closeout

closeout is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jl-cmd/claude-dev-env. It costs 118 tokens per session (2,230 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-end tool that turns problems encountered during development into proposed GitHub issues, each supported by exact quoted evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a work session to document failures, missing capabilities, or other blockers as organized GitHub issues.
Why use it?
It prevents important obstacles from being forgotten or recorded inaccurately. Issues are only filed after you approve their drafts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-dev-env plugin — 45 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env/closeout
Any agent
npx skills add jl-cmd/claude-dev-env --skill closeout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-dev-env, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook.

Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,230 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 $0.00118 $0.02230
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01115
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00223

Measured 3d ago against content hash ac6a8965fd1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

closeout 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 3d 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.

packages/claude-dev-env/.agents/skills-archived/closeout/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Closeout

Core principle: At the end of a working session, turn the obstacles the session hit into user-approved GitHub issues — each backed by a quoted line — then hand each approved draft to the issue-tracker for filing, and print a computed cloud handoff prompt. Closeout never guesses, never files without approval, and never touches the host repo's live pipeline.

The delegation boundary

Closeout is the session-end entry point. It harvests obstacles, validates them with the user, and drafts one issue-candidate record per obstacle. The issue-tracker owns filing: dedup against open and closed issues, one epic per work-stream, native sub-issues, labels, and marker-delimited body sections. Closeout hands each approved record to the issue-tracker agent (primary), falling back to the issue-tracker skill when the agent is unavailable. Closeout-filed issues run the full tracker path — the same as any other tracked issue. Closeout builds no separate filing layer.

Gotchas

Highest-signal content. Append a bullet each time a run fails in a new way.

  • An obstacle stated from memory drifts. File only what the session can quote word for word — the actual error text, the exact command, the exact log line. A candidate that cannot be quoted goes under "Unverified candidates" for the user to judge, never into a filed issue as fact.
  • Skipping the confirmation gate files noise to a shared server that other people read. Every draft passes the AskUserQuestion gate before closeout hands it to the tracker.
  • A body that leans on chat context reads as a puzzle to anyone who opens the issue cold. Write each record so a reader with zero session context acts on it: name the failure, the count, and the quoted line.
  • A volatile path in an issue body breaks the moment the job scratch is cleaned. Keep temp dirs, worktrees, and $CLAUDE_JOB_DIR out of every record.

When this skill applies

Run this skill at the end of a working session, from inside that same session, when the session hit obstacles worth filing — hook blocks, gates that fired wrongly, tools that failed, forced workarounds, dead ends.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago First seen · 135 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A ac6a8965fd1c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

closeout is a skill published in the GitHub repository jl-cmd/claude-dev-env (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,230 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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