holiday-recap

holiday-recap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoft/cat-agent-skills. It costs 156 tokens per session (11,943 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A return-from-leave briefing that gathers important email, meeting, and Teams activity from the period you were away. It groups each item once and links back to the original Microsoft 365 item.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after annual leave or extended out-of-office periods to review missed email, meetings, Teams channels, group chats, and meeting conversations.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of reconstructing what happened during a multi-day absence and separates messages, meeting requests, meeting summaries, and chats. Suggested replies require approval before anything is sent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it after annual leave or extended out-of-office periods to review missed email, meetings, Teams channels, group chats, and meeting conversations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/holiday-recap
About the project

microsoft/cat-agent-skills is a static website that catalogs reusable instruction sets and related packages for AI agents. People use it to search, filter, rate, and download skills for Cowork, Copilot Studio, and Scout, along with Copilot plugins and Scout automations. The catalogue entries are the skills, instructions, plugins, and settings displayed by the site.

microsoft/cat-agent-skills · 66 stars · on GitHub

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 microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill holiday-recap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,943 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 294
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00156 $0.11943
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.05972
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.02389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.01194

Measured 10d ago against content hash be11a515934f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

holiday-recap 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.

submissions/holiday-recap/SKILL.md · 834 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 834 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Holiday Recap

Catch the user up after annual leave or any extended out-of-office period. Reviews Outlook email, meeting invitations, meetings held while away, Teams channels, group chats, 1:1 chats and meeting chats, then reports Mails, Meeting Request, Important Meetings Recap and Chats — each item appearing exactly once, deep-linked, styled to match the app it came from (Outlook items read like Outlook, Teams items read like Teams) — before executing the meeting responses, sends and posts the user approves.

When NOT to Use

  • Daily or end-of-day catch-up ("what did I miss today", "morning briefing") → daily-briefing.
  • A single meeting's summary, transcript or action itemsmeeting-intel.
  • Calendar hygiene, declining low-value meetings, defending focus timecalendar-management.
  • Booking, moving or cancelling a meetingschedule-meeting.
  • Ordinary inbox triage or a one-off email search → use the Outlook tools directly.
  • Absences of roughly a day or less, where a daily briefing is the better fit.

This skill orchestrates those built-in capabilities across a multi-day absence window; it does not replace them. Where a built-in skill does the job better for one item (e.g. a deep meeting summary), use it and fold the result into the recap.

Workflow

Step 1 — Ask the scoping questions, starting with which areas to cover

Before any mailbox, calendar, chat or channel call runs, ask the user through this sequence, starting with Q0. Combine into as few core-AskUserQuestion cards as the UI allows (e.g. Q0 alone on its own card since every later question depends on it; Q1 alone on the next card since it gates everything else; Q2+Q3 together where relevant; Q4 alone, since its answer determines what the next card can even show; Q5 next; Q6 last) — but the fixed order below never changes, and a question is only skipped when its own rule below says to skip it.

Q0 — Areas to include "Which areas do you want covered in this recap?" Multi-select, presented as checkboxes:

Read the full file on GitHub · 834 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. 10d ago First seen · 834 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A be11a515934f

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holiday-recap is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 11,943 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.