project-lifecycle

A project-tracking tool organizes documents for starting, managing, and archiving a coding project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create project folders after a plan is approved, organize project documents, archive finished work, and update project indexes.
Why use it?
It keeps project records structured and makes it clear when work is ready to be archived. It also helps prevent project documents from becoming scattered or outdated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the autopilot plugin — 32 skills, 3 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cookys/autopilot/project-lifecycle
Any agent
npx skills add cookys/autopilot --skill project-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookys/autopilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install autopilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 3 agents, 7 hooks.

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 258 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00115 $0.00258
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00129
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00026

Measured 3d ago against content hash 653f590f7cf6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

project-lifecycle scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

!`cat .claude/project-lifecycle-config.md 2>/dev/null || true`
platforms/codex/plugin/skills/project-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Project Lifecycle

Project Config (auto-injected)

!cat .claude/project-lifecycle-config.md 2>/dev/null || true

Phase Reference When
Bootstrap references/plan-bootstrap.md After plan approval for L-size projects
Structure references/project-structure.md Creating project dirs, organizing docs
Archive references/project-archive.md Finishing a development branch, user says "archive"
Files

What ships with it

4 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. 3d ago First seen · 21 lines · 115 tokens per session scan B 653f590f7cf6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookys/autopilot (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 258 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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