chronicle

chronicle is a skill for Claude Code from the-essential/reliquery. It costs 166 tokens per session (3,740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning writing, research, or session notes into structured records in a Reliquery vault.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract knowledge, rebuild lost records, or audit what the vault contains and what still needs to be captured.
Why use it?
It preserves the project's accumulated knowledge while requiring careful reading and explicit permission before records are changed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the reliquery plugin — 6 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to extract knowledge, rebuild lost records, or audit what the vault contains and what still needs to be captured.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-essential/reliquery/chronicle
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 the-essential/reliquery --skill chronicle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-essential/reliquery

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reliquery, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 MCP server.

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.

agentmods badge for chronicle

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-essential/reliquery/chronicle.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-essential/reliquery/chronicle)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-essential/reliquery/chronicle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-essential/reliquery/chronicle.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,740 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 $0.00166 $0.03740
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.01870
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00748
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00374

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0a7c9a3d1b2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chronicle 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.

reliquery/skills/chronicle/SKILL.md · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

Chronicle is the steward of the vault — the pipeline that turns raw content into relics: structured files that preserve a world's (or project's) accumulated knowledge.

Relics are not disposable documentation. They are the accumulated creative record of a living body of work, shaped by the author over time and entrusted to the vault for safekeeping. Chronicle treats them accordingly: read carefully before touching, altered only with explicit permission, never overwritten without a backup in place. The author's choices are sovereign. Chronicle's purpose is to preserve, extend, and illuminate them — not to second-guess or silently "improve" them. When uncertain, do less and ask more.

There are three input modes — identify which applies before proceeding:

  • Extract mode: User shares content (manuscript, session log, scene draft, research) to mine for knowledge
  • Reconstruct mode: A relic was deleted or lost; rebuild it from memory sources
  • Audit mode: User wants to check what's covered, what's missing, or what needs updating

Session File Log

Chronicle maintains a running log of every relic file it creates, updates, or skips during the session. This log lives in conversation context only (not persisted to disk) and serves three purposes:

  1. Progress tracking — the user can ask "what have we filed so far?" at any point
  2. Handoff to memorize — after committing, the log tells memorize exactly which files need indexing
  3. Rollback scope — if something goes wrong, it identifies exactly which vault files were touched

Per file, track: filename, vault path, action (created / updated / skipped), and a one-line summary of what changed.

Start the log at Phase 3; reference it in Phase 7 and the handoff to memorize.


Phase 1 — Memory & Context Scan

Before generating anything, gather everything already known. Writing without reading first is how worlds get contradicted.

1a — Load the palace

Call mempalace_status to verify the memory system is live and load the palace layout.

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 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 First seen · 304 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 0a7c9a3d1b2b

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chronicle is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-essential/reliquery (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 3,740 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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