daily-archivist

daily-archivist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from suryast/free-ai-agent-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,590 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scheduled knowledge-audit workflow for checking an agent's memory files, correcting safe issues, finding missing information, and sending notes to other agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fact-check stored claims, find undocumented decisions or broken references, remove duplicates, archive stale information, and place findings in agent inbox files.
Why use it?
It helps keep shared project knowledge accurate, organized, and up to date.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to fact-check stored claims, find undocumented decisions or broken references, remove duplicates, archive stale information, and place findings in agent inbox files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/suryast/free-ai-agent-skills/daily-archivist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add suryast/free-ai-agent-skills --skill daily-archivist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/suryast/free-ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,590 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 $0.00066 $0.01590
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00795
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00159

Measured 12d ago against content hash 708fd2c13052, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

daily-archivist 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/scan-changes.sh, scripts/verify-facts.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

daily-archivist/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compatible with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, and any SKILL.md-compatible agent.

Daily Archivist

Audit knowledge quality. Fix what's safe. Flag what's not. Route findings to the right agent.

Inspired by the "daily-archivist" pattern: a scheduled agent that vets all knowledge files, fact-checks claims, fills gaps, cleans up quality — and leaves notes for other agents when it finds issues they should handle.

What It Does

  1. Fact-check — Verify claims in memory files against actual state (file counts, project status, config values)
  2. Gap-fill — Find undocumented decisions, orphan references, missing rationale
  3. Clean up — Fix formatting, remove duplicates, merge overlapping entries, archive stale content
  4. Route findings — Leave notes in memory/inbox/<agent>.md for the appropriate agent
  5. Bug hunt — Spot broken references, missing files, config drift, stale data

Setup

1. Create the inbox directory

mkdir -p memory/inbox
# Create inbox files for each agent in your team
for agent in main coder reviewer researcher; do
  cat > memory/inbox/${agent}.md << 'EOF'
# Agent Inbox
<!-- Archivist leaves notes here. Read at session start, delete after acting. -->
EOF
done

2. Add inbox reading to your agent startup

Add this to your AGENTS.md or equivalent configuration:

## Every Session
1. Read memory files and feedback
2. **Check inbox:** Read `memory/inbox/<your-agent>.md` — act on pending items, delete after handling

3. Configure the verification script

Copy scripts/verify-facts.sh and customize the checks for your project. See comments in the script for examples.

4. Schedule the cron

# Example for OpenClaw
openclaw cron add \
  --name daily-archivist \
  --cron "0 3 * * *" \
  --agent janitor \
  --model claude-haiku-4-5 \
  --timeout-seconds 300 \
  --announce \
  --message 'Daily knowledge audit. Run verify-facts.sh, scan changes, fix what is safe, route findings to agent inboxes.'

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 188 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 708fd2c13052

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daily-archivist is a skill published in the GitHub repository suryast/free-ai-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,590 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.