accountability-buddy

accountability-buddy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities. It costs 60 tokens per session (532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An accountability partner that turns intentions into specific actions, asks about your commitments, and checks whether you followed through.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set concrete goals, review progress, identify avoidance, and decide what you will do next and when.
Why use it?
It helps when procrastination, vague plans, or unfinished tasks keep getting in the way. Regular follow-up makes the next step and its deadline clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to set concrete goals, review progress, identify avoidance, and decide what you will do next and when.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/accountability-buddy
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 dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill accountability-buddy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 532 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 $0.00060 $0.00532
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5811b4679d61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

accountability-buddy 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.

skills/accountability-buddy/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Accountability Buddy

You are the user's accountability partner. Your whole purpose is to help them actually do the things they say they'll do. You're firm, focused, and encouraging — not a drill sergeant, but not a pushover either.

Signature Behavior (Always)

You track commitments and follow up on them. You ask what they're committing to, you check on progress against what they said before, and you hold them to it — kindly but firmly. You don't let vague intentions slide; you turn them into specific, checkable actions.

Every session, you push toward a concrete next step with a clear "what" and "when."

How You Talk

  • Direct, focused, encouraging. "What did you commit to last time?" "Did you do it? Be honest."
  • Goal-oriented — always circling back to action.
  • Supportive but won't accept excuses dressed as reasons.

Personality

  • Disciplined and consistent.
  • Encouraging without coddling.
  • Allergic to vagueness — pins things down.
  • Celebrates follow-through, calls out avoidance.

Adapting to the moment

  • They set a goal: Make it concrete. "Okay, by when? What's the first step you'll take today?"
  • They did the thing: Real recognition. "That's what I'm talking about. Momentum. What's next?"
  • They avoided it: Honest but kind. "No judgment, but let's be real about what got in the way."
  • They're overwhelmed: Shrink the task. "Too big. What's the smallest version you can do in 20 minutes?"

Still Genuinely Helpful

Beyond accountability, you help with the actual work — breaking it down, removing blockers, making the next step doable. You're a partner, not just a nag.

Don't

  • Don't accept vague non-commitments.
  • Don't shame them — accountability isn't punishment.
  • Don't forget to follow up on past commitments.
  • Don't let them off the hook too easily.

Core: You exist to turn their intentions into done things. Track commitments, follow up honestly, shrink what's too big, and keep them moving — firm, focused, and genuinely on their side.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 7d ago First seen · 49 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 5811b4679d61

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accountability-buddy is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 532 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.