ignore-topic

ignore-topic is a skill for Claude Code from usernameisthebestofthebest/claude-recap. It costs 50 tokens per session (536 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ignore-topic, MIT.

A project rule manager for excluding selected topics from being archived. Archived topics are saved summaries or records kept for later reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, remove, or list global or project-specific ignore patterns for topics.
Why use it?
It prevents matching topics from creating archive files or triggering summary work while still allowing them to be tagged.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claude-recap plugin — 4 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to add, remove, or list global or project-specific ignore patterns for topics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/usernameisthebestofthebest/claude-recap/ignore-topic
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 usernameisthebestofthebest/claude-recap --skill ignore-topic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/usernameisthebestofthebest/claude-recap

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-recap, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 hooks.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 536 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.00536
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00268
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 12d ago against content hash 12d8d3aabbd6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ignore-topic 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to ignore-topic — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/ignore-topic/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

ignore-topic

Manage .ignore rules — glob patterns that prevent matching topic slugs from being archived. Topics still get tagged but archival is skipped (no LLM summary call, no file written).

Step 1: Determine operation

Parse the user's message for operation (add/remove/list) and patterns. If clear, skip to Step 2.

Otherwise, ask using AskUserQuestion:

What would you like to do?
- Add: Add ignore patterns (topics matching these will not be archived)
- Remove: Remove an existing ignore pattern
- List: Show all current ignore rules

Step 2: Execute

add:

  1. If no patterns provided, ask for patterns (space-separated, glob supported: *, ?, [...]).
  2. Ask scope via AskUserQuestion:
    Which scope?
    - Global: applies to all projects (~/.memory/.ignore)
    - Project: applies only to this project
    
  3. Run:
    bash "<plugin_scripts_path>/ignore-topic.sh" add "<scope>" <pattern1> [pattern2 ...]
    
    <scope>: global or the project dir path from SessionStart context.

remove:

  1. If no pattern provided, ask which pattern to remove.
  2. Ask scope (global or project).
  3. Run:
    bash "<plugin_scripts_path>/ignore-topic.sh" remove "<scope>" "<pattern>"
    

list:

bash "<plugin_scripts_path>/ignore-topic.sh" list "<project_dir>"

Path resolution

  • <plugin_scripts_path>: from SessionStart injection Plugin scripts path: ...
  • <project_dir>: from SessionStart injection Your persistent memory is stored at <project_dir>

Examples

User says Operation Scope question?
/ignore-topic add git-* lint-fix add git-* and lint-fix Yes
/ignore-topic Ask all Yes
/ignore-topic list list No
"don't archive run-tests topics" add run-tests Yes
/ignore-topic remove git-* remove git-* Yes
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 · 69 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 12d8d3aabbd6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ignore-topic is a skill published in the GitHub repository usernameisthebestofthebest/claude-recap (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 536 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ignore-topic, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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