where

where is a skill for Claude Code from markmhendrickson/neotoma. It costs 147 tokens per session (4,951 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A status skill that answers where work stands now using the current conversation and one limited read of the session's task records. It reports active work, recently completed work, items waiting for the operator, and why.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for quick orientation during ongoing work, especially when tasks may have fallen outside the visible conversation.
Why use it?
It provides a short current-state update without rebuilding the entire conversation or writing changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It is for quick orientation during ongoing work, especially when tasks may have fallen outside the visible conversation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markmhendrickson/neotoma/where
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 markmhendrickson/neotoma --skill where
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/neotoma

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,951 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 $0.00147 $0.04951
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.02475
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00990
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00495

Measured yesterday against content hash e6d0dbdfb241, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

where 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/where/SKILL.md · 316 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

where

Purpose

Answer "where are we right now" in the time it takes to read a short message.

/where reads the present tense, including work still in flight. It answers from what is already in the context window, plus one scoped read of this session's task entities — no transcript reconstruction, no verification pass, no writes. That is the entire point: the operator asks this question several times an hour, and a reconstruction that reads twenty thousand transcript lines cannot be the answer to a question asked that often. One entity query can.

Brevity is the feature, not a side effect. A /where that runs as long as a /status has failed even if every line in it is true.

The trio, by cost — not by lifecycle position

All three of these are distinct, and picking the wrong one is the failure this section exists to prevent. They are ordered by cost and confidence, not by where they sit in a session's life:

Skill Coverage Verification Writes When
/where in-context, plus one scoped task read none — everything unverified; stored task state is read, not checked none orientation, any time, often
/status whole lineage, reconstructed from transcripts every factual claim checked against its system of record one session_digest when the read-out must be trustworthy
/end whole session audits storage and modeling files tasks, persists entities, refreshes hubs the actual close-out

/status does NOT close a session. It is read-only for domain data and is designed to run at any point mid-session; its single permitted write is bookkeeping about itself. /end is the closing skill — it files, persists, and audits. Do not describe /status as a close-out, in this skill or in a report; a session that believes it is will reach for the wrong tool at the wrong moment.

Both /where and /status orient the operator, at very different cost. Neither closes anything.

Read the full file on GitHub · 316 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. yesterday First seen · 316 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A e6d0dbdfb241

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where is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/neotoma (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 4,951 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-07.

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