timeline

timeline is a skill for Claude Code from anthonysuherli/br8n. It costs 98 tokens per session (737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only activity log for a repository and its current Git branch. It combines session notes, context captures, and journal entries into chronological timeline files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing recent, weekly, or complete repository activity, and rebuilding the timeline when a fresh rollup is needed.
Why use it?
It helps recover what happened during earlier work without searching through scattered notes. The timeline is regenerated from its source records and is not meant to be edited directly.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the br8n plugin — 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Reviewing recent, weekly, or complete repository activity, and rebuilding the timeline when a fresh rollup is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonysuherli/br8n/timeline
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 anthonysuherli/br8n --skill timeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthonysuherli/br8n

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install br8n, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for timeline

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthonysuherli/br8n/timeline.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthonysuherli/br8n/timeline)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthonysuherli/br8n/timeline"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthonysuherli/br8n/timeline.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 737 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 $0.00098 $0.00737
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00074

Measured 8d ago against content hash d153b73b2ab9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

timeline 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 8d 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.

skills/timeline/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

br8n — Timeline (append-only activity log)

br8n periodically rolls this repo+branch's session notes, context captures, and journal entries into a chronological, append-only timeline at <project_path>/.br8n/timeline/:

  • all-time.md — the canonical append-only log (newest at the bottom, never rewritten).
  • recent.md — the last few days (regenerated each pass).
  • week.md — the past week (regenerated each pass).

This is the temporal view — distinct from /br8n:docs (the topical doc tree) and /br8n:activity (the cross-repo work graph). The files are git-ignored and regenerated; never hand-edit them — they rebuild from notes/captures/journal.

Step 0 — Resolve target

project = git repo basename, kb = git branch, project_path = repo root (see ../_shared/preamble-first.md):

basename "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"   # project
git branch --show-current                     # kb
git rev-parse --show-toplevel                 # project_path

No prior tap needed — the timeline is plain files in the working tree.

Step 1 — Read and present

The timeline files are markdown on disk under <project_path>/.br8n/timeline/. Read them with your own file tools — no MCP call needed to read:

  1. Read <project_path>/.br8n/timeline/recent.md and present it (newest at the bottom — the "scrolling down" feel).
  2. Point the user at the wider views: week.md (past week) and all-time.md (the full scroll). Read and surface those too if the user asks for more history.

If the dir is empty or missing, say so and offer --rebuild (Step 2) to build it from the notes/captures/journal so far.

Step 2 — --rebuild (force a pass)

Trigger when the user passes --rebuild, or when the dir is empty/stale. Call:

mcp__plugin_br8n_br8n__br8n_timeline(
  project, kb, project_path, force=true
)

It returns {forced, appended, recent_days, week_days, all_time_path, recent_path, week_path}. Report appended (how many new events landed in the all-time log) and the window sizes, then re-read recent.md (Step 1) and present the refreshed view.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 8d ago First seen · 62 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A d153b73b2ab9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

timeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthonysuherli/br8n (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 737 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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