curate-collection

curate-collection is a skill for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 105 tokens per session (2,917 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A library collection management process for choosing, assessing, removing, and sourcing materials. It covers acquisitions, weeding, reader advice, and interlibrary loans, which borrow materials from other libraries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create collection policies, plan purchases, analyze usage, weed collections, advise readers, and coordinate borrowing requests.
Why use it?
It helps libraries address gaps, remove outdated or duplicate materials, manage limited shelf space, and respond to reader needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 122 skills, 76 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create collection policies, plan purchases, analyze usage, weed collections, advise readers, and coordinate borrowing requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pjt222/agent-almanac/curate-collection
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 pjt222/agent-almanac --skill curate-collection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 76 agents.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,917 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00105 $0.02917
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01458
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00583
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00292

Measured 6d ago against content hash e4119722e50c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

curate-collection 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 6d 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.

i18n/caveman-lite/skills/curate-collection/SKILL.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Curate Collection

Build, assess, and maintain a library collection through strategic acquisitions, systematic weeding, usage analysis, and responsive reader advisory.

When to Use

  • You are building a new collection with a defined scope and budget
  • An existing collection needs assessment for gaps, redundancies, or outdated materials
  • Shelves are overcrowded and systematic weeding is needed
  • Users request materials the collection does not hold
  • You want to establish a formal collection development policy

Inputs

  • Required: Collection scope (subject areas, audience, formats)
  • Required: Budget (annual acquisitions budget or one-time allocation)
  • Optional: Usage data (circulation statistics, hold requests, ILL requests)
  • Optional: Community or institutional profile (demographics, curriculum, research areas)
  • Optional: Existing collection development policy

Procedure

Step 1: Define the Collection Development Policy

Establish the guiding document for all acquisition and weeding decisions.

Collection Development Policy Template:

1. MISSION STATEMENT
   What is the collection for? Who does it serve?
   Example: "Support the undergraduate curriculum in the
   humanities and social sciences with current and
   foundational works."

2. SCOPE
   +-------------------+------------------------------------------+
   | Element           | Definition                               |
   +-------------------+------------------------------------------+
   | Subject areas     | List of disciplines collected             |
   | Depth levels      | Basic, instructional, research,           |
   |                   | comprehensive, exhaustive                |
   | Formats           | Print, ebook, audiobook, media, serial    |
   | Languages         | Primary and secondary languages           |
   | Chronological     | Current only, or retrospective            |
   | Geographic        | Any focus area or exclusion               |
   +-------------------+------------------------------------------+

3. SELECTION CRITERIA (in priority order)
   a. Relevance to mission and audience needs
   b. Authority and reputation of author/publisher
   c. Currency (publication date vs. field currency)
   d. Quality of content (reviews, awards, citations)
   e. Format suitability (print vs. digital)
   f. Cost relative to budget and expected use
   g. Representation: diversity of perspectives and voices

4. WEEDING GUIDELINES
   - Frequency: annual review cycle
   - Method: CREW/MUSTIE (see Step 4)
   - Disposition: sale, donation, recycling

5. REVIEW SCHEDULE
   - Policy reviewed and updated every 3 years

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 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. 6d ago First seen · 305 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A e4119722e50c

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curate-collection is a skill published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 2,917 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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