brain-review

brain-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SanderMoon/local-brain. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A weekly review workflow for checking projects, tasks, progress, completed work, open work, blocked items, and inbox items. It follows the idea of a regular review used in the Getting Things Done productivity method.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a week or when you want an overview of your work. It gathers recent completions, open and blocked tasks, inbox items, and the state of active projects.
Why use it?
It helps keep work current and trustworthy by showing what was finished, what remains, and what needs attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/sandermoon/local-brain/brain-review
Any agent
npx skills add SanderMoon/local-brain --skill brain-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SanderMoon/local-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,053 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 5.1 $0.00053 $0.01053
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00105

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1f502f612f24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brain-review 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.

pkg/skillscatalog/skills/brain-review/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

brain-review: Weekly Review

Walk the user through a comprehensive review of their entire workspace. This is the "reflect" phase — the practice that keeps the system trustworthy. Inspired by GTD's weekly review: get clear, get current, get creative.

Trigger Phrases

  • "Weekly review", "Let's review", "Review my projects"
  • "How did this week go?", "What's the state of everything?"
  • "End of week check-in", "Friday review"
  • "What did I accomplish this week?"

Workflow

Step 1 — Gather Everything

Make these calls to build the full picture:

  1. get_brain_overview — all projects and their stats
  2. query_todos with status: done and completed_after: [7 days ago] — recent completions
  3. query_todos with status: open — all open tasks
  4. query_todos with status: blocked — blocked items
  5. get_dump_items — inbox state

Step 2 — Celebrate Progress

Start positive. Present what was accomplished this week:

"This week you completed [N] tasks across [X] projects."

List the completed tasks grouped by project. Acknowledge effort — this is what keeps people motivated.

Step 3 — Review Each Active Project

For each project with open tasks:

  1. Show project name, open task count, and any in-progress/blocked items
  2. Ask: "Is this still active? Anything changed?"
  3. Look for signals:
    • Stale tasks: open tasks with no recent activity — ask if they're still relevant
    • Blocked tasks: surface them prominently — "This has been blocked. Can we unblock it?"
    • Missing deadlines: overdue tasks — "This was due [date]. What's the status?"

Keep this conversational, not interrogative. If a project is on track, a quick "Looks good, moving on" is fine.

Step 4 — Identify Stale Work

Query for tasks that have been open a long time without progress:

  • Tasks created > 2 weeks ago with status still open (never moved to in-progress)
  • Flag these specifically:

"These tasks have been sitting for a while. Want to reprioritize, defer, or drop any of them?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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 · 115 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 1f502f612f24

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brain-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository SanderMoon/local-brain (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,053 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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