A macOS skill for managing tasks and projects in Things 3 through its command-line tool.

Use it to list inbox, today, upcoming, projects, areas, or tags; search tasks; and add or update todos.

It lets an agent read and update Things without manually navigating the app, while supporting previews before changes are made.

things-mac — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by kaivyy/kabot

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 kaivyy/kabot --skill things-mac

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kaivyy/kabot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 991 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00068	$0.00991
Opus 5.5	$0.00027	$0.00396
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00198
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00099

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b5390fff09f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

things-mac 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to things-mac — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

kabot/skills/things-mac/SKILL.md · 89 lines

What it actually says

Things 3 CLI

Use things to read your local Things database (inbox/today/search/projects/areas/tags) and to add/update todos via the Things URL scheme.

Setup

Install (recommended, Apple Silicon): GOBIN=/opt/homebrew/bin go install github.com/ossianhempel/things3-cli/cmd/things@latest
If DB reads fail: grant Full Disk Access to the calling app (Terminal for manual runs; Kabot.app for gateway runs).
Optional: set THINGSDB (or pass --db) to point at your ThingsData-* folder.
Optional: set THINGS_AUTH_TOKEN to avoid passing --auth-token for update ops.

Read-only (DB)

things inbox --limit 50
things today
things upcoming
things search "query"
things projects / things areas / things tags

Write (URL scheme)

Prefer safe preview: things --dry-run add "Title"
Add: things add "Title" --notes "..." --when today --deadline 2026-01-02
Bring Things to front: things --foreground add "Title"

Examples: add a todo

Basic: things add "Buy milk"
With notes: things add "Buy milk" --notes "2% + bananas"
Into a project/area: things add "Book flights" --list "Travel"
Into a project heading: things add "Pack charger" --list "Travel" --heading "Before"
With tags: things add "Call dentist" --tags "health,phone"
Checklist: things add "Trip prep" --checklist-item "Passport" --checklist-item "Tickets"
From STDIN (multi-line => title + notes):
- cat <<'EOF' | things add -
- Title line
- Notes line 1
- Notes line 2
- EOF

Examples: modify a todo (needs auth token)

First: get the ID (UUID column): things search "milk" --limit 5
Auth: set THINGS_AUTH_TOKEN or pass --auth-token <TOKEN>
Title: things update --id <UUID> --auth-token <TOKEN> "New title"
Notes replace: things update --id <UUID> --auth-token <TOKEN> --notes "New notes"
Notes append/prepend: things update --id <UUID> --auth-token <TOKEN> --append-notes "..." / --prepend-notes "..."
Move lists: things update --id <UUID> --auth-token <TOKEN> --list "Travel" --heading "Before"
Tags replace/add: things update --id <UUID> --auth-token <TOKEN> --tags "a,b" / things update --id <UUID> --auth-token <TOKEN> --add-tags "a,b"
Complete/cancel (soft-delete-ish): things update --id <UUID> --auth-token <TOKEN> --completed / --canceled
Safe preview: things --dry-run update --id <UUID> --auth-token <TOKEN> --completed

Delete a todo?

Not supported by things3-cli right now (no â€œdelete/move-to-trashâ€ write command; things trash is read-only listing).
Options: use Things UI to delete/trash, or mark as --completed / --canceled via things update.

Notes

macOS-only.
--dry-run prints the URL and does not open Things.

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.

1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A b5390fff09f1

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things-mac is a skill published in the GitHub repository kaivyy/kabot (20 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 991 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to things-mac, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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Getting it into your agent

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

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What it actually says

Things 3 CLI

What this file has done since we first saw it

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