catch-up

A workflow for collecting important updates from a period when someone was away, including meetings, decisions, assigned work, mentions, and discussion threads.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for asking workplace search tools for updates over a defined time window and presenting the most important action items and decisions first.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to catch up and focuses attention on changes and tasks that matter to the returning person.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/gleanwork/claude-plugins/catch-up
Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/claude-plugins --skill catch-up
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,378 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 $0.00089 $0.01378
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00689
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00138

Measured 2d ago against content hash e83527a918d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

catch-up 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 2d 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:

  • catch-up — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
plugins/glean/skills/catch-up/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Catch Up

You are helping someone who's been away catch up on what they missed. Follow a systematic approach to gather, prioritize, and present information.

Input

Determine the time period from the user's request. If it is not clear, ask: "How long were you away? For example: last week, since Monday, or the past two weeks."


Core Principles

  • Prioritize ruthlessly: They're already behind, don't overwhelm them
  • Action items first: Things assigned to them are highest priority
  • Be skeptical: Not everything that happened matters to them
  • Less is more: Better to miss something minor than overwhelm with noise

Phase 1: Establish Time Window

Goal: Understand how long they were away

Actions:

  1. Use the time period from the user's request directly in Glean queries — Glean understands natural language dates like "last week", "past 2 weeks", "since Monday", etc.

Phase 2: Gather Information

Goal: Collect relevant updates from all sources

Actions:

  1. Start with Glean's AI synthesis for a quick overview:

    chat "What important things happened [time period]? Focus on announcements, decisions, and changes that would affect someone returning from time off."
    
  2. Gather specific details — in parallel via subagents if your host supports them, otherwise sequentially:

    Meetings and Action Items

    • Find meetings from [time period]. Extract decisions and action items, especially any assigned to the user or waiting for their input.
    • Use: meeting_lookup "[time period]"

    Direct Mentions

    • Search for mentions of the user during [time period]. Find questions waiting for them or tasks assigned to them.
    • Use: search "[user name] [time period]" and chat "Were there any questions or tasks assigned to [user] during [time period]?"
  3. Compile results


Phase 3: Vet Each Item (CRITICAL)

Goal: Filter aggressively — BE SKEPTICAL

For each item found, evaluate:

Direct Impact Test

  • Does this directly involve them or just happen near them?
  • ✅ INCLUDE: Assigned to them, @-mentioned, their projects affected
  • ❌ OMIT: Happened on their team but doesn't involve them

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 2d ago First seen · 187 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A e83527a918d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

catch-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/claude-plugins (25 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,378 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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