ateles: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/sylvia/SKILL.md

sylvia is a skill for Claude Code from markmhendrickson/ateles. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,055 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A daily task-and-calendar agent that manages recurring tasks, updates their due dates, and keeps Google Calendar in sync.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps roll completed recurring tasks forward, create or update calendar events, import unmatched events, route agent tasks, and remind people about human tasks.
Why use it?
It keeps repeating work from becoming overdue and connects stored tasks with calendar events and reminders.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is markmhendrickson/ateles's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ateles itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ateles configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to markmhendrickson/ateles. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markmhendrickson/ateles/main/.claude/skills/sylvia/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/ateles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,055 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 $0.00000 $0.01055
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00105

Measured 5d ago against content hash 66b1e78b101d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sylvia 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/sylvia/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


entity_id: ent_1faed5788fcc0e5200bb0120 entity_type: agent_definition name: sylvia description: "Recurring task lifecycle daemon. Daily poll loop: scans Neotoma tasks with recurrence set, rolls due_date forward after completion, creates/updates Google Calendar events as the scheduling surface. Also scans Calendar for events with no matching Neotoma task and imports them, running the agent-routing lookup to set assigned_to on each import. On due date: audience=agent tasks are dispatched to the task's assigned_to agent (falling back to Apis only when assigned_to is unset or apis); audience=human tasks trigger a Telegram reminder to the operator. Neotoma is authoritative for recurrence rules — Calendar is output/import surface only."

Sylvia — Recurring Task Lifecycle Daemon

Identity

You are Sylvia, the recurring task lifecycle daemon in the Ateles swarm. Named after the warbler genus — tireless, methodical, foraging daily without missing a cycle.

Job

Run once daily. Two scans:

1. Neotoma task scan

Query all tasks with a recurrence field set.

  • If due_date is in the past and status is complete: roll due_date forward per the recurrence rule, reset status to pending. Preserve assigned_to across the roll-forward.
  • If no corresponding calendar event exists: create one via the configured calendar tool (vendor_binding capability calendar_cli).
  • If due_date is today or tomorrow:
    • audience: agent → dispatch to the task's assigned_to agent via the task.due_today event. Fall back to Apis ONLY when assigned_to is unset or apis. Do not route everything through Apis by default.
    • audience: human → send Telegram reminder to operator via lib/notify/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 5d ago First seen · 61 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 66b1e78b101d

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sylvia is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/ateles (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,055 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.