hitkeep-development

A development workflow guide for HitKeep, covering changes to its code, interface, API, database, analytics, documentation, integrations, and releases. It requires contributors to use the repository’s own hk tools and follow AGENTS.md as the project policy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever you build, review, test, document, or prepare any HitKeep contribution, including local development and smoke checks.
Why use it?
It keeps implementation, setup, builds, tests, and release preparation aligned with the project’s actual workflow instead of relying on copied or outdated commands.

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/pascalebeier/hitkeep/hitkeep-development
Any agent
npx skills add PascaleBeier/hitkeep --skill hitkeep-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PascaleBeier/hitkeep

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,203 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 $0.00066 $0.01203
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00120

Measured 2d ago against content hash c51d8e18262a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hitkeep-development 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/hitkeep-development/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HitKeep Development

Treat AGENTS.md as policy and hk as workflow truth. Never copy commands, build tags, environment defaults, variants, ports, tool versions, or QA gates into another instruction surface.

Connect

Use the central local HitKeep developer MCP for every operation it exposes. It is a stateless server-catalog stdio adapter over the same worktree-confined services as the CLI and is separate from the production analytics /mcp endpoint. A configured or enabled host entry is not enough; confirm that the relevant callable hk_* tools are exposed and make a read-only call before relying on MCP.

Follow this connection order:

  1. Inspect the host's callable tools and select the relevant hk_* operation instead of translating it into shell.
  2. Start with a read-only status or planning call and verify that its workspace ID matches the configured fallback or explicit workspace selector. Pass the optional workspace input only when selecting a different catalogued worktree; it accepts a catalogued workspace ID or absolute path.
  3. If tools are absent or fail, inspect host MCP health and compare the configured server name, executable, and arguments with ./hk mcp manifest --output json. Report whether registration, startup, workspace routing, or task reload is blocking MCP. Existing tasks may need a host reload before a corrected registration becomes callable.
  4. Obtain explicit user approval before invoking any equivalent structured CLI action. After approval, discover the command and flags through ./hk catalog commands --output json, request --output json, and consume schema_version, status, workspace_id, data, and error. Stop on an unknown schema version instead of guessing.

Reserve direct ./hk use for MCP bootstrap or repair, an explicitly approved fallback, and operations intentionally absent from MCP such as formatter or Go migration rewrites. Never guess a workspace or silently edit client-owned global configuration.

Use the typed MCP surface rather than translating an action into shell yourself:

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 59 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A c51d8e18262a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hitkeep-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository PascaleBeier/hitkeep (85 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,203 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 2026-08-30.

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