What is build-capture?

An automatic daily record of real projects and changes made in Claude Code, the command-line coding assistant.

Use it to create a local Markdown log for standups, changelogs, or a running project history. It watches a chosen folder and uses a daily scheduled task to update the file.

It keeps completed work from disappearing into chat history or requiring a separate manual log. It skips routine questions and records what was built, shipped, fixed, or refactored.

build-capture — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by nataliacorrea03

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 nataliacorrea03/claude-code-skills --skill build-capture

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nataliacorrea03/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 525 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 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 5.1	$0.00080	$0.00525
Opus 5.5	$0.00032	$0.00210
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00105
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00052

Measured 2mo ago against content hash fd49125cb968, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-capture 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (build_digest.py, daily-sweep.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.

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/build-capture/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

build-capture

The stuff you build in Claude Code never gets written down unless you stop and do it. You won't. This does it for you.

Once a day a cron reads that day's Claude Code sessions plus the files that changed in a folder you watch, figures out what you actually built or shipped, and appends a short entry for each to a markdown file. Hands-off. Routine chatter and pure Q&A are skipped.

What you get, per build

Name — short title of the thing you built
What it is — one plain sentence
Latest — what happened today (built, shipped, fixed, refactored)
Type (skill / script / app / fix) + date

Setup (2 minutes)

Requires the claude CLI on your PATH and Python 3.
Set WATCH_DIR to the folder you build in (default: the current repo / ~/.claude/skills), and LOG_FILE for the log (default ~/build-log.md).

Install the daily cron:

cp com.example.build-capture-daily.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
# edit the path inside to point at this folder, then:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.example.build-capture-daily.plist

(On Linux, use the crontab line in daily-sweep.sh's header.)

Run it by hand

./daily-sweep.sh          # log today's builds now
./daily-sweep.sh dry      # print what it would log, write nothing

How it works

build_digest.py (pure local, no LLM) collects the last day's session text, the files that changed under WATCH_DIR, and recent git commits, into one digest. A headless claude pass reads it per SWEEP_PROMPT.md and appends the builds to your log, deduping by name so re-runs don't pile up. Additive only, it never edits past entries.

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

2mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A fd49125cb968

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository nataliacorrea03/claude-code-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 525 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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build-capture

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

build-capture

What you get, per build

Setup (2 minutes)

Run it by hand

How it works

What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

build-capture compared with skills from other repositories