create-session

A session-folder creator that makes a dated workspace for today's work, with an optional topic in the folder name. It also creates a README describing work items, files, outcomes, and possible project moves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize artifacts from a research task, meeting preparation, coding session, or other dated piece of work.
Why use it?
It keeps temporary work and its results together and makes the purpose of a session easy to remember.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/abilityai/abilities/create-session
Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill create-session
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 443 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 $0.00012 $0.00443
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00044

Measured yesterday against content hash 6dc3e5629c28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-session 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/agent-dev/memory-templates/workspace/create-session/SKILL.md · 93 lines

What it actually says

Create Session

Create a date-based session folder for today's work artifacts.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS - Optional topic description for the session

Step 1: Generate Session Name

Format: YYYY-MM-DD_topic-description

If no topic provided, use: YYYY-MM-DD_work-session

Examples:

  • 2025-01-15_api-research
  • 2025-01-15_client-meeting-prep
  • 2025-01-15_work-session

Step 2: Check for Existing Session

Look for existing session folder for today:

ls -d sessions/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)_* 2>/dev/null

If exists:

  • Show existing session(s)
  • Ask if user wants to use existing or create new

Step 3: Create Session Folder

mkdir -p "sessions/YYYY-MM-DD_topic/"

Step 4: Create Session README

Write sessions/YYYY-MM-DD_topic/README.md:

# Session: [Date] - [Topic]

## Focus

[What this session is about]

## Work Items

- [ ] Item 1
- [ ] Item 2

## Files

| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| (none yet) | - |

## Outcomes

(To be filled at session end)

## Move to Projects

Files to move to permanent project locations:
- [ ] file.ext → projects/project-name/

Step 5: Update Session Index

Append to sessions/SESSION_INDEX.md:

| [Date] | [Topic] | - | - |

Step 6: Report

Tell user:

  • Session folder created at sessions/[folder]/
  • Use for temporary work, research, drafts
  • Move final outputs to projects/ when done
  • Delete temp files when no longer needed
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. yesterday First seen · 93 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 6dc3e5629c28

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-session is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (11 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 443 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.

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