twining-semantic-review

twining-semantic-review is a skill for Claude Code from daveangulo/twining-mcp. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,168 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An optional review of Twining project notes and decisions for meaning that has become outdated. Twining is a system for recording project context, decisions, and coordination between agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing old entries after a release or milestone, or when housekeeping is clean but many historical notes remain. The user must confirm anything that should be archived.
Why use it?
Basic cleanup can find deleted files or removed branches, but it may miss notes that still look valid while referring to retired plans, names, or architectures.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the twining plugin — 9 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Reviewing old entries after a release or milestone, or when housekeeping is clean but many historical notes remain. The user must confirm anything that should be archived.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daveangulo/twining-mcp/twining-semantic-review
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 daveangulo/twining-mcp --skill twining-semantic-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daveangulo/twining-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install twining, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,168 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 $0.00077 $0.01168
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00584
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00117

Measured 9d ago against content hash ae081ea481a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

twining-semantic-review 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 9d 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.

plugin/skills/twining-semantic-review/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Twining Semantic Review — LLM-Judged Staleness

Deterministic staleness (twining_housekeeping with staleness_review: true) catches orphans-by-structure: the scope path is gone, affected files deleted, branch removed. It cannot catch entries that are structurally intact but reference concepts the project has moved past — "Wave 3 review action items", "HMS Lancaster compliance", a sprint that closed a year ago. A future agent finding those will go looking for concepts that don't exist and hallucinate explanations.

This skill puts the judging model — you — in that loop. You are the LLM; no API key, no server-side model call, no cost beyond this session. Nothing is archived without explicit user confirmation.

When to Invoke

  • The user asks for a semantic review, deep cleanup, or "are any of these entries still relevant?"
  • After a milestone/version ships and its planning vocabulary is retired
  • Deterministic housekeeping reports clean but twining_status shows a large, old entry population

Never run this as a side effect of another task. It is opt-in by design.

Workflow

1. Ground yourself in what is CURRENT

Before judging anything, build the "still alive" picture:

  • git branch --list and the current branch — active lines of work
  • README.md / project docs headline — what the project is now
  • twining_status — entry counts, current phase if tracked
  • The 10 most recent blackboard entries — today's working vocabulary

2. Load review candidates

  • Decisions: twining_why on the major scopes (e.g. src/, plugin/), including include_superseded: false (superseded ones are already retired). Use the more tier and ids drill-down for full rationale where needed.
  • Blackboard entries: twining_read with no type filter, oldest first if the surface allows. twining_read requires tools.full_surface: true — in lite mode, review decisions only (via twining_why) plus the dangling_warnings items from twining_housekeeping.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 9d ago First seen · 95 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A ae081ea481a2

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twining-semantic-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository daveangulo/twining-mcp (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,168 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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