firstmate is an agent distribution that lets one coding agent coordinate a crew of autonomous agents working in separate git worktrees. It is for running parallel fixes, investigations, plans, and audits while receiving completed pull requests, merges, or reports through one supervising agent. The catalogue entries provide skills, hooks, instructions, and settings for operating this workflow.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to kunchenguid/firstmate. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kunchenguid/firstmate/main/.agents/skills/away-quiet-supervision/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmateWrote 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/kunchenguid/firstmate/away-quiet-supervision)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kunchenguid/firstmate/away-quiet-supervision"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kunchenguid/firstmate/away-quiet-supervision/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/kunchenguid/firstmate/away-quiet-supervision"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kunchenguid/firstmate/away-quiet-supervision.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 | $0.00033 | $0.00631 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00252 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00126 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00063 |
Grade A, and why
away-quiet-supervision 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 25d 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.
What it actually says
Away and quiet supervision safety
The /afk and /quiet skills own their respective entry procedures and share the daemon machinery; architecture owns the captain-held recheck difference between their postures.
These safety facts apply to both:
- Every current daemon injection uses the
away-supervisorkind frombin/fm-operational-input.shafterFM_OPERATIONAL_PREFIX(U+2063 INVISIBLE SEPARATOR followed byFIRSTMATE_OP:), except that a Claude Code primary, which strips U+2063, receives that owner's record-backed doorbell and it counts as marked only whenbin/fm-operational-input.sh open <path>verifies its record; the/afkskill owns legacy bare-marker compatibility. state/.afk-contractis the away posture, written in the same turn as/afkbefore any other work, because/afkis itself the go: no read-back gates entry or waits for a go; entry announces hold-for-return only, and the away session acts on those words by its own judgment through the guarded scripts under standing authority, holding for the return on doubt. A record carrying quiet mode (bin/fm-afk-contract.sh mode) is quiet mode's instead: the captain is present, it holds nothing for a return, and requested actions proceed under ordinary attended authority.- While
state/.afkexists, the daemon owns supervision; do not arm a separate watcher. The daemon is never launched on Pi, where the ordinary supervision session continues under the record with main parked: the branch takes every safe actionable wake it can, and only a declined wake (including a broken branch or unsafe scan) or a watcher failure wakes main. Away mode on a non-Pi home that runs the supervision host (by default on Claude;docs/configuration.md"Supervision host") works the same way with the supervision host as the branch; a wake it hands back arrives through that harness's own wake path and is never the captain's return. - A marked message while away or quiet mode is active is internal escalation and does not exit that mode.
- A message beginning
/afkrefreshes away mode; a message beginning/quietrefreshes quiet mode. - Any other unmarked message means the captain returned in away mode (load
/afk, run the return owner, and do not process that message as ordinary work until its durable catch-up gate clears), or, in quiet mode, is simply answered as ordinary work with the flag and daemon left untouched until an explicit/quiet off. - Away and quiet mode never expand approval authority for merges, ask-user findings, destructive actions, irreversible actions, or security-sensitive choices.
- Bias ambiguous input toward exit because a present captain takes precedence.
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.
- 25d ago Changed · +1 lines 6b94bb3efb9b
- 26d ago Changed · +1 lines 22c921494a73
- 27d ago First seen · 23 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A aea20b52cfe9
away-quiet-supervision is a skill published in the GitHub repository kunchenguid/firstmate (8,295 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 631 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-28.
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