daemon-setup

daemon-setup is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,598 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive setup wizard for a background asciinema recording daemon on macOS. A daemon is a process that keeps running independently of your coding session, using stored GitHub credentials and optional Pushover notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create credentials, configure notifications, store secrets in macOS Keychain, install the daemon with launchd, and verify its setup.
Why use it?
It keeps recording-related background work running after a terminal closes and provides logs and notifications for failures. It also separates the daemon's credentials from shared GitHub authentication.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the asciinema-tools plugin — 24 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

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/terrylica/cc-skills/daemon-setup
Any agent
npx skills add terrylica/cc-skills --skill daemon-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install asciinema-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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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.

agentmods badge for daemon-setup

README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,598 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00031 $0.01598
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00799
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00160

Measured 6d ago against content hash c705616dc14b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

daemon-setup scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

for tool in asciinema zstd git curl jq; do
plugins/asciinema-tools/skills/daemon-setup/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/asciinema-tools:daemon-setup

Interactive wizard to set up the asciinema chunker daemon. This daemon runs independently of Claude Code, using dedicated credentials stored in macOS Keychain.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

Why a Daemon?

Problem with old approach Daemon solution
Uses gh auth token (shared) Uses dedicated PAT from Keychain
Dies when terminal closes launchd keeps it running
Silent push failures Logs + Pushover notifications
Tied to Claude Code session Completely decoupled

Setup Phases Overview

Phase Name Details
1 Preflight Check Below
2 Check Existing Below
3 GitHub PAT Setup PAT Setup Guide
4 Pushover Setup Pushover Setup Guide
5-6 Config + Install launchd Installation Guide
7 Verify + Troubleshoot Verification & Troubleshooting

Execution

Phase 1: Preflight Check

Check required tools:

/usr/bin/env bash << 'PREFLIGHT_EOF'
MISSING=()
for tool in asciinema zstd git curl jq; do
  command -v "$tool" &>/dev/null || MISSING+=("$tool")
done

# macOS-specific: security command for Keychain
if [[ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]]; then
  command -v security &>/dev/null || MISSING+=("security (macOS Keychain)")
fi

if [[ ${#MISSING[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
  echo "MISSING:${MISSING[*]}"
  exit 1
fi

echo "PREFLIGHT:OK"
PREFLIGHT_EOF

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 6d ago First seen · 180 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A c705616dc14b

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daemon-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,598 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.