take-a-break

take-a-break is a skill for Claude Code from Kepei-Lei102/breakwatch. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,489 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A tool for reviewing work streaks and break data collected by breakwatch hooks, which are automatic actions run during agent use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking the current streak, viewing reports, recalibrating reminder thresholds, inspecting detected alert devices, testing an alert, and rebuilding data from transcripts.
Why use it?
It shows how long you have been working and whether break reminders are useful, so you can adjust their thresholds.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the breakwatch plugin — 1 skill, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Checking the current streak, viewing reports, recalibrating reminder thresholds, inspecting detected alert devices, testing an alert, and rebuilding data from transcripts.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Kepei-Lei102/breakwatch
Claude Code
/plugin install breakwatch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install breakwatch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 hooks.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,489 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00106 $0.01489
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00745
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00149

Measured 11d ago against content hash b3a5a3703968, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

take-a-break scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Streak tracking is automatic — two hooks in `~/.claude/settings.json` run
plugins/breakwatch/skills/take-a-break/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Take a break

Streak tracking is automatic — two hooks in ~/.claude/settings.json run ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py on every prompt and every turn end, in every project. This skill is the manual side: reading the data and tuning it.

Commands

python3 ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py status              # current streak vs threshold
python3 ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py report              # last 14 days + did nudges work
python3 ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py report 30           # any window
python3 ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py recalibrate         # propose new thresholds
python3 ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py recalibrate --apply # write them
python3 ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py devices             # what output is detected, and the volume it picks
python3 ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py alarm               # fire a test alert, hear what it sounds like
python3 ~/.claude/worklog/breakwatch.py backfill            # re-seed from transcripts (safe to re-run)

Warn before running alarm — it overrides mute by design. Check they are not about to teach or present.

Installed as a plugin instead? The script is at $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/hooks/breakwatch.py; the data stays in ~/.claude/worklog/ either way, so history survives a reinstall.

Before changing anything, read HARNESS.md

(~/.claude/worklog/HARNESS.md on a manual install; beside the plugin root otherwise.)

It carries the design invariants, and two of them govern every retune: thresholds tune how often the system speaks, never whether the user listens, and loosening is bounded while tightening is free. Ignoring compliance data when setting thresholds looks like throwing away the most relevant signal. It is the opposite: every retune is requested moments after a nudge caused friction, so reasoning from compliance walks the system to silence by a sequence of individually sensible steps. recalibrate enforces this — it reports the compliance rate, then refuses to move thresholds with it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 103 lines · 106 tokens per session scan B b3a5a3703968

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take-a-break is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kepei-Lei102/breakwatch (1 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,489 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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