visual-recap

visual-recap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tslateman/duet. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured visual summary of changes in a pull request, branch, commit, or Git difference. It shows the overall shape of the work before a reviewer reads individual lines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize affected files, user-interface changes, database structure, API agreements, and architecture changes in substantial work.
Why use it?
Large changes are difficult to understand from a raw list of edited lines and files. This gives reviewers a higher-level map of the change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the duet plugin — 25 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

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/tslateman/duet/visual-recap
Any agent
npx skills add tslateman/duet --skill visual-recap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tslateman/duet

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install duet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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 visual-recap

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tslateman/duet/visual-recap.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tslateman/duet/visual-recap)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tslateman/duet/visual-recap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tslateman/duet/visual-recap.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,649 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00070 $0.01649
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00825
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00165

Measured 4d ago against content hash 52514314cd3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-recap 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 4d 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.

skills/visual-recap/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual Recap

A recap is a structured summary built from a diff, not toward one. Forward planning describes the change you are about to make; a recap describes the change that was just made, one altitude above line-by-line review. A reviewer scans the shape of the change, UI delta, schema delta, contract delta, file footprint before spending attention on the literal lines.

Adapted from BuilderIO/skills visual-recap. The discipline is theirs; the output targets are yours. There is no hosted plan renderer here, so author plain artifacts.

When To Use

Build a recap when a PR or commit is large, multi-file, or touches schema, API contracts, or architecture, and a reviewer benefits from seeing the change mapped to structure before reading the diff. Skip it for small, single-file, or obvious diffs, a recap is review overhead, and a tiny change reviews faster as plain diff. Never pad a trivial diff into a recap.

Default scope is the whole work unit: original implementation plus later fixes, tests, and follow-ups, not only the most recent commit. Use the diff plus context to separate work-unit changes from unrelated pre-existing edits, and exclude the unrelated ones. State the assumption if scope is ambiguous.

The Grounding Rule

Structured blocks are true by construction only when derived mechanically from the actual changed lines. Build the file map, schema table, API table, and diffs from the real diff, real paths, real fields, real method and path, real before/after text. Never infer, round, or invent them. The model writes only the prose: the "why", the narrative, the risk read. A confidently wrong recap is dangerous, because a reviewer who trusts the summary skips the line the summary got wrong. When the diff does not contain a fact, leave it out. Mark anything inferred rather than extracted as inferred.

Canonical Shape And Budgets

A strong recap follows one skeleton, top to bottom. Drop any section the diff does not touch.

  1. UI headline, before/after wireframe or screenshot, first, when the diff changed rendered UI.
  2. Outcome narrative, 1-3 paragraphs: what changed and why, the key decisions visible in the diff, the risk a reviewer should weigh. The only place you write freely.
  3. Schema / contract changes, a data-model table for migrations, an endpoint table for API/route changes.
  4. Changed-file map, every changed file with an added/removed/modified/ renamed flag and a one-line note, so the footprint reads at a glance.
  5. Key changes, focused diffs of the 3-8 load-bearing files, each under a one-line summary of what it changes and why.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 133 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 52514314cd3f

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visual-recap is a skill published in the GitHub repository tslateman/duet (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,649 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.