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.
npx skills add cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill pulsegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skillWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/pulse)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/pulse"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/pulse/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/pulse"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/pulse.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00173 | $0.03421 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00086 | $0.01710 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00035 | $0.00684 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00342 |
Grade A, and why
pulse 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Pulse — Multi-Source Recency Research
Portability: Works in both Claude Code CLI and Claude.ai. The optional X/Twitter phase requires browser automation and is skipped automatically if unavailable.
A recency-oriented research skill that synthesizes what people are saying about a topic across Reddit, Hacker News, the open web, and (optionally) X/Twitter — within a configurable time window. Output is a single coherent briefing with citations, engagement signals, and cross-platform pattern analysis. The skill captures the current conversation, not the canonical reference.
Invocation
Explicit trigger phrases:
- "pulse on [topic]"
- "what's happening with [topic]"
- "what are people saying about [topic]"
- "current conversation about [topic]"
- "take the pulse of [topic]"
- "trending: [topic]"
- "find me info on [topic]"
Also covers: competitor research with recency flavor, trend discovery, tool comparisons, audience sentiment analysis.
Agent Integrity Rules (Research-Pack Convention)
The following rules apply throughout the run. They are inherited from the research-pack convention and locked down by PR #657's cross-skill consistency audit.
- Execution discipline. Phases 1–3 run in parallel (Reddit + HN + Web are independent). Within each phase, sequential calls only. 1 q/sec rate limit per platform. Confirm response received before next call within the same phase.
- Source discipline. Cite only sources returned by this session's tool calls. Training knowledge is labeled
[Background — not from search]and excluded from primary findings count. - Three-count tracking. Queries sent / sources received (shown) / sources cited. Surfaced in the audit log inline in the synthesis section. Use
scripts/citation_tracker.pyfor the deterministic count. - Retry policy. On failure → wait 3s → retry once → log. After 3 consecutive failures across all sources: stop, alert user, share what was collected. Never deliver an empty file.
- Plan-tier detection. Reddit + HN are unauthenticated public JSON APIs (rate-limited per IP, not per plan). Surface rate-limit signals from response headers when available; degrade gracefully otherwise.
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 254 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 39ba2b17f0f7
pulse is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 3,421 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.
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