automate-me

automate-me is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericlitman/open-pstack. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,866 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for turning a developer’s working habits into a reusable instruction set for coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or updating a personal working-style skill by examining existing instructions, gathering evidence from past work, and refining the result.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeat personal preferences and helps agents follow an established way of working across tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pstack plugin — 52 skills, 12 agents, 1 hook 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/ericlitman/open-pstack/automate-me
Any agent
npx skills add ericlitman/open-pstack --skill automate-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericlitman/open-pstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 12 agents, 1 hook.

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 automate-me

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericlitman/open-pstack/automate-me.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericlitman/open-pstack/automate-me)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericlitman/open-pstack/automate-me"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericlitman/open-pstack/automate-me.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,866 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 $0.00072 $0.01866
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00933
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00187

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0052c5502231, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automate-me 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/pstack/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Automate me

A guided flow for turning the user's working conventions into a skill agents will follow. The output is one -mode skill tailored to them (e.g. jay-mode, priya-mode).

This skill orchestrates three others: an inline mining pass (see step 1), the plugin-dev:skill-development skill (authoring), and the unslop skill (prose discipline). It sequences them; it doesn't replace them.

Platform note. On Codex or another non-Claude runtime, the Claude tool names, claude-* slugs, and Claude built-in skills named below (including plugin-dev:skill-development) are Claude defaults. Resolve them via codex-tools.md.

Flow

0. Check for an existing skill

Look recursively for .claude/skills/**/*-mode/SKILL.md and ~/.claude/skills/*-mode/SKILL.md matching the user's handle. Mode skills can live in a personal category directory (.claude/skills/<handle>/), not only at the top level. If one exists, confirm intent with AskUserQuestion (unless they already said "update my skill" or similar):

  • Update the existing skill (default for repeat runs)
  • Start fresh (rare; ask why before doing it)

Update mode changes the rest of the flow:

  • Step 1 mines only history since the skill was last edited (git log -1 --format=%cI <path>).
  • Step 2 asks what's changed or missing, not what to capture from zero.
  • Step 4 edits the existing file in place. Preserve sections the user hasn't contradicted; revise ones with new evidence; add new sections only for genuinely new rules.

1. Mine their history

Locate the active workspace's transcripts before fanning out. Claude Code stores them at ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/*.jsonl, where <encoded-cwd> is the workspace's working directory with /-. Use only that path. Don't glob across ~/.claude/projects/. That crosses workspace boundaries and reads private chats from unrelated projects.

Survey recent agent conversations within that scope for recurring patterns. Run multiple parallel subagents across slices of history (e.g. last 2-4 weeks, split into 3 slices so each has enough material). Each slice mining subagent reads transcripts from the workspace-scoped path the parent provides, looks for the signals below, and returns a short structured list of patterns it saw with evidence pointers. Default signals worth hunting:

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 0052c5502231

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automate-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericlitman/open-pstack (206 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,866 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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