things

things is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emanueleielo/ciana-parrot. It costs 35 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for managing Things 3, a task and project manager for Apple devices, through its macOS command-line bridge. It can read and search tasks and create or update them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps manage inbox, today, upcoming, project, area, and tag items, and add tasks with notes, deadlines, lists, or checklist items.
Why use it?
It lets a coding agent work with Things tasks without switching manually between the agent and the app.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps manage inbox, today, upcoming, project, area, and tag items, and add tasks with notes, deadlines, lists, or checklist items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot/things
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add emanueleielo/ciana-parrot --skill things
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emanueleielo/ciana-parrot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 427 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 $0.00035 $0.00427
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 11d ago against content hash c706012cf986, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

things 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 11d 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/things/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

Things 3

Use the things bridge to manage Things 3 via the things CLI on the host.

When to Use

  • User asks to add a task or todo to Things
  • Listing inbox, today, upcoming tasks
  • Searching tasks or projects
  • Managing Things areas and tags

When NOT to Use

  • Apple Reminders -> use apple-reminders bridge
  • Notion/Trello tasks -> use those skills instead
  • Ciana scheduled tasks -> use schedule_task tool

Commands

All commands run via host_execute(bridge="things", command="...").

Read (from DB)

things inbox --limit 50
things today
things upcoming
things search "query"
things projects
things areas
things tags

Add Todos

things add "Buy milk"
things add "Call mom" --notes "about dinner" --when today
things add "Meeting prep" --deadline 2026-02-15
things add "Book flights" --list "Travel"
things add "Trip prep" --checklist-item "Passport" --checklist-item "Tickets"

Update Todos (needs auth token)

things search "milk" --limit 5           # Get UUID
things update --id <UUID> "New title"
things update --id <UUID> --completed
things update --id <UUID> --notes "New notes"

Setup (on host)

  • Install: GOBIN=/opt/homebrew/bin go install github.com/ossianhempel/things3-cli/cmd/things@latest
  • Grant Full Disk Access to Terminal/gateway process
  • Optional: set THINGS_AUTH_TOKEN env var for update operations
  • Uncomment things bridge in config.yaml, restart gateway
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. 11d ago First seen · 65 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A c706012cf986

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things is a skill published in the GitHub repository emanueleielo/ciana-parrot (77 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 427 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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