A first-time setup procedure for Pulse, a tool that captures Claude Code sessions and creates daily notes. It guides installation, account connection, note storage, and optional nightly routines.

Use it to install Pulse, connect its Convex backend, enable session capture, configure daily notes, produce the first note, and optionally set up a nightly routine.

It removes the need to work out the setup commands and configuration by hand.

setup — Skill by muhammademanaftab

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/muhammademanaftab/pulse/setup

Any agent

npx skills add muhammademanaftab/pulse --skill setup

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammademanaftab/pulse

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,053 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00058	$0.01053
Opus 5	$0.00029	$0.00526
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.00211
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00105

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5ce11dd70752, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (capture.py, install.py, test_capture.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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- Never hand-edit `~/.claude/settings.json` or `~/.pulse/config.yaml`; `install.py`

skills/setup/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pulse setup (agent-driven)

Take the user from a fresh clone to: capture live, daily notes configured, a first note produced, and (optionally) a nightly routine. You run the mechanical work via skills/setup/install.py; never hand-edit the user's settings.json or config.yaml. Run everything from the repo root. Do the phases in order.

Phase 1: Capture

Say what will happen in one sentence, then run:
```
python3 skills/setup/install.py
```
If it prints the Convex login commands (no deployment yet), have the user run them in their terminal (the ! prefix runs in this session), then re-run the script:
```
! cd convex-backend && npx convex login
! cd convex-backend && npx convex dev --once --dev-deployment cloud
```
The second asks them to pick a team and name the project (suggest pulse).
When it finishes (creds written, hook installed, probe verified), tell them: capture is live, every Claude Code turn now records to their Convex, silent, logs at ~/.pulse/capture.log.

Phase 2: Daily notes

Ask where notes should live: offer to create ~/pulse-notes, or take a path they give. Then run (add --create when making a new repo):
```
python3 skills/setup/install.py notes --repo <path> --create
```
This git-inits the repo, auto-detects their timezone, and writes ~/.pulse/config.yaml. Confirm the detected timezone with them; pass --timezone <IANA> if wrong.
Produce a first note as a preview: follow skills/digest/SKILL.md for the most recent day with data, but stop after the gates. Do NOT push or mark rows processed (the routine owns that). Show the user the note path.

If digest.py fetch returns event_count 0 (brand-new user, nothing captured yet), tell them plainly: notes appear once they've used Claude Code, and they can run the digest later. Do not treat this as an error.

Phase 3: Nightly routine (optional)

Ask if they want notes built automatically every night (works with their machine off). If yes, walk them through creating the claude.ai routine, telling them the exact value for each field. Use routines/README.md as the source; the fields:

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

3d ago First seen · 92 lines · 58 tokens per session scan B 5ce11dd70752

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammademanaftab/pulse (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,053 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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