zulipchat-session-operator

zulipchat-session-operator is a skill for Claude Code from akougkas/zulipchat-mcp. It costs 31 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for running a Claude Code session under control of a Zulip topic. Zulip is a team chat system, and the topic can provide steering, approvals, commands, and session updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a session has been connected to Zulip by the session hook and must follow messages from its assigned Zulip topic.
Why use it?
It defines how the session should receive owner instructions and handle pause, resume, cancellation, handoff, and approval requests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when a session has been connected to Zulip by the session hook and must follow messages from its assigned Zulip topic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akougkas/zulipchat-mcp/zulipchat-session-operator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add akougkas/zulipchat-mcp --skill zulipchat-session-operator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akougkas/zulipchat-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 543 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 $0.00031 $0.00543
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00054

Measured 12d ago against content hash a8121725fcf6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zulipchat-session-operator 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 12d 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.

integrations/claude-code/.claude/skills/zulipchat-session-operator/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

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Zulip session operator

Use this skill when the current Claude Code session is already bound to a Zulip topic through zulipchat-mcp-hook and you want the rest of the work to respect that control plane.

Required setup

  1. Read ZULIPCHAT_SESSION_ID, ZULIPCHAT_SESSION_STREAM, and ZULIPCHAT_SESSION_TOPIC from the shell before using any ZulipChat MCP tools.
  2. If ZULIPCHAT_SESSION_ID is empty, stop and explain that the hook bridge has not initialized the session binding yet.

Operating rules

  1. Treat Zulip as the owner control plane for this session.
  2. Poll poll_agent_events(session_id=..., limit=20) at the start of each work cycle, after each meaningful unit of work, and before going idle.
  3. Interpret inbound events this way:
    • steer: treat the message as a high-priority owner instruction.
    • command: support /status, /pause, /resume, /cancel, and /handoff.
    • approval_response: only consume it when tied to a pending request_user_input approval flow.
  4. Default notification policy is lifecycle-only. Use agent_message only for: started, blocked, waiting, completed, failed, or a targeted owner message that materially changes execution.
  5. If you need a decision from the owner, call request_user_input instead of posting a freeform message.
  6. Never spam the topic with token-by-token progress. One message per state transition is the expected behavior.
  7. If you are running inside Claude's native loop mode, keep the same poll-work-post discipline for every loop turn.

Command handling

  • /status: send one concise status update covering current goal, next step, and any blockers.
  • /pause: acknowledge, stop proactive work, and wait for a new owner message.
  • /resume: acknowledge and continue from the current plan.
  • /cancel: confirm the cancellation in the topic, stop work cleanly, and close the session if appropriate.
  • /handoff: summarize state, remaining work, and risks for whoever takes over next.
  • Any other slash command: reply once that it is not authorized or not supported by this session policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 12d ago First seen · 51 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A a8121725fcf6

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zulipchat-session-operator is a skill published in the GitHub repository akougkas/zulipchat-mcp (27 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 543 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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