Polaris: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/project-tracking/SKILL.md

project-tracking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sponge-b0b/Polaris. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,817 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An internal helper that updates the public GitHub Project view after another workflow has already changed the authoritative task record. A projection is a displayed copy of information held elsewhere.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconcile GitHub issues and project fields after an authorized lifecycle transition or a separate recovery process has established the correct state.
Why use it?
It keeps the public project view aligned with the durable source of truth without deciding workflow state itself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

This is sponge-b0b/Polaris's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on Polaris 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 Polaris configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sponge-b0b/Polaris. 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/sponge-b0b/Polaris/main/.agents/skills/project-tracking/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sponge-b0b/Polaris

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,817 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 $0.00028 $0.01817
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00727
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00182

Measured 7d ago against content hash 612d677b3a97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-tracking 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 7d 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/project-tracking/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Tracking

$project-tracking is a deterministic, non-authoritative projection helper.

It does not own lifecycle state, semantic authority, delivery focus, scheduling, dependencies, hierarchy, completion, or artifact membership semantics.

Invocation boundary

Project projection is intentionally eventually consistent during active delivery. Invoke this helper only at:

  1. Mandatory Spec completion reconciliation — $spec-merge-cleanup reconstructs the complete completed-Spec lineage and supplies one desired projection batch.
  2. Explicit human-requested board reconciliation — the active workflow reconstructs the requested authoritative artifact universe and supplies one desired projection batch.

Ordinary lifecycle transitions do not synchronize the Project. Do not persist a pending Project-update queue/flag/label/comment ledger.

Repository/Project setup, schema changes, historical backfills, or other administrative conversion work are outside this runtime skill.

Input contract

The caller supplies one desired base projection per formal artifact:

  • GitHub issue URL;
  • Artifact Type;
  • Workflow State;
  • base Next Skill;
  • base Work Status;
  • Completed On only for Complete;
  • current Project Delivery State for every active formal artifact: in-focus | eligible | blocked | independent;
  • optional Area / Priority only when the caller intentionally owns those presentation changes.

The caller reconstructs the complete authoritative artifact universe. This skill never crawls Project rows to decide what ought to exist.

Authority rules

Never infer lifecycle/delivery truth from:

  • Project fields or membership;
  • issue open/closed state alone;
  • labels;
  • saved-view position;
  • hierarchy alone;
  • prior conversation.

Project state is read only to detect and repair projection drift.

Delivery context comes from $project-delivery-management for Wayfinder-managed artifacts or explicit durable Independent classification. Ambiguous governance is invalid rather than silently treated as Independent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago Changed · -326 lines · +28 tokens per session 612d677b3a97
  2. 8d ago Changed · +20 lines 405ff74b9674
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines be73dd9b24cf
  4. 1mo ago Changed · -49 lines · -33 tokens per session 2d637752aeea
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +20 lines 01de091a774a
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 568 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 2cda7e414460

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project-tracking is a skill published in the GitHub repository sponge-b0b/Polaris (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,817 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 2026-08-31.

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