kestral-sync

kestral-sync is a skill for Claude Code from Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins. It costs 44 tokens per session (628 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill that synchronises coding-session progress with Kestral, an external task-tracking service, through an MCP operation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for starting or updating linked tasks, picking up work, creating tasks, and syncing after a push or pull request. Optional workflows distinguish coding updates from general updates.
Why use it?
It keeps task status and session progress aligned after events such as pushing code, creating a pull request, or finishing a review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kestral plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for starting or updating linked tasks, picking up work, creating tasks, and syncing after a push or pull request. Optional workflows distinguish coding updates from general updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-sync
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 Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins --skill kestral-sync
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kestral, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for kestral-sync

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-sync"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-sync.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 628 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 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 $0.00628
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00314
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5b46ba2c9eb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kestral-sync 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 7d 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.

plugins/kestral/skills/kestral-sync/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kestral Sync

Keep the linked Kestral task in sync with this coding session. Full playbooks live on the server and are returned by the MCP operation — do not invent sync procedures from memory.

How to sync

Call:

execute_operation("sync_session_workflow", { intent })
Intent When
session_start Beginning of a linked-repo session (hooks do this)
pickup Starting work on a task
update Progress, review, status, comments
create Explicitly creating a task for current work
update_or_create Prefer sync_after_push after push/PR instead
repo_opt_in Resolving home auto-sync prefs for this folder

Optional workType: omit or "coding" (default) for branch/PR/milestone playbooks; "general" for non-coding comment/status/create (no branch/PR).

Follow the returned instructions and call listed ops by operationId. Do not call search_operations first for sync/pickup/push.

After push / PR

Prefer one call:

execute_operation("sync_after_push", { branchName, summary?, prUrl? })

Do not run Full Sync afterward.

Opt out of GitHub auto-link / auto-create

For chore or one-off work with no Kestral task, call execute_operation("set_pr_tracking", { tracked: false, branchName, prUrl? }) as soon as the branch is known (before the PR exists). Fall back to <!-- kestral:skip-auto-link --> in the PR body only if MCP is unavailable. To undo an auto-created task: pass removeAutoCreatedTask: true with prUrl.

Never write MCP into product code

execute_operation / MCP tool calls are agent-session actions only. Never write them into application source.

When to sync

  • After git push, gt submit, or gh pr create
  • Structured plan written — offer tracking tasks; ask one parent for the plan vs a task per phase/deliverable (intent: create if approved)
  • Phase or feature complete
  • PR created or linked
  • Review, bugfix, or prototype conclusion
  • User asks to sync

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 7d ago First seen · 73 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 5b46ba2c9eb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kestral-sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 628 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 2026-08-31.

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