gather

gather is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jesseposner/metacraft. It costs 20 tokens per session (423 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A session-reset guide for collecting decisions, notes, unfinished work, and useful lessons during a coding project. It also covers updating project records and preparing a clean handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a context switch, handoff, or new phase to review the conversation, record stable information, update project notes, and preserve completed work.
Why use it?
It prevents important context from being lost when a session becomes busy or when work moves to another person or agent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before a context switch, handoff, or new phase to review the conversation, record stable information, update project notes, and preserve completed work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jesseposner/metacraft/gather
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 jesseposner/metacraft --skill gather
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jesseposner/metacraft

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 423 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 $0.00020 $0.00423
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00169
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d590e97e693b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gather 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 2mo 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.

skills/gather/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Gather

Pause and reset. Gather what's scattered, commit what's ready, and prepare for what's next.

What this is

A mid-session meditation. Pause the forward motion, collect everything that's scattered, and lay a clean foundation for the next push. This isn't closing. It's composting.

When to use it

  • When a session has accumulated uncaptured decisions, insights, or state changes
  • Before a context switch or handoff
  • When momentum has outrun bookkeeping
  • When you feel the itch to start something new but the ground isn't clean

The pattern

  1. Mine the conversation. Review the session so far for uncaptured items: decisions made but not recorded, insights worth preserving, things said that should be written down. Surface anything found before filing it.

  2. Tend the memory. Check if any stable patterns, corrections, or lessons emerged that belong in project memory or persistent files. Update as needed.

  3. Update project notes. If the project has a journal, changelog, or session log, ensure it covers what happened. Name the arc if there is one. Note what's still open.

  4. Persist the work. Stage changes, write a clear commit message, sync with the remote if appropriate. The goal is a clean, resumable state.

  5. Report. Confirm what was captured, what was persisted, and what the ground looks like now. Brief, not exhaustive. The audience is the next session, not a stakeholder.

Anti-patterns

  • Manufacturing ceremony. If the session has been light, keep it proportional. Don't invent work to justify the pause.
  • Leaving things unnamed. If something feels unfinished but can't be resolved now, name it explicitly. Unfinished is fine. Untracked is not.
  • Treating this as a status report. The goal is to leave nothing behind that matters and nothing in the way that doesn't.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A d590e97e693b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gather is a skill published in the GitHub repository jesseposner/metacraft (11 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 423 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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