checkin

A midday review workflow that compares the morning plan with the work completed so far and shows what remains for the afternoon.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a daily page, mark focus areas as done or unfinished, discuss pivots, and check the remaining schedule.
Why use it?
It reveals unfinished priorities and unplanned changes before the rest of the day is lost.

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/mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit/checkin
Any agent
npx skills add mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit --skill checkin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 834 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00023 $0.00834
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash de6091846596, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checkin 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.

skills/checkin/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Midday Check-in

Trigger Phrases

  • "checkin"
  • "midday checkin"
  • "midday check-in"
  • "afternoon checkin"
  • "how's my day going"

Workflow

Step 1: Read Today's Daily Page

Fetch today's daily page from {{notes}}.

  • If no daily page exists, tell the user and offer to run morning-kickoff first.
  • Extract the Focus Areas section (the morning plan).
  • Read any Working Notes added during the morning.

Step 2: Assess Progress on Focus Areas

For each item in the morning Focus Areas, determine status:

  • Done: Completed since the morning.
  • In Progress: Actively being worked on.
  • Not Started: Hasn't been touched yet.

Present as a checklist so the user can quickly confirm or correct.

Step 3: Detect Pivots

Compare the morning plan to the Working Notes content and ask the user what they've actually been doing.

If work doesn't align with morning priorities, flag it neutrally:

"Looks like you spent the morning on [X] instead of [planned item]. Intentional pivot or got pulled in?"

Pivots aren't bad — they just need to be acknowledged so the afternoon can be re-planned.

Step 4: Show Remaining Schedule

Query {{calendar}} for events in the remainder of today.

  • List upcoming meetings with times.
  • Calculate remaining deep work hours: time left in the workday minus remaining meeting time.

If {{calendar}} is not configured, ask the user how many meetings they have left.

Step 5: Collect Reflection

Ask the user for a brief midday reflection. Prompt with one of these:

  • "How's your energy? Anything you want to adjust for the afternoon?"
  • "What's the one thing you want to make sure gets done before EOD?"
  • "Anything blocking you right now?"

Keep it lightweight — one or two sentences is fine.

Step 6: Update the Daily Page

Add a timestamped midday note to the Working Notes section of today's page in {{notes}}.

Format:

### Midday Check-in ([time])
**Progress:**
- [x] [Focus item 1] — done
- [ ] [Focus item 2] — in progress
- [ ] [Focus item 3] — not started

**Pivot:** [description, if any]

**Afternoon plan:** [adjusted priorities based on remaining time]

**Note:** [user's reflection]

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 2d ago First seen · 117 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A de6091846596

Subscribe to this mod's changes

checkin is a skill published in the GitHub repository mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 834 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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