file-summarizer

file-summarizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jshiv/cronicle. It costs 44 tokens per session (368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that reads one or more text files and writes one short paragraph describing their shared themes and important differences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to survey a folder of text files, identify the main through-line, and point to specific files that contain important details.
Why use it?
It provides a quick overview of a directory without requiring someone to read or summarize every file separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/jshiv/cronicle/file-summarizer
Any agent
npx skills add jshiv/cronicle --skill file-summarizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jshiv/cronicle

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 368 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 5.1 $0.00044 $0.00368
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00184
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 6d ago against content hash ed362b9f65d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

file-summarizer 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 6d 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.

deploy/mcp-demo/skills/file-summarizer/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

file-summarizer

When to use

Use this skill when you've been given a directory (typically via the fs__list_directory and fs__read_text_file tools from the MCP filesystem server) and the operator wants one summary covering all of it, not file-by-file digests.

How to summarize

  • One paragraph, 80–120 words. Resist the urge to bullet — this is a digest, not a manifest.
  • Lead with the through-line. What do these files have in common? Where do they diverge? Open the paragraph with that frame.
  • Name files inline when a specific file carries a key point. Use the basename only (e.g. release-notes.md), not the full path.
  • No meta commentary. Don't write "this directory contains…". Write the digest as if it were going into a status report.

Output format

Write to ${scratch}/SUMMARY.md with exactly this shape:

# File summary — <YYYY-MM-DD>

<one paragraph, 80–120 words>

---
_files_: <comma-separated basenames>

Replace <YYYY-MM-DD> with today's date and <comma-separated basenames> with the file names you actually read.

When NOT to use

If the operator asks for "summaries" plural (one per file) or "what's in each file," do that instead — this skill is the single-paragraph variant.

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. 6d ago First seen · 50 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A ed362b9f65d0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

file-summarizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository jshiv/cronicle (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 368 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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