Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
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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 | $0.00033 | $0.00940 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00376 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00188 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00094 |
Grade A, and why
thoughts-management 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Thoughts Directory Management
Manage the thoughts/ directory system for organizing research, plans, and notes.
When to use this Skill
Use this Skill automatically in these situations:
- When gathering metadata for document frontmatter (git commit, branch, author)
- When initializing a new project that needs thoughts/ structure
Available operations
Initialize thoughts directory
Creates the complete thoughts/ directory structure in the current project.
When to use:
- First time setting up thoughts/ in a new project
- When thoughts/ directory doesn't exist
Command:
bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.agents}/skills/thoughts-management/scripts/thoughts-init
What it does:
- Creates directory structure:
{username}/,shared/ - Creates initial README.md
Generate metadata
Generates git and project metadata for document frontmatter.
When to use:
- Before creating research document frontmatter
- Before creating implementation plan frontmatter
- When you need current git commit, branch, repository info
- When you need timestamp information
Command:
bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.agents}/skills/thoughts-management/scripts/thoughts-metadata
Output format:
Current Date/Time (TZ): 2025-01-12 14:30:45 PST
ISO DateTime: 2025-01-12T14:30:45-0800
Date Short: 2025-01-12
Current Git Commit Hash: abc123def456
Current Branch Name: main
Repository Name: my-project
Git User: John Doe
Git Email: [email protected]
Timestamp For Filename: 2025-01-12_14-30-45
Use this metadata to populate:
- Research document frontmatter fields
- Implementation plan frontmatter fields
- Any document requiring git context
Workflow integration
Metadata collection workflow
- Need to create document with frontmatter
- Gather metadata:
bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.agents}/skills/thoughts-management/scripts/thoughts-metadata - Use output to populate YAML frontmatter fields
- Create the document
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.
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.
- 5d ago Changed 937346c04878
- 1mo ago Changed d43bed09a52a
- 1mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 61bb663d13a1
thoughts-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikeyes/stepwise-dev (24 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.
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