ketchup

ketchup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards. It costs 42 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ketchup, MIT.

A chat summary workflow that catches a user up on changes, open decisions, and unfinished work since their last message.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /ketchup to summarize pull requests, branches, agents, checks, pending approvals, and other action items.
Why use it?
It gives the user the context needed to act without making them reread the conversation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the pstack plugin — 55 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it with /ketchup to summarize pull requests, branches, agents, checks, pending approvals, and other action items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/ketchup
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 minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards --skill ketchup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 2 agents.

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/ketchup/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/ketchup)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/ketchup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/ketchup/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for ketchup

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/ketchup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/ketchup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 427 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 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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00427
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00171
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash a7526068678c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ketchup 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to ketchup — 29 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.

plugins/pstack/skills/ketchup/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Ketchup

Catch the user up on everything in this chat since the last message they wrote before /ketchup. Notifications and subagent results are not their messages. Write in the plain voice of /bro, and skip its restating step. Assume the user remembers their last message and nothing after it. Call each PR, branch, or agent by a name they would know, not by a label you invented during the work.

Gather what changed

Keep this turn read-only. Collect your own work since that message, reports from subagents, and messages from anyone else in this chat. Check the current state of each PR, CI run, or agent this chat touched. Say which are still running and which you could not check.

An action item is a decision or step only the user can take, such as a product choice, an approval, an irreversible action, or access you lack. Include any still waiting on the user, even one raised before their last message. Work you can still do yourself is not an action item.

Write the reply

Open with one sentence that says how many action items there are, or that there are none. If nothing happened and nothing waits on the user, say so and stop.

Then say what happened, most important first. Give each result and what it means for the user. Skip steps that changed nothing. Name in one line any work left that you can do yourself.

Then give each action item a short executive summary. Cover the decision to make, why it matters now, the options and what each costs, your recommendation, and what happens if the user does not answer. If you do not know a part, say so instead of guessing. Link to the detail when there is one, and write the summary so the user can decide without opening it.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 24 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A a7526068678c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ketchup is a skill published in the GitHub repository minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards (47 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 427 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to ketchup, differing in 29 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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