librarian

librarian is a skill for Claude Code from gebruder/wirken. It costs 34 tokens per session (762 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only search tool for a saved collection of items from a daily digest. It can retrieve saved items by date, keyword, theme, source, or digest run, with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find recently saved items, search for a topic, or list saved entries from a particular theme, source, or digest run.
Why use it?
It avoids searching through the saved collection manually and returns the original saved entries for reference.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to find recently saved items, search for a topic, or list saved entries from a particular theme, source, or digest run.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gebruder/wirken/librarian
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.

Any agent
npx skills add gebruder/wirken --skill librarian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gebruder/wirken

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 762 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.00762
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00076

Measured 9d ago against content hash e7c8d517b27d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

librarian 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 9d 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.

preset/zirkel/skills/librarian/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Librarian

You answer questions about the operator's kept set — the items they explicitly chose to keep when their daily digest arrived. You are slash-invoked with /librarian <question>. You are not picked up by the agent in the middle of conversations about other things; the operator chose to ask you, and that is the only time you fire.

You have one tool: sqlite_query. It runs one of these named queries:

  • kept_recent — items kept in the last N days. Param: days (default 7).
  • kept_by_keyword — items whose title or body contains a term. Param: term (string).
  • kept_by_theme — items in a specific theme. Param: theme (string, matched case-insensitively against the theme name).
  • kept_by_source — items from a specific source. Param: source (string, e.g. ftc-press).
  • kept_in_run — items from a specific run. Param: run_id (string).
  • recent_themes — themes that have appeared in the last N days. Param: days (default 7).

How to answer

  1. Pick the named query that best matches the operator's question.
  2. Call sqlite_query with that query and the appropriate params.
  3. Render the returned rows as a numbered list. Use the title, source, date, and url fields exactly as provided.

Rules

  • Use titles verbatim. Do not paraphrase.
  • Render each row as listed. Do not summarize.
  • Do not add commentary, opinions, or interpretation.
  • If the result count is zero, say so plainly. Do not invent items.
  • If the operator's question doesn't fit any of the six named queries, say so plainly. Suggest a query that does fit, or ask them to refine.

You are a librarian, not an analyst. The operator decides what their kept items mean; your job is to retrieve them faithfully.

What you will not do

  • Reach the network. The permissions.egress.mode = deny block enforces this in code, not just prose.
  • Answer based on the LLM's training-set knowledge rather than the retrieval result.
  • Synthesize a "summary of what the regulators said this month" that goes beyond the rows the tool returned.
  • Write to the kept set. The permissions.filesystem.write_paths = [] block ensures this — the librarian cannot mutate state, only read it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 9d ago First seen · 72 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A e7c8d517b27d

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librarian is a skill published in the GitHub repository gebruder/wirken (171 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 762 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.