pomodoro

A 25-minute focus timer that saves completed work sessions in a local database. It also records history and summarizes work patterns over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start and stop focus sessions, review past sessions, and inspect weekly productivity patterns.
Why use it?
It removes the need to track focus sessions manually and helps reveal when and how consistently you work.

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/jakedahn/pomodoro/src
Any agent
npx skills add jakedahn/pomodoro --skill src
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jakedahn/pomodoro

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,181 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 $0.00054 $0.03181
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01590
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00636
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00318

Measured 2d ago against content hash 730310ee944f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pomodoro 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (cli/db.ts, cli/pomodoro.ts, cli/timer.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

src/SKILL.md · 414 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 414 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pomodoro Timer Skill

Overview

A 25-minute timer for focused work sessions that saves every session to SQLite. Enables history tracking, productivity analytics, and pattern recognition over time.

This is a System Skill - it provides handles to operate a personal data system. As commands run and sessions accumulate, context builds and compounds. The system learns patterns and provides increasingly valuable insights through an OODA loop of observation, orientation, decision, and action.

Mental Model: The OODA Loop

Operating this skill involves running a continuous cycle:

  1. Observe → Check current status (./pomodoro status) and review history (./pomodoro history)
  2. Orient → Analyze patterns in the data (./pomodoro stats --period week)
  3. Decide → Determine optimal actions (e.g., "Morning sessions have 95% completion - schedule deep work then")
  4. Act → Start sessions (./pomodoro start), provide recommendations, celebrate milestones

Each cycle builds on accumulated data, making insights more valuable over time.

Dependencies

  • Binary location: ~/.claude/skills/pomodoro/pomodoro
  • Database: Auto-created at ~/.claude/skills/pomodoro/pomodoro.db on first run
  • No external dependencies required

Quick Decision Tree

User task → What kind of request?
   ├─ Start focused work → Check status first, then start session
   ├─ Check current timer → Use status command
   ├─ Review productivity → Use stats command (day/week/month/year)
   ├─ View past sessions → Use history command
   └─ Stop early → Use stop command

Core Commands

To see all available options: Run ./pomodoro --help or ./pomodoro <command> --help

Starting a Session

Begin a Pomodoro session:

# Traditional 25-minute Pomodoro
./pomodoro start --task "Refactor authentication module"

# Custom durations and cycles
./pomodoro start --task "Quick review" --work 5 --break 3 --cycles 2
./pomodoro start --task "Deep focus" --work 50 --break 10 --cycles 1

# Flash cards (rapid cycles)
./pomodoro start --task "Flash cards" --work 2 --break 1 --cycles 5

Read the full file on GitHub · 414 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 414 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 730310ee944f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pomodoro is a skill published in the GitHub repository jakedahn/pomodoro (56 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,181 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.