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.
npx skills add Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins --skill kestral-pickupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kestral-Team/kestral-pluginsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-pickup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-pickup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-pickup/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-pickup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-pickup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00120 | $0.01705 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00060 | $0.00852 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00341 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00170 |
Grade A, and why
kestral-pickup 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Kestral Pickup
The receiving end of multiphase-plan and kestral-handoff. A fresh chat has no memory of prior sessions — this skill
rebuilds working context from Kestral (the durable source of truth), so a coding agent in any git worktree can grab
an unblocked lane and start. Designed for parallel worktrees (Conductor, git worktree add, or equivalent): each
worktree runs this and claims a different lane.
Prerequisites
The Kestral MCP server must be in this session (/mcp). Authentication is handled by the MCP connection — proceed
directly. If any call returns auth failure (401, unauthorized, or Not authenticated), ask the user to reconnect or
authenticate the Kestral MCP server through their app's UI (Cowork: Customize → Connectors; Codex: authenticate
then start a new thread using /new — CLI: codex mcp login Kestral; app: Plugins → Kestral → MCP servers gear; Claude Code:
/mcp → reconnect; Cursor: Settings → Tools & MCPs → Connect).
Human-readable references
Keep Kestral IDs internal unless the user asks for them. In user-facing output:
- Tasks: show
slug - titlewhen a slug is available, linked withurlwhen the host can render links. - Projects, documents, and other Kestral entities: show the readable name first, linked with
urlwhen possible. - People: show display names; if unresolved, write
Unknown member (id: <rawId>).
Entrypoint
Expected invocations include:
/kestral:pickup$kestral-pickup- "Pick up the Kestral plan in this worktree."
- "Resume the multi-phase effort and claim the next unblocked lane."
Canonical plan format
Parse phases, lanes, and [status: …] markers using the canonical format.
- MCP workflow: use
context.plan_formatfrom this response — do not try to read a local file. - Plugin skill on disk: if
context.plan_formatis absent, read../multiphase-plan/references/plan-format.md.
If context.statuses is present, map generic status terms to those workspace keys. Otherwise call list_statuses when
claiming (or delegate to kestral-sync, which owns status discovery).
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 129 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 5849d57bdbfe
kestral-pickup is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 1,705 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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