desk

desk is a skill for Claude Code from auerbachb/claude-code-config. It costs 64 tokens per session (5,441 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A control session for questions raised by an agent's worker threads. It collects those questions in one human-facing queue, lets a person discuss or answer them, stores the answers, and wakes the thread that asked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when several agent tasks need human choices, confirmations, or longer answers. It is for monitoring the queue and responding to decisions from one control session.
Why use it?
It prevents questions from being scattered across concurrent work or left without an owner. A live desk gives workers one reliable place to obtain human decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it when several agent tasks need human choices, confirmations, or longer answers. It is for monitoring the queue and responding to decisions from one control session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/auerbachb/claude-code-config/skill
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 auerbachb/claude-code-config --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/auerbachb/claude-code-config

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,441 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 $0.00064 $0.05441
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.02176
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00544

Measured 7d ago against content hash 500b4cb15dd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

desk 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 7d 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.

desk/skill/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/desk — the human queue's control session

The desk is the operator's single point of contact (desk/DESIGN.md 2.3, 2.6). Worker threads' questions are captured into the store by the capture hook (desk/README.md, "Capture hook") and render only here, as the same clickable menus a normal session shows. Answers go to the store; the asking thread gets a pointer and reads the store.

The hook queues a question only while a desk is live: a registered control session whose last tick is at most 15 minutes old. Running /desk is what makes it live, so the steps below are exact — a desk that believes it is ticking and is not leaves every worker's questions with nobody to show them to.

This file is a router. It owns starting the desk, the Monitor, its events, and the end-of-turn gate. Each kind of work lives in its own file, loaded when it is needed:

File Owns Issue
decisions.md Simple Decisions: sets, menus, replies, answers, wake-ups #1779
longform.md Long-form and multipart Decisions: one text prompt at a time, part by part, answers stored word for word #1780
discuss.md discuss <n|D-id>: talk one item through with its context loaded, then answer it #1780
desk.jq The functions both views call: which Decisions fit a menu, sets, multipart groups, the long-form and discussion cards, feedback tags #1779, #1780, #1783
interrupts.md desk/policy.json; the interrupt rule (away, available, focus until …, focus for …, focus off, interrupts?); feedback tags (2: not important, 2: should have defaulted, 2: good interrupt) #1783
wakeups.md Wake-up retries on the next three ticks, then answer-parked, shown once #1781
history.md show D-<n> (an item's sub-thread) and history (today's answered items), printed without a state line #1781
priorities.md top, bump, park, drop, priorities: the operator's backlog order for /pm, kept in the target repo's .claude/pm-priority.json #1767
reviews.md The Reviews view: reviews (one line per unreviewed item, by day and repo), open R-<n> (level 2, cached), diff R-<n> [path] (level 3, live), reviewed, reviewed all today, flag, and follow up #1782
drilldown.md The PR drill-down: outline R-<n> (files, hunks, and the tests touching each, numbered), open R-<n> <node>… (a hunk with twenty lines of context, or a file's diff), ask R-<n>: <question> (answered from the hunks it reads, named on a Read: line); nothing stored #1768
ideas.md idea: <text> / file: <text>: file an issue through /issue-maker's one-shot entry, no capture mode; repo: owner/name sets where ideas go #1766
plan.md The day plan: plan, I need to work on …, plan: … (one sentence revises it), plan?, plan off; asks pace and chunking, forecasts incoming questions, proposes what to clear first, stores the confirmed blocks, which hold new Decisions while they run #1784
sweep.md The end-of-day sweep at eod_time (the eod event) or on sweep: everything still open as one numbered list, then the paper export (export, #1759) #1784
attention.md The weekly attention report: report (report <YYYY-MM-DD> for another week), one page from the events table, offered once a week after Friday's end-of-day sweep #1771
todo.md The operator's own to-do layer on items: tag, untag, note, unnote, snooze … until|for …, unsnooze, mine D-<n> 1-5|off, and my list (by personal priority, then age; snoozed items hidden until their time). Not /pm's priorities #1769
checkin.md The morning check-in (the morning event, check-in, or a new plan with none today): hours at the desk, energy, plans, and yesterday's measured pace set today's reading budget; budget? #1770

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

17 files 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. 7d ago Changed · +16 lines 500b4cb15dd5
  2. 8d ago First seen · 149 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 1e722d45c2df

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desk is a skill published in the GitHub repository auerbachb/claude-code-config (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 5,441 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-08.

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