displaying-timelines

displaying-timelines is a skill for Claude Code from ancoleman/ai-design-components. It costs 75 tokens per session (2,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for showing events in time order through timelines, activity feeds, Gantt charts, and calendar views.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for project schedules, audit logs, notifications, social activity, historical milestones, and other time-based interfaces.
Why use it?
It helps choose a suitable layout and handle dates, updates, performance, accessibility, and responsive behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ui-structure-skills plugin — 3 skills shipped together

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/ancoleman/ai-design-components/displaying-timelines
Any agent
npx skills add ancoleman/ai-design-components --skill displaying-timelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ancoleman/ai-design-components

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ui-structure-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,338 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 5.1 $0.00075 $0.02338
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01169
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00468
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00234

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5abb06c38da9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

displaying-timelines 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/benchmark_timeline.js, scripts/format_timestamps.js, scripts/generate_gantt_data.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/displaying-timelines/SKILL.md · 402 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 402 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Displaying Timelines & Activity Components

Purpose

This skill enables systematic creation of timeline and activity components, from simple vertical timelines to complex interactive Gantt charts. It provides clear decision frameworks based on use case and data characteristics, ensuring optimal performance, real-time updates, and accessible implementations.

When to Use

Activate this skill when:

  • Creating activity feeds (social, notifications, audit logs)
  • Displaying timelines (vertical, horizontal, interactive)
  • Building Gantt charts or project schedules
  • Implementing calendar interfaces (month, week, day views)
  • Showing chronological events or historical data
  • Handling real-time activity updates
  • Requiring timestamp formatting (relative, absolute)
  • Ensuring timeline accessibility or responsive behavior

Quick Decision Framework

Select component type based on use case:

Social Activity        → Activity Feed (infinite scroll, reactions)
System Events          → Audit Log (searchable, exportable, precise timestamps)
User Notifications     → Notification Feed (read/unread, grouped by date)
Historical Events      → Vertical Timeline (milestones, alternating sides)
Project Planning       → Gantt Chart (dependencies, drag-to-reschedule)
Scheduling             → Calendar Interface (month/week/day views)
Interactive Roadmap    → Horizontal Timeline (zoom, pan, filter)

For detailed selection criteria, reference references/component-selection.md.

Core Implementation Patterns

Activity Feeds

Social Feed Pattern:

  • User avatar + name + action description
  • Relative timestamps ("2 hours ago")
  • Reactions and comments
  • Infinite scroll with pagination
  • Real-time updates via WebSocket
  • Reference references/activity-feeds.md

Notification Feed Pattern:

  • Grouped by date sections
  • Read/unread states with indicators
  • Mark all as read functionality
  • Filter by notification type
  • Action buttons (view, dismiss)
  • Reference references/notification-feeds.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 402 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. 6d ago First seen · 402 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 5abb06c38da9

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displaying-timelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository ancoleman/ai-design-components (518 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,338 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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