ai-chief-of-staff: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/sync/SKILL.md

sync is a skill for Claude Code from jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff. It costs 23 tokens per session (286 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short checkpoint routine for long coding-agent sessions. It saves important session decisions, checks whether task lists and project status have drifted, and rotates the working context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update session memory, review Command Center and To-Do changes, and propose new waiting or follow-up tasks.
Why use it?
It helps preserve useful context during sessions lasting several hours and identifies changes that may need to be recorded or approved.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

This is jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-chief-of-staff 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 ai-chief-of-staff configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff. 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/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff/main/.claude/skills/sync/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 286 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 $0.00023 $0.00286
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00029

Measured 12d ago against content hash aa6cbc3d5668, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sync 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 12d 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.

.claude/skills/sync/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Mid-session checkpoint. Optional. Most short sessions don't need it. Long sessions (2+ hours) usually do.

Save to memory

Update existing files in .claude/memory/ rather than creating new ones. The four core files are user_profile.md, preferences.md, projects.md, session_context.md. As the system grows, additional files follow the type-prefix convention (user_*.md, feedback_*.md, project_*.md, reference_*.md); see docs/memory.md.

For session_context.md: prepend the new entry at the top with today's date. Scan the file and remove any entries older than 7 days. Keep it current.

Check Command Center and To-Do drift

If something we worked on this session has shifted lane status, priorities, or the state check, propose specific edits and ask before making them. Don't edit silently.

If new tasks emerged or new waiting-for items came up, propose adding them to To-Do.md (rows in the Waiting For table for the latter) and ask before adding.

Keep it short. The point is to save the one or two real decisions from the last hour, not to rewrite everything.

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. 12d ago First seen · 22 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A aa6cbc3d5668

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff (100 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 286 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 2026-08-30.

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