generation-timeline

generation-timeline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bolivian-peru/os-moda. It costs 32 tokens per session (857 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A debugging tool for NixOS, a Linux system whose configuration is tracked as numbered system versions called generations. It connects those versions with change records and system logs to show what changed before a failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build timelines of configuration changes, errors, and service failures. It can help compare a failure with an earlier NixOS generation and consider rollback or repair options.
Why use it?
It helps explain when a problem began and whether a configuration change caused it. This is useful when a service breaks after a system rebuild or package update.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to build timelines of configuration changes, errors, and service failures. It can help compare a failure with an earlier NixOS generation and consider rollback or repair options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bolivian-peru/os-moda/generation-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 bolivian-peru/os-moda --skill generation-timeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bolivian-peru/os-moda

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 857 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00032 $0.00857
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00086

Measured 10d ago against content hash ae1748163b8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generation-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 10d 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/generation-timeline/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generation Timeline — Time-Travel Debugging

Correlate NixOS generations + audit ledger + journal logs to debug issues across time.

"What changed?" Workflow

When a user reports "something broke":

1. Get the generation timeline

shell_exec({ command: "nixos-rebuild list-generations 2>/dev/null | tail -10" })

2. Get the audit ledger for the same period

event_log({ limit: 30 })

3. Correlate with journal errors

journal_logs({ priority: "err", since: "24 hours ago", lines: 50 })

4. Check memory for related context

memory_recall({ query: "config change rebuild generation", timeframe: "7d" })

5. Build the timeline

Present a unified view:

Timeline — Last 48 Hours:

Feb 19 09:30  Gen 48 applied (nixpkgs update: OpenSSL 3.1→3.2)
Feb 19 09:47  ERROR: app returned first 502 (17 min after gen 48)
Feb 19 09:48  WARNING: 12 more 502s in next minute
Feb 19 09:52  agentd detected service degradation (audit #134)
Feb 19 10:00  You: "something broke"

Root cause: Gen 48 updated OpenSSL, breaking TLS cipher
used by your app.

Options:
(a) Rollback to Gen 47 (reverts everything since)
(b) Pin OpenSSL 3.1 for your app only (overlay)
(c) Update app TLS config (best long-term fix)

"Explain my server" Workflow

When asked "what does this server do" or "explain the setup":

shell_exec({ command: "cat /etc/nixos/configuration.nix" })
shell_exec({ command: "nixos-rebuild list-generations | head -5" })
shell_exec({ command: "systemctl list-units --type=service --state=running --no-pager" })

Generate a plain-English overview:

Your Server — osModa (Hetzner CX22)

Services running:
  - agentd (osModa system daemon) — since boot
  - OpenClaw Gateway (AI agent interface) — port 18789
  - SSH (key-auth only) — port 22
  - nginx (reverse proxy) — ports 80, 443

Architecture:
  Internet → nginx (443) → OpenClaw (18789)
  SSH → direct access (22)

NixOS: Generation 50, built Feb 20
Resources: 2 CPU, 7.6GB RAM, 80GB disk (38% used)
Uptime: 12 hours

History: 50 generations over 18 days.
Key changes stored in audit ledger (134 entries).

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 10d ago First seen · 117 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A ae1748163b8e

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generation-timeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository bolivian-peru/os-moda (117 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 857 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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