now-what

now-what is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hon454/grimoire. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A standup-style workflow that inspects signals from the current workspace and recommends the next action.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decide what to do next during active work by checking available workspace signals and following the configured output language.
Why use it?
It turns scattered work information into one practical next step without creating a handoff, implementation plan, status report, or broad backlog review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: SessionStart hook event, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

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/hon454/grimoire/now-what
Any agent
npx skills add hon454/grimoire --skill now-what
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hon454/grimoire

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 now-what

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,220 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 $0.00038 $0.02220
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01110
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00222

Measured 5d ago against content hash d2c541ea5bf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

now-what 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.

plugins/grimoire/skills/now-what/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Now What

Personal standup for an active workspace: inspect current-work signals, recommend the next action, and stop.

Use only when explicitly invoked as $now-what or "use the now-what skill".

Output Locale

Resolve the final-output locale before inspecting sources. Prefer output values from the Grimoire session config cache created by the Grimoire SessionStart hook. Treat the cache file, not hook stdout, as the session config source of truth. Hook stdout may help locate the cache path, but it is only diagnostic.

When the cache is available, use output.locale from the cached session config and include output.locale_source in the locale notice. If no Grimoire session config cache is available, continue by directly observing the host OS preferred locale with deterministic local signals and note the missing session config only if it changes confidence.

If the user explicitly requests a final-output locale with a valid locale tag, pass it as an explicit override to the Grimoire config resolver when available. The resolver does not interpret natural-language locale requests. If no valid locale tag is provided, use Grimoire session config or OS preferred locale detection. This is the only override. Do not infer the final-output locale from conversation prose, tracker text, this skill file, repository prose, tool output, copied templates, or quoted artifacts.

Include one short locale notice before the source notice. State the resolved locale and whether it came from session config, explicit override, or direct OS observation. If the host supports interim messages, send it before inspection; otherwise make it the first line of the final response.

Use the resolved locale for user-facing prose, including notices, section headings, labels, recommendation rationale, and first moves. Preserve code, commands, paths, branch names, issue IDs, PR titles, commit subjects, and other technical identifiers as written after applying the data-handling rules below.

Use tracker values from the Grimoire session config as default tracker hints only. Explicit user refs and directly observed branch, PR, issue, or local diff signals still take precedence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 238 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A d2c541ea5bf7

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now-what is a skill published in the GitHub repository hon454/grimoire (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,220 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 2026-08-31.