listen

listen is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PatrickJaiin/claude-code-connect. It costs 48 tokens per session (686 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session mode that lets one Claude Code session act as a child controlled by another session. The parent can connect through shared files, send prompts, and read replies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to register a session, record its current work, and let another Claude Code session delegate tasks or review responses.
Why use it?
It lets you split work between connected coding sessions while keeping the child session’s summary and conversation available to the parent.

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/patrickjaiin/claude-code-connect/listen
Any agent
npx skills add PatrickJaiin/claude-code-connect --skill listen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PatrickJaiin/claude-code-connect

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 686 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 $0.00048 $0.00686
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00343
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6b07c73918e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

listen 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/register.sh, scripts/wait.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/listen/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Listen — become a child session

Turn this session into a listener that a parent Claude Code session can connect to and drive. All communication happens through files under ~/.claude/claude-connect/sessions/<name>/.

All scripts referenced below live in this skill's scripts/ directory.

1. Register

  1. Pick a session name: use $ARGUMENTS if the user provided one; otherwise derive a short kebab-case slug from the current directory name plus what the session is about (e.g. myapp-auth-refactor). Keep it unique — check ~/.claude/claude-connect/sessions/ and add a suffix if taken.
  2. Run: bash <skill-dir>/scripts/register.sh <name> — it prints the session directory $DIR.
  3. Write $DIR/summary.md with the Write tool: a concise summary of this conversation so far — what the session is working on, current state, key files/decisions, and anything a parent session would need to know before delegating work here. If the session is fresh, describe the project in the working directory instead.
  4. Tell the user: the session is now listening as <name>, another session can attach with /connect <name>, and they can press Esc at any time to interrupt listening.

2. Listen loop

Repeat forever:

  1. Run bash <skill-dir>/scripts/wait.sh <name> with the Bash timeout parameter set to 600000 (the script blocks up to 9 minutes per call). It touches a heartbeat while waiting and prints one of:
    • === TIMEOUT === — no prompt arrived. Immediately run it again. Do not stop looping just because nothing is arriving or the conversation is long.
    • === STOP === — the parent disconnected you. Tell the user and stop the loop.
    • === PROMPT NNN === followed by the prompt body — handle it (step 2).
  2. Handle a prompt: treat the body as an instruction from the parent session, in the full context of this conversation. Do the work — you may read/edit files, run commands, whatever the task needs.
  3. Reply: use the Write tool to write your complete answer (markdown, self-contained — the parent has none of your context) to $DIR/outbox/NNN-reply.md using the same NNN as the prompt. Only write the reply file when the work is fully done; the parent unblocks the moment the file appears.
  4. If the exchange changed what this session is about, update $DIR/summary.md.
  5. Go back to step 1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 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. 3d ago First seen · 37 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 6b07c73918e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

listen is a skill published in the GitHub repository PatrickJaiin/claude-code-connect (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 686 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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