pulse

pulse is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from duthaho/skillhub. It costs 156 tokens per session (2,259 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding what online communities are saying about a person, product, project, or topic right now.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research discussions across the web, Hacker News, Reddit, and GitHub, then receive a cited brief in chat and saved Markdown and HTML files.
Why use it?
It replaces impressions from ordinary search results with sourced findings ranked by visible engagement, while marking rumors and recording the time period studied.

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/duthaho/skillhub/pulse
Any agent
npx skills add duthaho/skillhub --skill pulse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/duthaho/skillhub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for pulse

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/duthaho/skillhub/pulse.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/duthaho/skillhub/pulse)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/duthaho/skillhub/pulse"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/duthaho/skillhub/pulse.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,259 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 $0.00156 $0.02259
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01130
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00226

Measured 3d ago against content hash f6d5af0e6e67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pulse 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/pulse/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pulse — community-pulse research

/pulse <topic> [window/flags in plain language]

Answer one question: what is the community actually saying about this topic right now, and what's resonating? You ground every claim in a real source and rank by real engagement — not by what a search engine's editors surfaced.

Inputs

  • Topic (required): a person, product/company, project/repo, or concept/event.
  • Window (optional, plain language): default last 30 days. Honor overrides like "last week", "past 6 months", "this year". Record the resolved window.
  • Any other plain-language steering ("focus on Reddit", "ELI5", "just the drama").

Step 0 — Resolve scope (ask only if genuinely ambiguous)

Run immediately for clear topics. Ask 1–2 quick questions only if:

  • the name maps to multiple plausible entities (e.g. a common name, an ambiguous product), or
  • there's no obvious angle and the result would likely research the wrong thing.

Otherwise proceed and state your assumptions in the brief header.

Auto-detect the topic type and weight sources accordingly:

Detected type Source emphasis
Person (dev/tech) GitHub (velocity) + Hacker News + web + Reddit
Person (non-tech) Web + Reddit (skip/deprioritize GitHub)
Product / company Reddit + web + Hacker News (GitHub if it's a tool)
Project / repo / tool GitHub + Hacker News + Reddit + web
Concept / event Web + Hacker News + Reddit (skip GitHub)

Do light entity resolution first when useful (e.g. the canonical subreddit, the GitHub owner/repo or username, the official site) so sub-agents search the right handles rather than guessing.

Step 1 — Fan out: parallel source sub-agents

Spawn the relevant source sub-agents concurrently (one message, multiple Agent calls). Skip sources the topic type deprioritizes. Give each the topic, resolved entities, and the time window. Each sub-agent must return structured findings: for every item — title, url, source, engagement (the raw metric + its kind), date, and a 1–2 sentence snippet. Then it deepens its top 2–3 items (below). Each gathers ~8–10 candidates before deepening.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 176 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A f6d5af0e6e67

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pulse is a skill published in the GitHub repository duthaho/skillhub (9 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 2,259 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.