add-item

add-item is a skill for Claude Code from rjroy/vibe-garden. It costs 68 tokens per session (647 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local issue tracker that turns a reported bug, task, or backlog item into an HTML file inside the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather the issue title and optional details such as description, priority, and size, then save an open issue file under `.lore/work/issues/`.
Why use it?
It keeps issue records in the project without needing GitHub, configuration, or authentication. It also avoids creating unclear placeholder issues when the report lacks enough detail.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the compass-rose plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to gather the issue title and optional details such as description, priority, and size, then save an open issue file under .lore/work/issues/.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rjroy/vibe-garden/add-item
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 rjroy/vibe-garden --skill add-item
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjroy/vibe-garden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compass-rose, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 647 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 $0.00068 $0.00647
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00065

Measured 12d ago against content hash 127b5c1c55e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-item 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 12d 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.

compass-rose/skills/add-item/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Item

Gather the details, write the issue file, confirm. No GitHub API, no config file, no authentication.

Step 1: Qualify the observation

If the user's input is too vague to write up clearly, say so and stop. Do not file a placeholder.

Step 2: Gather details

Ask for the following, in order. Skip any field the user doesn't answer.

Title (required): A short, clear label for the issue. Used as the filename.

Description (optional): What's happening, why it matters, fix direction if known.

Priority (optional): P0 / P1 / P2 / P3. No default. Skip if the user doesn't know.

Size (optional): S / M / L / XL. No default. Skip if the user doesn't know.

Do not prompt for status. Status is always open.

Do not prompt about XL escalation. That behavior is retired.

Step 3: Create the issue file

Derive the filename from the title: lowercase, spaces to hyphens, strip punctuation.

Path: .lore/work/issues/[kebab-case-title].html

Create the directory if it doesn't exist.

File format

Standard HTML. Meta tags in <head> carry the structured fields. Body carries the human-readable content.

Required meta tags:

  • date — today's date, YYYY-MM-DD
  • status — always open
  • tags — inferred from content (comma-separated)

Conditional meta tags (omit if not provided):

  • priority — P0 / P1 / P2 / P3
  • size — S / M / L / XL

Body must include:

  • A visible status badge (e.g. <span class="badge">open</span>)
  • A priority indicator if priority was set
  • The observation, why it matters, and fix direction if known

Inline CSS is fine. No external dependencies.

Example meta block:

<meta name="date" content="2026-05-20">
<meta name="status" content="open">
<meta name="tags" content="bug, auth">
<meta name="priority" content="P1">
<meta name="size" content="S">

Step 4: Confirm and stop

Tell the user the file was created and where it lives. Then stop — do not start working the issue.

  • /compass-rose:next-item — find the next issue to work
  • /compass-rose:backlog — review all open issues
  • /lore-development:specify — write a formal spec for larger items

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 12d ago First seen · 77 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 127b5c1c55e0

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add-item is a skill published in the GitHub repository rjroy/vibe-garden (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 647 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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