What is upstream-cortex?

A repository-activity digest organized into three layers: daily changes, connections between commits, pull requests, and issues, and a ranking of days by the weight of their changes. A commit is a saved change to project files.

Use it to review recent repository history, measure issue-to-close timing, and identify the days and areas with the heaviest changes.

It gives more context than counting commits, showing what changed, how related records connect, and which days carried the most substantial work.

upstream-cortex — Skill by the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human

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-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest --skill cortex

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest/cortex/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest/cortex)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest/cortex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest/cortex/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest/cortex"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest/cortex.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,218 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 unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00175	$0.01218
Opus 5.5	$0.00070	$0.00487
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00035	$0.00244
Haiku 4.5	$0.00017	$0.00122

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5f77709698bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upstream-cortex 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (digest.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.

submissions/cortex/SKILL.md · 63 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 5f77709698bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

upstream-cortex is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 1,218 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

Git and workflow

upstream-cortex next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
upstream-cortexthe-oracle-keeps-the-human-human/workshop-03-upstream-digest	Skill	21	4mo ago	none	A	175	Claude Code, Codex
merge-batchdiegosouzapw/OmniRoute	Skill	83k	5d ago	MIT	A	46	Claude Code
prowler-commitprowler-cloud/prowler	Skill	15k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	44	Claude Code, Codex
gh-auth-isolationgithub/gh-aw	Skill	5.6k	yesterday	MIT	A	20	Claude Code, Codex
github-skillzeenie-ai/OpenCompany	Skill	1.1k	yesterday	MIT	A	51	Claude Code
comet-githubrpamis/comet	Skill	3.3k	yesterday	MIT	A	72	Claude Code, Codex
release-helperSahir619/fable-method	Skill	2.3k	1mo ago	MIT	A	43	Claude Code