ambient-context-standup

ambient-context-standup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dragthelake/ambient-context. It costs 51 tokens per session (325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template for writing a daily standup or status update from an Ambient Context work record. It turns recorded work into short Yesterday, Today, and, when needed, Blocked sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft a message for Slack or Linear about recent work, today's tasks, commitments, and recorded blockers.
Why use it?
It avoids inventing progress and saves time when summarising what actually happened.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to draft a message for Slack or Linear about recent work, today's tasks, commitments, and recorded blockers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragthelake/ambient-context/ambient-context-standup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dragthelake/ambient-context --skill ambient-context-standup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dragthelake/ambient-context

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 325 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 $0.00051 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash 89c8fc1dd6da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ambient-context-standup 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 2d 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/ambient-context-standup/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Standup

Follow the ambient-context skill's conventions.

Steps

  1. list_days, then read_summary for the most recent working day before today. Skip weekend days unless the record shows work on them.
  2. read_summary for today if one exists; otherwise read_day with file set to apps for today and read the headings only.
  3. read_kb with file set to commitments.md for that day, for anything promised to someone.

Reply

Three short sections, first person, plain sentences the user could paste into Slack or Linear without editing:

  • Yesterday. What moved, by project. Outcomes over activity: "shipped the update slot state machine", not "worked on update.rs for four hours".
  • Today. What the record shows them already on, plus any commitment due.
  • Blocked. Only if the record shows a wait on someone or something. Leave the section out when there is nothing.

Name only work the record shows. If the day is thin, say so rather than pad it. No emoji, no nested bullets, no times unless they matter.

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. 2d ago First seen · 28 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 89c8fc1dd6da

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ambient-context-standup is a skill published in the GitHub repository dragthelake/ambient-context (165 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 325 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 2026-09-07.

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