What is clockify-start-timer?

A skill for starting a running Clockify timer for the current repository. Clockify is a service that records how long you spend on work.

Clocking in, starting work on an issue, and optionally starting the timer from an earlier time.

It starts tracking according to the repository’s configured project, task, description, rounding, and overlap rules.

clockify-start-timer — Skill by dustinestes

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/dustinestes/clockify-agent-plugin/clockify-start-timer

Any agent

npx skills add dustinestes/clockify-agent-plugin --skill clockify-start-timer

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dustinestes/clockify-agent-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 798 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00062	$0.00798
Opus 5	$0.00031	$0.00399
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.00160
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00080

Measured yesterday against content hash 731bd08395d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clockify-start-timer 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 yesterday.

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/clockify-start-timer/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clockify start timer

Interactive Timer method (entry_method: timer). Agent-mediated starts belong to clockify-automate (that path passes entry_method: automated).

Config-aware behavior

If config_root is already known this session and still this repo, reuse it. Otherwise resolve once with git rev-parse --show-toplevel from the working directory (open tabs are not required; multi-root: focused path only as a tie-breaker). Re-resolve when the folder or focused root changes. Pass that string on Clockify MCP calls — do not run git before every tool.
clockify_get_config with config_root. If found, honor timer.description, timer.task, timer.rounding / include_seconds (the start tool applies them), and timer.overlap.
Never invent project/task ids — clockify_list_projects / clockify_ensure_project / clockify_ensure_task first (all with config_root).
Description: if timer.description.from is prompt, ask or use what they said. If template, pass issue_number / issue_title / github_label and omit description so the template applies. Default template {issue_number} - {issue_title} → #N - title. Do not put a literal # before {issue_number}.

Workflow

clockify_get_running_timer with config_root.
- Same work already running (same issue / same description): report it. Do not stop or start again.
- Anything else running (including inactivity pastThreshold): do not stop yet. Show description, project, duration (and inactivity if past threshold). Ask whether to stop it and start the new one. Only stop-then-start after they confirm. If they decline, leave the running timer.
- Nothing running: continue.
Resolve project: user name, config repo name, or list/ensure.
Resolve task from timer.task.from:
- prompt — ask (or none).
- github_label — ensure_task when if_missing is create and a label is known; prompt or skip per if_missing. No label → no task.
- repo — use repoName from clockify_get_config (git toplevel folder name). ensure_task when if_missing is create; prompt or skip per if_missing.
- none — no task.
clockify_start_timer with config_root, entry_method: timer, project_id, optional task_id, description or issue fields, and optional start (ISO) if they asked to backdate.
If the tool returns overlap: true, show the clash. Retry with confirm_overlap: true only if they agree (or timer.overlap.on_conflict is override).

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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.

yesterday First seen · 43 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 731bd08395d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clockify-start-timer is a skill published in the GitHub repository dustinestes/clockify-agent-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 798 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.

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