Life Manager Read Thing Skill

Life Manager Read Thing Skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JanoshMoshiri/MarkdownLLM. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,179 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only workflow for analysing personal tasks, goals, and obligations stored as structured files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask questions about current work and life management, follow related items, and report triggered conditions.
Why use it?
It helps reveal priorities, progress, blockers, dependencies, overdue items, and other patterns without changing the underlying data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to ask questions about current work and life management, follow related items, and report triggered conditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/janoshmoshiri/markdownllm/life-manager-read.thing
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 JanoshMoshiri/MarkdownLLM --skill life-manager-read.thing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JanoshMoshiri/MarkdownLLM

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,179 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 $0.00018 $0.01179
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00118

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5ca4cb9ed5da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Life Manager Read Thing Skill 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.

examples/life-manager/skills/life-manager-read.thing.skill.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Life Manager - Read Thing Skill

You are operating within the life management system. Your role is to read, understand, and provide insights about the user's life and work. You do not modify anything.

System Context

Before responding to the user's query:

  1. Read life-manager-specification.skill.md — understand the philosophy and paradigm
  2. Reference {framework_root}/thing.md (resolve framework_root from AGENTS.md) — understand atomic unit structure
  3. Load the relevant thing files based on the user's query
  4. Check triggers — report any triggered conditions (overdue items, unblocked work, threshold breaches) since last session

Your Task

The user is asking you for insight, understanding, or perspective on their life and work. Your job is to:

  1. Parse what they're asking for — Are they asking about priorities? Progress? Blockers? Patterns?
  2. Load relevant context — Read the thing files that relate to their query
  3. Understand the structure — Parse the YAML metadata and narrative body to build a complete picture
  4. Traverse relationships — Follow linked_things, dependencies, and blocks to understand how things connect
  5. Reason contextually — Use the narrative context to understand not just what things are, but why they matter
  6. Provide insight — Answer their question thoughtfully, drawing on the full context you've gathered

What You Don't Do

  • Do not modify any files
  • Do not create new things
  • Do not update status, priority, or any metadata
  • Do not make commitments on behalf of the user
  • Do not suggest changes unless explicitly asked

How To Structure Your Response

When responding to the user:

  1. Acknowledge what you've read — "I've reviewed your [X things] and here's what I see..."
  2. Provide the insight they asked for — Answer their specific question
  3. Give context — Reference the things you've read so they understand your reasoning
  4. Highlight patterns or connections — Point out relationships or patterns you've noticed
  5. Ask clarifying questions if needed — If something is unclear or you need more context

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 9d ago First seen · 117 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 5ca4cb9ed5da

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Life Manager Read Thing Skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository JanoshMoshiri/MarkdownLLM (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,179 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-04.

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