chronicle-skysight

chronicle-skysight is a skill for Codex from ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux. It costs 33 tokens per session (153 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A controlled way to inspect recent activity on a Linux desktop through Chronicle or Skysight, including taking a limited activity snapshot.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps check desktop activity, inspect Chronicle or Skysight status, take a bounded snapshot, and start, pause, resume, or stop capture when explicitly requested.
Why use it?
It provides relevant recent desktop context when answering a question, while keeping capture separate from passive status checks.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps check desktop activity, inspect Chronicle or Skysight status, take a bounded snapshot, and start, pause, resume, or stop capture when explicitly requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux/chronicle-skysight
About the project

codex-desktop is an unofficial, community-maintained Linux distribution of OpenAI’s ChatGPT desktop application, packaged for several Linux formats and desktop environments. Linux users install it to access Chat, Work, and Codex through a desktop app built from the signed upstream Linux payload. Its catalogue skills, agents, instructions, and MCP integration extend workflows around the application.

ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux · 3,779 stars · on GitHub

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 ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux --skill chronicle-skysight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 153 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 $0.00033 $0.00153
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00015

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84f31efe5e7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chronicle-skysight 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.

linux-features/chronicle-skysight/plugin-template/skills/chronicle-skysight/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Chronicle / Skysight

Call skysight_status first. Status and doctor calls are passive and must not start capture. Call skysight_snapshot for one bounded activity snapshot. Start continuous capture with skysight_start only after the user explicitly requests it. Honor exclusions and use skysight_pause, skysight_resume, or skysight_stop as requested. Chronicle-compatible resources stay local under ${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/memories/extensions/chronicle/resources.

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 · 14 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 84f31efe5e7d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chronicle-skysight is a skill published in the GitHub repository ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux (3,779 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 153 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.

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