team-catchup

team-catchup is a skill for Claude Code from atman-33/workhub. It costs 60 tokens per session (616 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to restore a team discussion's saved summary and newer messages into the current coding session. It reads the discussion incrementally and can save an updated summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after focusing a thread, when beginning work that depends on earlier team discussion, or when the user asks what has been said. It helps identify the current position, unresolved items, owners, and recorded decisions.
Why use it?
A new session does not automatically know what happened in a thread. Catch-up provides the missing context without requiring every agent to read the entire history every time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the team-comms plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it after focusing a thread, when beginning work that depends on earlier team discussion, or when the user asks what has been said. It helps identify the current position, unresolved items, owners, and recorded decisions.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add atman-33/workhub
Claude Code
/plugin install team-comms

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team-comms, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 616 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 $0.00060 $0.00616
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00246
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 16d ago against content hash e3ddcff2178b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-29, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

team-catchup 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 16d 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.

plugins/team-comms/skills/team-catchup/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Catch up on a thread

A session knows nothing about a thread it was not part of. Focus points at a thread; it does not remember its contents. This skill fills that gap — and it is the only part of team-comms that spends a meaningful number of tokens, so it reads incrementally and only when asked.

Steps

  1. Pull what this session is missing:

    node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/comms.mjs" catchup [<thread-id>]
    

    Defaults to the focused thread. It prints the cached digest first, then only the posts that arrived after it. With no digest yet, it prints the whole thread and says so.

  2. Read summaries first. Open a post in full (--full) or an attachment only where the summary is not enough to act on. Reading everything defeats the design — the summaries exist so you do not have to.

  3. Brief the user in a few lines: where the discussion stands, what is unresolved, who is waiting on what, and whether a decision has been recorded. If the tool reports more than one decision, say so — sync delay means two people can each believe theirs was the last word, and picking by timestamp would hide that. A person decides which stands.

  4. Save an updated digest so the next session is cheap:

    node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/comms.mjs" digest [<thread-id>] --file <path>
    

    Write 5–15 lines: the question, the positions and who holds them, what has been settled, what is open. Write it for a session that has never seen the thread — that is exactly who will read it.

  5. If the thread is long and the user is joining cold, --all re-reads everything from the start, ignoring the digest. Use it when the digest was written for a different purpose, not routinely.

Rules

  • Never run this automatically at session start. Whether the discussion is worth loading is a judgement for the moment, which is why the hook injects summaries and stops there.
  • The digest is your reading of the thread, cached on this machine. It is never written into the shared space — it is not a fact about the thread, and it would become one more file several people want to rewrite.
  • Do not treat the digest as the source of truth when it matters: the posts are.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 16d ago First seen · 58 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A e3ddcff2178b

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team-catchup is a skill published in the GitHub repository atman-33/workhub (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 616 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-13.

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