summarize

A guide for summarizing notes, issues, pull-request discussions, or documentation in brief, bullet-point, detailed, or business-focused formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Useful for creating quick overviews, action lists, pull-request summaries, and structured explanations of longer content.
Why use it?
It helps reduce long material to its key decisions, technical details, dates, owners, and action items.

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/pilotspace/pilot-space/summarize
Any agent
npx skills add pilotspace/pilot-space --skill summarize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pilotspace/pilot-space

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,906 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 $0.00019 $0.01906
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00953
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00191

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4d26aa9c6181, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

summarize 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.

backend/src/pilot_space/ai/templates/skills/summarize/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Summarize Skill

Generate summaries of notes, issues, PR discussions, or documentation in multiple formats.

Quick Start

Use this skill when:

  • User requests summary (/summarize)
  • Long note/issue needs TLDR
  • PR review summary needed

Example:

Content: [Long discussion about authentication redesign - 500 words]

Summary (brief):
"Redesign auth to use JWT tokens instead of sessions. Requires DB schema
changes and API updates. Estimated 2 weeks. Security audit needed."

Summary (bullet):
- Replace session cookies with JWT tokens
- Update DB schema for refresh tokens
- Modify login/logout API endpoints
- Conduct security review before deployment
- Estimated: 2 weeks (1 backend + 1 testing)

Workflow

  1. Analyze Content

    • Identify content type (note, issue, PR, docs)
    • Extract key points and decisions
    • Detect action items and owners
    • Find technical details and requirements
  2. Choose Summary Format

    • Bullet: Quick scan, action-oriented
    • Brief: Single paragraph TLDR
    • Detailed: Multi-paragraph with sections
    • Executive: Business-focused, non-technical
  3. Generate Summary

    • Preserve critical information (dates, numbers, names)
    • Maintain technical accuracy
    • Highlight decisions and action items
    • Include confidence tag if summarizing recommendations
  4. Validate Completeness

    • No information loss of critical facts
    • Preserves author intent
    • Maintains chronological order if relevant

Output Format

{
  "format": "bullet",
  "summary": "- Point 1\n- Point 2\n- Point 3",
  "confidence": "RECOMMENDED",
  "word_count": {
    "original": 500,
    "summary": 45,
    "compression_ratio": 0.09
  },
  "key_points": [
    {"type": "decision", "text": "Use JWT tokens"},
    {"type": "action", "text": "Security audit needed", "owner": "security-team"},
    {"type": "estimate", "text": "2 weeks development"}
  ],
  "missing_info": [
    "Timeline for security audit not specified",
    "Rollback strategy not discussed"
  ]
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 2d ago First seen · 197 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 4d26aa9c6181

Subscribe to this mod's changes

summarize is a skill published in the GitHub repository pilotspace/pilot-space (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,906 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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