agent-brain: Skill for Claude Code

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today is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Railly/agent-brain. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An end-of-day journaling workflow that combines Git commits, existing journal entries, unfinished tasks, and optional weekly plans into a daily summary. A Git commit is a saved change in a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect today’s coding activity, add meetings or other manual notes, update the daily file, reflect on the day, and prepare tomorrow’s tasks.
Why use it?
It removes the need to reconstruct the day from scattered repositories and notes, while carrying unfinished work into the next day.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is Railly/agent-brain's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on agent-brain itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agent-brain configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Railly/agent-brain. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Railly/agent-brain/main/.agents/skills/today/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Railly/agent-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,009 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.
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 $0.00014 $0.01009
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00404
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00101

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4dcde3660934, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

today 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 2mo 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/today/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

End-of-day summary: auto-detect commits across repos, merge with manual entries, generate daily log, reflect.

WAVE 0: Gather Data (ALL PARALLEL, one message)

# Tool Call Purpose
1 Bash Scan repos under ~/Programming for today's commits via git log --oneline --since="today" per repo Collect commits
2 Read 02_Journal/daily/{TODAY}.md Check if log exists (preserve Ship Log entries)
3 Read 02_Journal/daily/{YESTERDAY}.md Extract uncompleted - [ ] tasks for carry-over
4 Read 02_Journal/weekly/week-{YEAR}-W{WEEK_NUM}.md Weekly goal + MITs

Compute dates mentally (you know today's date from system context).

WAVE 1: Show + Ask

  1. Display auto-detected data summary (repos, commits)
  2. Show carried-over tasks from yesterday
  3. Ask: "What else did you do today? (meetings, research, calls, ideas, decisions, learnings)"
    • If user says nothing/skip, proceed with auto-detected data only

WAVE 2: Generate Log

Create or UPDATE 02_Journal/daily/{TODAY}.md.

If file already exists

PRESERVE these sections:

  • ## Ship Log (timestamped entries from /log and /ship)
  • Any manual - [HH:MM] entries

UPDATE these sections with fresh data:

  • ## Accomplishments
  • ## Stats
  • ## Projects Touched

Template

---
type: daily
week: "[[week-{YEAR}-W{WEEK_NUM}]]"
rating:
---
# {TODAY} - {Weekday}

## Weekly Goal
{from weekly file, or "No weekly goal set -- run /week"}

## Today's Tasks
- [ ] {from carry-over or user input}

## Pending (from yesterday)
- [ ] {uncompleted tasks from yesterday's log}

## Accomplishments

### {repo} ({n} commits)
1. {commit message -- expand with context}

### Other
1. {user-provided activities}

## Projects Touched
1. **{repo}**: {one-line summary of what changed}

## Content Ideas
{Generate 2-4 SPECIFIC ideas with hooks:}
1. Tweet: "{actual hook text}"
2. Thread: "{topic}" -- {why it's interesting}

## Learnings
1. {specific technical or strategic insight}

## Tomorrow
- [ ] {planned tasks}

## Ship Log
{preserved from existing file}

## Stats
- **Total commits**: {n}
- **Repos touched**: {n} ({list})

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 2mo ago First seen · 150 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 4dcde3660934

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today is a skill published in the GitHub repository Railly/agent-brain (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,009 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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