kairos-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/kairos/SKILL.md

kairos is a skill for Claude Code from jakub-plichcinski/kairos-mcp. It costs 151 tokens per session (1,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An internal action-routing system for coding agents. It uses a connected KAIROS server to send requested actions through a recorded sequence and return the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Routing action requests through the activate, forward, and reward steps when the KAIROS server is available.
Why use it?
It gives the team a consistent, traceable process for carrying out actions such as writing, creating, or building.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is jakub-plichcinski/kairos-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kairos-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kairos-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jakub-plichcinski/kairos-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakub-plichcinski/kairos-mcp/main/.agents/skills/kairos/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jakub-plichcinski/kairos-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,171 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.
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 $0.00151 $0.01171
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00117

Measured 2d ago against content hash bbd76acbbcaf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kairos 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.

.agents/skills/kairos/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KAIROS — Action Routing (Agent-Internal)

This skill is for the agent, not the human. KAIROS is the agent's institutional memory — a team runbook that bridges the gap between your training data and this team's actual conventions. Humans should never need to know KAIROS exists.

When the server is available and authenticated, autonomously route action intents through the activateforwardreward chain. The MCP tool calls are visible in IDE panels and logs — that is intentional. Humans can observe passively, but they should never need to act on or interact with KAIROS directly.

How routing works (summary)

  1. Detect action intent in the user message.
  2. Call activate with a short query (3-8 words describing the intent).
  3. Follow the returned choice's next_action field through forward calls (one per adapter layer) until the chain indicates reward.
  4. Call reward to finalize the run.
  5. Respond to the user or continue with implementation as directed by the adapter output.

Always complete the full chain before responding to the user or starting substantive work. An incomplete chain is not a valid stopping point.

Echo verbatim. Server-generated URIs, nonces, hashes, IDs, must_obey, and next_action are authoritative. Do not recompute or alter them. For real MCP calls, the connected server's tool names and schemas are the runtime authority.

Reference index

Read the reference that matches the task; keep this SKILL.md as the concise router.

  • Action routing (full protocol) — the complete routing discipline: when to route vs. execute directly, chain execution rules, proof types, safety/validation, and the unavailability procedure. Read this before routing any action intent.
  • Install (global npm, stdio) — first-time end-user setup: npm install -g @jakub-plichcinski/kairos-mcp then kairos serve against a localhost Qdrant, embedding backend, and host mcp.json.
  • Updates — refresh the npm CLI (@latest) and installed skills (npx skills update).
  • Bug report — capture a structured MCP bug report when a KAIROS tool misbehaves.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 Changed bbd76acbbcaf
  2. 11d ago First seen · 89 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 87e48edf2185

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kairos is a skill published in the GitHub repository jakub-plichcinski/kairos-mcp (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 1,171 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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