summarize-ideas

summarize-ideas is a skill for Claude Code from paultyng/ideate. It costs 75 tokens per session (4,349 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for producing a concise status report across multiple ideas in a local Ideate workspace.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for project check-ins, recaps, and a consolidated list of next actions across unfinished ideas.
Why use it?
It gathers running work, paused work, queued tasks, and recent activity in one view, so you do not need to inspect each idea separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for project check-ins, recaps, and a consolidated list of next actions across unfinished ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paultyng/ideate/summarize-ideas
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.

Any agent
npx skills add paultyng/ideate --skill summarize-ideas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paultyng/ideate

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,349 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00075 $0.04349
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02174
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00870
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00435

Measured 7d ago against content hash afed88e7fa44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

summarize-ideas scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sf -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
internal/skills/canonical/summarize-ideas/SKILL.md · 358 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 358 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

summarize-ideas

Workflow for producing a terse, idea-centric readout of every in-flight idea in the workspace, then a consolidated ## Next block of high-impact actions for juggling multiple ideas at once.

The unit of work is the idea. Sessions are one facet ("what's running on this idea"); backlog state is the other primary signal ("what's queued / blocked / mid-flight"). The recap reads by idea.

Steps

  1. One batched call. ideate:list_ideas with include_output_lines: 40. That single call returns every non-archived idea's summary, backlog counts + in-progress titles, sessions.running and sessions.dormant lists, last_activity_at, AND the most-recent running session's last 40 lines of screen — every signal this skill needs.

    Do not loop over the result calling list_backlog_by_slug / get_session_output / get_idea_by_slug per idea. One batched call covers it.

  2. Filter and sort. Default: keep ideas with any signal — running session, dormant session, or non-zero backlog.open + in_progress. Drop ideas with neither (they're parked; the user hasn't asked for them). Sort by last_activity_at descending so the most-touched idea leads. If the user named a filter (s:paused, etc.), honor it.

  3. Pick 1–3 high-impact next actions across the whole readout. After the per-idea sections, surface a consolidated ## Next block. High impact, in priority order:

    • Awaiting input. Sessions in awaiting state (refined per step 4 below) need a human answer to keep moving. Surface these first.
    • CI / review blocks. PRs with failing CI or CHANGES_REQUESTED — pick up the agent's most recent revision loop.
    • In-progress backlog idle a while. An in_progress item on an idea whose last_activity_at is hours old means the agent left work half-done; suggest resuming.
    • Dormant sessions with open backlog. "Resume idea-X to take on its remaining 3 open tasks."

Read the full file on GitHub · 358 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 358 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A afed88e7fa44

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summarize-ideas is a skill published in the GitHub repository paultyng/ideate (9 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 4,349 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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