groom

groom is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,173 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance tool for reviewing a Sidequest work board and finding tickets that are finished, outdated, duplicated, replaced, or abandoned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for regular board audits, safely closing tickets with evidence, releasing inactive claims, and identifying work that was completed without a ticket.
Why use it?
It keeps the board aligned with what has really happened in the code and surfaces uncertain cases instead of silently discarding them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sidequest plugin — 5 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed/groom
Any agent
npx skills add Eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed --skill groom
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sidequest, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,173 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 $0.00037 $0.03173
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01587
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00635
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00317

Measured 5d ago against content hash 38aa1a4f691d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

groom 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 5d 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.

plugins/sidequest/skills/groom/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

groom

A grooming pass is a periodic reality check on the board, not a one-off cleanup. Tickets drift: a fix lands but the ticket stays open, a decision supersedes an old plan, an agent claims something and goes idle, two tickets describe the same work from different sessions, or a real chunk of work landed in the repo with no ticket ever filed for it. This skill runs that check end to end: sweep, categorize, act on what's safe, ask about what isn't, apply the answers, report.

Reference pass this is modeled on: the 2026-07-07 temporal-RL grooming pass — 17 tickets closed with evidence-bearing notes, several dead claims released, and new frontier tickets filed with depends-on links for the work that had already been decided but never ticketed. That's the shape a good pass takes: mostly mechanical cleanup, a handful of real judgment calls surfaced to the user, nothing silently dropped.

Guardrails (non-negotiable)

  • Never sidequest rm a ticket. Closing means an evidence-bearing sidequest groom-close <ref> --reason <evidence>, not deletion. This explicit control-plane operation is for board grooming only; routed executor done cannot close released repository work. If a ticket is genuinely bogus (duplicate, never should have existed), close it with a comment explaining why — the record stays, just off the active board.
  • Never touch a claim held by an active agent. Age is not evidence of death: a 5-hour claim can be a working executor. Only release a claim the board itself calls reclaimable — pulse <ref> reports claim.reclaimable (observed_stop, idle, or abandoned), and claims sweep releases exactly those. If it is null, leave the claim alone even if you don't recognize the --by — another session may genuinely be mid-work. Never pass --force to release or claim during a grooming pass; force overrides a live claim, which is exactly what this guardrail forbids.
  • Every closure needs evidence. A ticket only moves to done (or gets marked superseded) with a comment that cites something concrete — a commit hash, a file path, a doc section, or a quoted decision from another ticket's thread. "Looks done" is not evidence; git log --oneline -- <path> turning up the actual commit is.
  • Don't guess on the unclear ones. Anything you can't back with evidence goes to the interactive round below instead of being closed or left open on a hunch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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. 5d ago First seen · 230 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 38aa1a4f691d

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groom is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed (37 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,173 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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