standup

A helper for writing asynchronous standup updates, which are short team progress reports shared without a live meeting. It gathers current and recently completed work, then asks for progress, next steps, and blockers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare daily or regular updates about ongoing work, completed tasks, next steps, and anything waiting on another person.
Why use it?
It removes the effort of remembering what changed and formatting it into a team update. If task or notes data is unavailable, it asks you for the needed context.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 945 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 $0.00015 $0.00945
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00473
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00094

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9eafc7ab637f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

standup 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/standup/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Async Standup

Trigger Phrases

  • "standup"
  • "post update"
  • "async update"
  • "progress update"
  • "team update"

Workflow

Step 1: Gather Work Context

Query {{tasks}} for the user's in-progress and recently completed items.

  • In Progress: Tasks with "In Progress" or equivalent status, assigned to the user.
  • Recently Completed: Tasks completed since the last standup (or in the last 2 days if no prior standup is found).
  • Include: task ID, title, status.

If {{tasks}} is not configured, check today's daily page in {{notes}} for context instead. If neither is available, ask the user what they're working on.

Step 2: Collect Updates Per Item

For each in-progress item, ask the user:

  1. Progress: What did you do on this? (one line)
  2. Next: What's the next step? (one line)
  3. Blocked?: Anything blocking progress? (yes/no, and on whom if yes)

For recently completed items, just note them as done.

Quick mode: If the user provides all context inline (e.g., "standup: finished auth migration, working on PR review, blocked on deploy access"), parse it directly and skip the interactive questions.

Step 3: Format the Update

Draft the standup message using this structure:

**Done:**
- [task title] ([task ID])
- [task title] ([task ID])

**In Progress:**
- [task title] ([task ID]) — [progress note]. Next: [next step].

**Blocked:**
- [task title] ([task ID]) — blocked on [who/what]

[optional: one-line note about priorities or availability]

Rules:

  • Keep each bullet to one line.
  • Always include task IDs when available — they make updates searchable.
  • If nothing is blocked, omit the Blocked section entirely.
  • If the user mentions availability changes (OOO, half-day, meetings), add a brief note at the end.

Step 4: Preview and Confirm

Show the formatted message to the user and ask for confirmation before posting.

  • Let them edit, add, or remove items.
  • Don't post until they say it's good.

Step 5: Post to Team Channel

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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 · 133 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 9eafc7ab637f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

standup is a skill published in the GitHub repository mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 945 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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