trove-show-work

trove-show-work is a skill for Claude Code from bravew/trove. It costs 54 tokens per session (448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An append-only decision log for long-running or unattended coding work. It records each decision, its reason, supporting evidence, and result in a tab-separated file.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps record decisions during autonomous or multi-phase work and link them to commands, files, or metrics that support the decision.
Why use it?
It gives a reviewer a history they can inspect without replaying the whole run. Earlier mistakes stay visible and can be superseded by later entries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the trove-workflow plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps record decisions during autonomous or multi-phase work and link them to commands, files, or metrics that support the decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bravew/trove/trove-show-work
View source ↗ bravew/trove
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 bravew/trove --skill trove-show-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bravew/trove

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trove-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 448 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 $0.00054 $0.00448
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00179
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ceba6806ca1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trove-show-work 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/log.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/trove-workflow/.agents/skills/trove-show-work/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Session Init

This skill ships Trove conventions. Prefer existing project patterns over generic best practices when they conflict.

trove-show-work

Maintain one canonical decision log so a reviewer can reconstruct an unattended run without replaying it. Local by default; commit it when a reviewer needs the trail to trust the result.

The log

One TSV file, append-only, one row per decision. Columns: ts, phase, decision, why, evidence, result. TSV because GitHub renders it as a sortable table and column -s$'\t' -t file.tsv reads it in a terminal. Template: references/decision-log-template.tsv.

Use the helper so timestamps and the formula-injection guard are consistent:

scripts/log.sh decisions.tsv "<phase>" "<decision>" "<why>" "<evidence>" "<result>"
  • Append-only. A wrong call doesn't get edited away — add a new row that supersedes it and say so in result. The history is the point.
  • Evidence is mandatory. The evidence cell points at the real thing (a command output, a file:line, a metric), not "looks right".

Self-audit before handoff

Read the log against what actually happened this session. Fix the log, not the story: if a row claims an outcome the transcript doesn't support, correct the row. Optionally get a second opinion from a fresh read (a sub-agent) and add an "Attention" row for anything a reviewer must look at.

Why not prose

A narrative paragraph hides the decision points. One row per decision makes a skipped verification or an unsupported claim visible at a glance.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A ceba6806ca1a

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trove-show-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository bravew/trove (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 448 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 2026-09-11.