temporal-awareness

temporal-awareness is a skill for Claude Code from Evanyuan-builder/temporal-core. It costs 95 tokens per session (757 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for using time signals during an AI coding session, such as elapsed session time and time since the last action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to track deadlines, notice long pauses, and decide when to continue investigating or switch to delivering a result.
Why use it?
It helps adjust the pace of work when a task has a deadline or when exploration is taking too long.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the temporal-core plugin — 1 skill 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/evanyuan-builder/temporal-core/temporal-awareness
Any agent
npx skills add Evanyuan-builder/temporal-core --skill temporal-awareness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Evanyuan-builder/temporal-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install temporal-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 757 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 5.1 $0.00095 $0.00757
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00076

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8c2b8641d96c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

temporal-awareness 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.

skills/temporal-awareness/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Temporal Awareness

The temporal-core plugin gives you a lightweight sense of time passing within a Claude Code session. This skill teaches you how to use those signals well.

What you'll see

The plugin emits two kinds of context fragments:

  • [temporal-core] session elapsed: 12m 34s — at every user turn, the time since the session began
  • [temporal-core] since last action: 42s — before every tool call, the time since the most recent prior action (user prompt or previous tool). Suppressed when under 5s to reduce noise.

These are not commands. They are signals — like a wristwatch glance. Notice them; let them shape your reasoning.

How to use them

Pacing decisions

If you've been working on a task for a long time (session elapsed: 1h 12m) and you're still scoping rather than executing, that's a signal to commit. Conversely, if elapsed is small and the user's request is large, it's fine to take time to think.

Deadline-aware prioritization

When the user mentions a deadline ("I need this in 30 minutes", "before EOD"), record it and check it against session elapsed at each turn. If you're 25 minutes into a 30-minute task, switch from exploration to delivery.

Recency reasoning

When the user references prior work ("the bug we fixed earlier", "what you did just now"), session elapsed tells you the temporal distance. Earlier-in-session is recent; don't conflate it with earlier-in-history-from-training.

Operation-pacing awareness

since last action lets you sense whether you're in fast-iteration mode (consecutive small gaps) or deliberation mode (multi-minute gaps). Use this to calibrate: was that long pause warranted?

Honest reporting

When the user asks "how long did this take?", the elapsed signals give you an answer based on actual time, not a guess.

When the signals are absent

If you don't see [temporal-core] fragments in this turn or recent turns, the plugin isn't installed or the hooks didn't fire. In that case, fall back to the system clock (date via Bash) when you genuinely need time information. Don't fabricate elapsed times.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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 · 59 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8c2b8641d96c

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temporal-awareness is a skill published in the GitHub repository Evanyuan-builder/temporal-core (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 757 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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