross-reference with existing frameworks in 05-knowledge
- Preserve source attribution through consolidation
- Quality-gated framework building with iterative refinement
- Identify knowledge gaps needing additional capture
Tool Use Instructions
- Use
file-searchto find notes not yet consolidated into frameworks - Use
file-readto load candidate notes and existing frameworks - Cluster related notes by topic similarity
- Build framework structure: concept map, principles, examples, applications
- Use
file-writeto create or update frameworks in 05-knowledge - Add cross-references between new and existing frameworks
- Use
git-committo commit consolidated frameworks
Examples
{
"vaultPath": "./cog-vault",
"mode": "knowledge-consolidation",
"userName": "Alex",
"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.
- 6d ago First seen · 44 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A abea639893e1
cog-knowledge-consolidation is a skill published in the GitHub repository a5c-ai/babysitter (1,778 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 327 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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