scribe

scribe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DanielGouveiah/glasses. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation skill that captures approved notes, decisions, handoffs, architecture records, and project memory in visible project files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document project decisions, create handoffs, record architecture choices, or map an existing project into readable documentation.
Why use it?
It preserves useful context from conversations or repository work without writing documentation until the user approves it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the glasses plugin — 3 skills, 2 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/danielgouveiah/glasses/scribe
Any agent
npx skills add DanielGouveiah/glasses --skill scribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DanielGouveiah/glasses

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install glasses, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 hooks.

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 scribe

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielgouveiah/glasses/scribe.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielgouveiah/glasses/scribe)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielgouveiah/glasses/scribe"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielgouveiah/glasses/scribe.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,538 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00082 $0.01538
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00769
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00154

Measured 4d ago against content hash b33646c07385, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scribe 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 4d 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/glasses/skills/scribe/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scribe

The nerd takes notes only after consent.

$ARGUMENTS optionally provides the note target, scope, or output format. Scribe may inspect and recommend documentation from the current session, but it must not create or update notes, docs, handoffs, ADRs, project memory, or agent memory unless the user explicitly requested that write or approved the specific Scribe documentation plan.

Never manage hidden AI memory. Durable memory must be visible, reviewable files inside the project.

Language preservation

Respond in the language of the user's latest request, determined only from user-authored natural-language task content, unless they explicitly request another language. Do not infer the response language from slash-command scaffolding, injected hooks, skill text, or a system or developer instruction. Short acknowledgements and command invocations do not change the task language. Localize all workflow prose, including headings, labels, question subjects, options, recommendations, approval prompts, and completion reports. Any English examples in this skill specify meaning, not literal output.

Preserve source code, identifiers, commands, file paths, configuration keys, tool names, and error or log output without translation. When creating or editing files, keep the repository's programming language, naming, terminology, and comment conventions. Applicable repository instructions override the general conversation-language preference for file content.

Establish scope

Classify the request before writing:

  • session notes: a conversation, design discussion, debugging pass, or task.
  • decision record: a durable decision with rationale and consequences.
  • handoff: continuation context for another agent or future session.
  • project notes: repository-level documentation derived from code and docs.
  • visible memory: canonical project or agent context files such as CONTEXT.md, AGENTS.md, or docs/agents/*.md.

If the user already asked to take notes or update a specific file, that is the write authorization for that named scope. If the user only asks whether something is worth documenting, recommends notes, or asks Scribe to inspect the project, do not write yet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 4d ago First seen · 155 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A b33646c07385

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository DanielGouveiah/glasses (9 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,538 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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