source-command-latch-decay

A weekly maintenance task for latch’s project knowledge base. It reduces the weight of older referenced entries and promotes frequently used entries from staging to the main set.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run weekly knowledge-base cleanup and see which staged entries were promoted.
Why use it?
It keeps rarely used decisions from staying equally prominent and moves repeatedly useful entries into regular use.

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/open-latch/latch/source-command-latch-decay
Any agent
npx skills add open-latch/latch --skill source-command-latch-decay
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-latch/latch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 468 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 $0.00061 $0.00468
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash 947c418102a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-command-latch-decay 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.

.agents/skills/source-command-latch-decay/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

source-command-latch-decay

Use this skill when the user asks Codex to run the latch weekly maintenance decay pass for the current project.

Command Template

Resolve the active latch checkout, then run:

latch_home="${LATCH_HOME:-}"
if [ -z "$latch_home" ] && [ -n "${CLAUDE_KB_HOME:-}" ]; then
  latch_home="$CLAUDE_KB_HOME"
fi
if [ -z "$latch_home" ]; then
  search_dir="$PWD"
  while [ "$search_dir" != "/" ]; do
    if [ -f "$search_dir/AGENTS.md" ]; then
      latch_home="$(sed -n 's|.*Follow `\([^`]*\)/README\.md` per-user setup.*|\1|p' "$search_dir/AGENTS.md" | head -n 1)"
      [ -n "$latch_home" ] && break
    fi
    search_dir="$(dirname "$search_dir")"
  done
fi
if [ -z "$latch_home" ]; then
  candidate="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"
  if [ -f "$candidate/src/mcp_server.py" ] && [ -d "$candidate/commands" ]; then
    latch_home="$candidate"
  fi
fi
if [ -z "$latch_home" ] || [ ! -f "$latch_home/src/mcp_server.py" ]; then
  echo "Could not find latch checkout; set LATCH_HOME to your latch install." >&2
  exit 1
fi
python "$latch_home/src/maintenance.py" weekly "$(pwd)"

Report the JSON summary, especially decayed_rows, promoted_count, and promoted_ids. If the command fails, check maintenance.log in the selected latch checkout.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 947c418102a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-command-latch-decay is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-latch/latch (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 468 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.