turnbreak

turnbreak is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Milkeles/turnbreak. It costs 59 tokens per session (677 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of turnbreak, MIT.

A coding-agent add-on that shows reading material while the agent is working and notifies you when the work ends. It can manage hooks, reading interests, content sources, and settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or update start-and-stop hooks, set reading interests, choose curated or local-folder content, and select the finder used for recommendations.
Why use it?
It gives you something useful to read during long agent tasks without requiring you to check the agent repeatedly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/milkeles/turnbreak/adapters
Any agent
npx skills add Milkeles/turnbreak --skill adapters
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Milkeles/turnbreak

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 turnbreak

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/milkeles/turnbreak/adapters.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/milkeles/turnbreak/adapters)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/milkeles/turnbreak/adapters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/milkeles/turnbreak/adapters.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 677 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00059 $0.00677
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00068

Measured 4d ago against content hash cccffb8b8558, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

turnbreak 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (copilot_extension/extension.mjs, turnbreak-hook.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to turnbreak — 37 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

src/turnbreak/adapters/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

turnbreak skill

turnbreak shows you something worth reading while your coding agent works, then notifies you when it's done. It hooks into your agent's turn start/turn end events to time this.

turnbreak isn't published to a package index. It's already installed on this machine at a fixed location, invoked below as {{TURNBREAK_COMMAND}}. Always use that exact invocation. Don't assume a bare turnbreak binary is on PATH, and don't guess an install source for it.

First, read ARGUMENTS

Whatever the user typed after /turnbreak appears below.

$ARGUMENTS

If that's empty, do NOT run install or any other command. Instead, show this menu verbatim and stop. Do not take any action until the user picks one:

turnbreak can:

  1. install: set up (or update) the turn-start/turn-stop hook for an agent
  2. onboard: first-run setup for reading interests and finder token consent
  3. interests: open the interests file to edit what you want to read
  4. mode: switch between a curated list and a local folder of files
  5. finder: switch which finder builds the curated list

Which one?

If ARGUMENTS names one of the commands below (e.g. interests, mode folder ~/notes, onboard, finder rss, install claude), skip the menu entirely and just run that exact {{TURNBREAK_COMMAND}} ... invocation, then report the result.

Commands

  • {{TURNBREAK_COMMAND}} install <claude|codex|gemini|copilot>: install or update the turn-start/turn-stop hook for that agent. Merges into existing config, never overwrites.
  • {{TURNBREAK_COMMAND}} onboard: first-run setup. Collects reading interests, and if the agent finder is selected, confirms it's allowed to spend tokens.
  • {{TURNBREAK_COMMAND}} interests: open the interests file in $EDITOR (or print its path if $EDITOR isn't set).
  • {{TURNBREAK_COMMAND}} mode <curated|folder> [path]: switch between a curated reading list and a local folder of files.
  • {{TURNBREAK_COMMAND}} finder <agent|rss|search>: switch which finder builds the curated list.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 4d ago First seen · 64 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A cccffb8b8558

Subscribe to this mod's changes

turnbreak is a skill published in the GitHub repository Milkeles/turnbreak (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 677 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to turnbreak, differing in 37 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

sync-awareness

Suggest syncing MCP server configurations or instruction files to other AI coding agents when the user is editing MCP settings (.claude.json, .mcp.json) or modifying CLAUDE.md files. Available commands: /sync, /sync-list, /sync-diff, /sync-instructions.

Leoyang183/sync-agents-settings · 61 tokens

qmd

Search the vault using QMD semantic search. Use PROACTIVELY before reading files. Preference order: (1) MCP tools — mcpqmdquery, mcpqmdget, mcpqmdmultiget, mcpqmdstatus — if they appear in your tool menu, use them first; (2) CLI qmd --index ... as fallback; (3) Grep/Glob only when QMD is not installed. Trigger…

breferrari/obsidian-mind · 142 tokens

obsidian-cli

Interact with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more. Also supports plugin and theme development with commands to reload plugins, run JavaScript, capture errors, take screenshots, and inspect the DOM. Use when the user asks to interact with their…

breferrari/obsidian-mind · 102 tokens

unity-vrc-skills-renovator

VRChat skill renovator for knowledge fill, refresh, and quality improvement. Use this skill when updating VRChat skills to new SDK versions, filling missing knowledge, fixing outdated information, or improving skill quality. Targets unity-vrc-udon-sharp and unity-vrc-world-sdk-3 skills. Triggers on: update skills, SDK…

niaka3dayo/agent-skills-vrc-udon · 101 tokens

neo4j-snowflake-graph-analytics-skill

Run Neo4j Graph Analytics algorithms (PageRank, Louvain, WCC, Dijkstra, KNN, Node2Vec, FastRP, GraphSAGE) directly inside Snowflake without moving data. Use when running graph algorithms against Snowflake tables via the Neo4j Snowflake Native App ("GDS Snowflake", "graph algorithms in Snowflake", "Neo4j Graph…

neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills · 222 tokens

neo4j-document-import-skill

Ingests unstructured and semi-structured documents into Neo4j as a knowledge graph. Use when chunking PDFs, HTML, plain text, or Markdown; extracting entities and relationships from text with an LLM (SimpleKGPipeline, neo4j-graphrag); loading JSON via apoc.load.json; building Document→Chunk→Entity graph structures; or…

neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills · 187 tokens