almanac

almanac is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Alexander-Tyagunov/magician. It costs 40 tokens per session (169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-time project setup tool that creates a shared workspace structure, ignore-file entries, project guidance, and suggestions for relevant coding-agent capabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Run it once at the start of a project to prepare the workspace and create or update AGENTS.md.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive setup work and gives the agent basic project rules before development begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the magician plugin — 26 skills, 4 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

Good fit Run it once at the start of a project to prepare the workspace and create or update AGENTS.md.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/almanac
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Alexander-Tyagunov/magician --skill almanac
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alexander-Tyagunov/magician

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install magician, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 agents, 10 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 169 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 $0.00040 $0.00169
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00084
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00017

Measured 12d ago against content hash bb6f5c3653e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

almanac 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.

.codex-plugin/skills/almanac/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

$almanac — Codex Adapter

Read ../../references/codex-adapter.md, then read ../../../skills/almanac/SKILL.md and follow the source skill through that Codex adapter. Keep the source skill's gates, safety checks, and completion criteria.

Create or update AGENTS.md, never CLAUDE.md, and skip Claude permission/MCP settings. Do not alter .claude/, .claude-plugin/, or Claude configuration. Recommend Codex plugins/MCPs only when relevant and installed/available; do not claim setup succeeded without evidence.

Files

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.

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 · 11 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A bb6f5c3653e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

almanac is a skill published in the GitHub repository Alexander-Tyagunov/magician (14 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 169 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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