dream

A scheduled knowledge-base maintenance workflow that turns meeting notes and session captures into organized, lasting information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process yesterday's records, update existing topic documents, archive stale information, and produce an audit report.
Why use it?
It keeps a knowledge base current by resolving conflicts, removing outdated entries, and fixing formatting or link problems without waiting for manual approval.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/drn/dots/dream
Any agent
npx skills add drn/dots --skill dream
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,569 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 $0.00083 $0.06569
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.03284
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00657

Measured 2d ago against content hash 10b37447dc46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dream 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.

agents/skills/dream/SKILL.md · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dream — Scheduled Knowledge Base Maintenance

Audit the argus-kb knowledge base, then apply every fix without confirmation: ingest yesterday's meetings and session captures into the inbox, distill those raw captures into knowledge inside existing topical docs, resolve conflicting facts in favor of the most recent, archive entries that have aged out, and fix schema/link/naming violations. Dream is a scheduled task — it must never block on user input.

Translate raw data into knowledge. A session transcript or meeting summary is signal, not knowledge. Dream's job is to extract the durable facts (decisions, people changes, conventions, gotchas) and merge them into the topical docs that already track each subject. Filing the raw note is a fallback when nothing distillable was captured — not the goal.

Operating principle

Decide and apply. Dream runs unattended. There is no human in the loop, no confirmation prompt, no "flag for manual review" backstop. When a fix is ambiguous, make the best-available judgment, apply it, and log the decision in the report. The report is the audit trail; the KB itself is the result.

The only escape hatch is --dry-run for previewing what dream would do.

No TTS. Dream runs as an unattended scheduled task with no one present to hear a spoken summary. This overrides any global "speak aloud on task completion" habit — skip TTS entirely for this skill, including at Phase 8.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS — Optional flags and scoping:
    • --dry-run — report all proposed actions without applying them (the only mode that does not write to the KB)
    • A path prefix (no leading --) to scope the audit (e.g. work/)

Context

  • Argus KB available: !command -v argus 2>/dev/null | head -1
  • Recent changes since last dream run: !tail -100 ~/.dots/sys/kb-changes/changes.jsonl 2>/dev/null | head -100
  • Last dream run: !ls -t ~/.dots/sys/dream-runs 2>/dev/null | head -1
  • Today's date: !date +%Y-%m-%d

MCP tool naming

Read the full file on GitHub · 361 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. 2d ago First seen · 361 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 10b37447dc46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dream is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 6,569 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 2026-08-30.

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