time-awareness

time-awareness is a skill for Claude Code from AraneaDev/claude-timestamp. It costs 74 tokens per session (820 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A time-awareness guide explains how to interpret system reminders about message times, running turns, slow tool calls, breaks, and resumed conversations. It uses those facts to keep work aligned with the request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when recording dates, deciding whether to rerun a slow command, working during a long turn, or resuming a project after a gap.
Why use it?
It reduces errors from confusing when a message was sent with the current time, repeating slow commands, or continuing work after a long delay without checking scope.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-timestamp plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 8 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when recording dates, deciding whether to rerun a slow command, working during a long turn, or resuming a project after a gap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/araneadev/claude-timestamp/time-awareness
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 AraneaDev/claude-timestamp --skill time-awareness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AraneaDev/claude-timestamp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-timestamp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 8 hooks.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 820 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 $0.00074 $0.00820
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00410
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00082

Measured today against content hash 47dee6401ef4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

time-awareness 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 today.

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/time-awareness/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Time awareness

claude-timestamp tells you about time in short system reminders. They state facts and nothing else. This is what to do with them.

The reminders

Message sent at local time 10:37:21 CEST, after a 3h break arrives with every prompt. It is when the user pressed enter, not the time now.

Turn running 30m04s (prompt sent 10:37:21); now 11:07:25 CEST. means the turn you are in has run that long without hearing from the user.

  • Check that the work still matches what was asked. Drift costs less to catch now than at the end.
  • From the second one onward, consider finishing the step you are on and reporting back instead of opening new scope. That is a judgement call: a long job the user asked you to run unattended should keep going.

That Bash call took 2m14s. means one call was slow. Before running the same thing again:

  • run it with run_in_background and keep working meanwhile,
  • narrow it: one test file, one package, a filter, or
  • reuse the output you already have, when nothing it depends on has changed.

Previous session in this project ended 14h ago (Thu 20:12:05). and Resuming this conversation; last activity 14h ago (Thu 20:12:05). mean that what you knew before the gap may be stale. Before building on it, check what could have moved: the branch and git status, running servers, open pull requests and CI runs, and files the user may have edited meanwhile.

Time in general

  • During a long turn, get the current time from date. The last stamp in the conversation is when the user spoke.
  • Refer to earlier messages by the time on their stamp ("the change you asked for at 10:37") rather than "earlier" or "just now".
  • Write absolute dates in anything that outlives the conversation: "Thursday" becomes 2026-09-10.
  • Answer questions about duration from measurement, never from how long the conversation feels.

Measuring

This session so far:

bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/scripts/setup.sh" --session

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. today First seen · 76 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 47dee6401ef4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

time-awareness is a skill published in the GitHub repository AraneaDev/claude-timestamp (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 820 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 2026-09-12.

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