session-reader

session-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niclejeune/pi-agents-config. It costs 70 tokens per session (822 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of session-reader, MIT.

A skill for reading Pi agent session history stored as JSONL files, where each line records part of a conversation or tool call.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find sessions, view a table of contents, read conversations, search for topics, or inspect one exchange in detail.
Why use it?
It turns difficult-to-scan session files into readable summaries and lets you locate specific exchanges or errors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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/niclejeune/pi-agents-config/session-reader
Any agent
npx skills add niclejeune/pi-agents-config --skill session-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niclejeune/pi-agents-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 822 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00070 $0.00822
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00411
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00082

Measured 5d ago against content hash 511277853019, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-reader 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/read_session.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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to session-reader — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.pi/agent/skills/session-reader/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.

Read Pi Sessions

Parse pi session JSONL files into readable output. Sessions live in ~/.pi/agent/sessions/<project>/ as .jsonl files.

Step 1: Find the Session

ls -t ~/.pi/agent/sessions/*<project>*/*.jsonl | head -10

Step 2: Start with Table of Contents

Always start with toc to get a numbered map of the session:

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/read_session.py <path> --mode toc

This prints a compact numbered list of every user exchange with timestamps and tools used.

Step 3: Read the Conversation

Default mode — shows only user messages and assistant text responses. Tool calls are hidden but hinted at with [used: tool1, tool2].

# Full conversation (default mode)
uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/read_session.py <path>

# Specific range
uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/read_session.py <path> --offset 5 --limit 3

# Search for specific topic
uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/read_session.py <path> --search "error"

Step 4: Drill Into a Turn

See everything about a specific exchange — thinking, tool calls, tool results, costs:

uv run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/read_session.py <path> --mode turn --turn 7

Mode Reference

Mode Shows Use for
conversation User + assistant text only (default) Reading what happened
toc Numbered exchange list Navigation, finding the right turn
turn Full detail for one exchange Drilling into specifics
issues Errors, failures, retries, user complaints Finding what broke
overview Metadata + exchange summaries Quick session assessment
full Everything including tool I/O Deep debugging
tools Tool calls and results only Understanding agent actions
costs Token usage and cost per turn Cost analysis
subagents Subagent task/status/cost/paths Reviewing delegated work

Flags

Flag Effect
--offset N Skip first N exchanges
--limit N Show at most N exchanges
--turn N Exchange number to drill into (with --mode turn)
--search TERM Filter exchanges containing TERM (case-insensitive)
--max-content N Max chars per block (default: 3000, 0=unlimited)

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 5d ago First seen · 92 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 511277853019

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session-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository niclejeune/pi-agents-config (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 822 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to session-reader, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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