close-arc

close-arc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chipi/agentic-ai-homelab. It costs 88 tokens per session (739 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-closing guide for recording what was completed, what was decided, and what remains in a project's documentation. It also updates the documentation index and navigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a milestone or multi-step coding session to create a history entry, update the documentation menu, mark finished next steps, record operational decisions, and suggest a version tag.
Why use it?
It prevents the next work session from having to reconstruct progress from chat history or memory. It keeps past history unchanged while adding a clear continuity record.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after a milestone or multi-step coding session to create a history entry, update the documentation menu, mark finished next steps, record operational decisions, and suggest a version tag.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/close-arc
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 chipi/agentic-ai-homelab --skill close-arc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for close-arc

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/close-arc/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/close-arc)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/close-arc"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/close-arc/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for close-arc

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/close-arc"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/close-arc.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 739 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 $0.00088 $0.00739
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00296
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00074

Measured 17d ago against content hash 2ce03a7f5a69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

close-arc 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 17d 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.

workstation/claude/skills/close-arc/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

close-arc

Write the paper trail that lets the next session pick up cold. History is append-only — never edit a past session doc; write a new one that references it.

Steps

  1. Next number. Highest NNNN in docs/history/ + 1. Filename NNNN-<short-slug>.md.
  2. Write the entry, matching the convention:
    • # NNNN — <arc name> · **Date:** · **Operator:** · **Agent:** · **Outcome:** (one line) · a sibling pointer to the prior history doc.
    • Body: what the operator pointed you at → what landed → decisions → Open threads (so the next session knows exactly where to resume).
  3. Nav + index. Add a nav entry under History in mkdocs.yml (the nav is the exhaustive index). Add a docs/history/README.md bullet only if that file enumerates every session — some repos keep it curated to the founding docs, in which case leave it.
  4. Decisions. For each non-trivial operational decision this arc, append a D-NNNN entry to docs/history/0002-decisions.md (grep-able, referenced by id). Structural decisions get an ADR instead (use new-doc).
  5. Strike NEXT_STEPS — against live state, not memory. In docs/wip/NEXT_STEPS.md, mark completed items - [x] ~~text~~ — *done note (date)*. Strike, never delete — the strikethrough is the paper trail.
    • Check every item you strike or carry forward against the system, not a handover or your memory of it. On 2026-10-17, four "open" items were already done when checked: an ACL grant already gone, mini changes already landed, a DGX deploy whose purpose was already live, a symlink superseded by a wrapper. One stale handover was trusted for a day before anyone looked.
    • Write the check into the item when you add or touch one: a check: line with a command whose output answers it. For example: check: ssh dgx-llm-1 'docker exec pyannote md5sum /app/app.py' vs podcast main. Closing it next time is then one command.
    • Infra items: run the infra-drift skill; telemetry items: deploy-verify or telemetry-probe. Strike with the command's output in the done note.
  6. Version tag. If the repo's tagging gate is met, suggest git tag v<X>-<arc-slug> at the closing commit — don't tag unprompted.
  7. Validate. Run the docs-preflight skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 17d ago Changed · +11 lines 2ce03a7f5a69
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 33 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 96731daeb0bb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

close-arc is a skill published in the GitHub repository chipi/agentic-ai-homelab (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 739 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

agentmail

Use your assigned AgentMail inbox to read email tasks, explicitly send or reply, and check delivery. Provided automatically by your inbox assignment.

paperclipai/paperclip · 30 tokens

founder-coach

Use when a founder is the bottleneck, can't delegate, is burning out or is moving from IC to CEO. Covers delegation, energy and calendar audits, blind spots and succession.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 41 tokens

todos

Use when the user asks for a shared plan, a task needs at least three substantive execution steps, or a loose TODO is pending. Without an explicit plan request, not for one-shot answers or checks, or one- to two-step work that is not already in the list.

JetBrains/thinkrail · 58 tokens

meetings

Context for the Meetings app's data — where a meeting's notes, diagram, transcript-derived tasks and calendar cache live, what the lifecycle states mean, how the app's agents are driven. Load when asked about a meeting's notes or action items, or when touching the meetings app data dir.

kirodotdev/KiroCrew · 62 tokens

subscription-setup

A setup workflow for creating recurring medical-learning subscriptions after a doctor’s profile has been registered.

TencentCloud/Octop · 80 tokens

agent-initialization

Initialize or extend an Agent from a user requirement - write AGENTS.md, set identity metadata, and create, install or import Skills and hook packages (scripts the harness runs on every prompt, before tool calls, or after a task). For an Agent with an in-app workbench, pair with penguin-plugin; for a standalone…

Prism-Shadow/penguin-harness · 79 tokens