generate-standup

A skill that prepares a daily standup update from recent GitHub work and agent-session history, with an option to post it to a team discussion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate or publish a daily standup for the mitodl or Open edX teams, using the GitHub command-line tool.
Why use it?
It turns activity from pull requests, issues, reviews, and discussions into a work update without requiring you to collect it manually.

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/mitodl/agent-kit/generate-standup
Any agent
npx skills add mitodl/agent-kit --skill generate-standup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mitodl/agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,647 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00106 $0.07647
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.03823
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01529
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00765

Measured 2d ago against content hash c57c53c7ab0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

generate-standup scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/get-standup-context.sh, scripts/post-standup-comment.sh), 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

&& chmod 700 "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/generate-standup" \
skills/process/generate-standup/SKILL.md · 660 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 660 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Daily Standup

Produces a daily standup post from live GitHub activity and optionally posts it to the mitodl/hq Check-ins discussion.

Requires: gh (authenticated) and jq.


Step 1 — Fetch GitHub context

Run the bundled context script before asking any questions:

bash skills/process/generate-standup/scripts/get-standup-context.sh [-t YYYY-MM-DD] [-o org1,org2]
Flag Description Default
-t "Today" date (YYYY-MM-DD) today (UTC)
-o Comma-separated orgs to search mitodl,openedx

The script outputs a JSON object:

{
  "meta": {
    "username": "string",
    "display_name": "string",
    "today": "string",
    "yesterday": "string",
    "tomorrow": "string",
    "since": "string"
  },
  "checkin_targets": { "eod": {...}, "bod": {...}, "latest": {...} },
  "prs_authored":        [...],
  "prs_reviewed":        [...],
  "issues":              [...],
  "discussions_opened":  [...],
  "discussion_comments": [...]
}
  • meta.display_name is the GitHub profile name when available; fall back to meta.username if it is blank.
  • meta.yesterday is the previous weekday (Friday if today is Monday).
  • meta.tomorrow is the next weekday (Monday if today is Friday).
  • meta.since is midnight UTC on meta.yesterday — the fetch window start.
  • checkin_targets holds the candidate post targets in mitodl/hq, each with id (GraphQL node ID), number, title, url, createdAt, date (the calendar date the title names) and comment_count. Any of the three may be null. See Choosing the post target.
  • discussions_opened — discussions the user opened in the window, any category. Opening one is announcement-worthy; see Step 3.
  • discussion_comments — comments and replies the user left in the window, with a url deep-linked to the comment and a 300-char excerpt. Check-ins threads are excluded (those are standup posts — reporting them is circular).
  • Do not infer or fabricate activity beyond what the script returns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 660 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. 2d ago First seen · 660 lines · 106 tokens per session scan B c57c53c7ab0a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generate-standup is a skill published in the GitHub repository mitodl/agent-kit (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 7,647 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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