daily-summary-base

daily-summary-base is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ZachBeta/claude-as-coach. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,616 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for creating Markdown files that summarize a chat session, including the dates and time range it covers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create daily or multi-day session summaries, name them consistently, and document work for later reference.
Why use it?
It prevents summaries from being assigned the wrong date when a conversation crosses midnight. It also provides a repeatable structure for recording what happened.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create daily or multi-day session summaries, name them consistently, and document work for later reference.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zachbeta/claude-as-coach/daily-summary-base
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ZachBeta/claude-as-coach --skill daily-summary-base
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZachBeta/claude-as-coach

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,616 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 $0.00060 $0.01616
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00808
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00162

Measured 12d ago against content hash 82e127312d2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

daily-summary-base 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.

skills/daily-summary-base/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Daily Summary Generator (Base Framework)

Purpose: Create summary document capturing a conversation session's events.

Key principle: Summary is OF the session, not FOR the next day. Filename reflects the time span covered.

Reality acknowledged: Sessions often span calendar boundaries. Summaries may cover "Thursday afternoon through Friday morning" rather than clean calendar days. The naming convention should reflect actual coverage.

Process

1. Verify Current Date/Time

CRITICAL FIRST STEP - Prevents date confusion

TZ='America/New_York' date '+%A, %B %d, %Y - %I:%M %p %Z'

Confirm actual date/time in user's timezone.

2. Determine Summary Range

Ask user: "What time range does this summary cover?"

Typical scenarios:

  • Same-day session: "Today from morning until now"
  • Spanning session: "Yesterday afternoon through this morning"
  • Backfilling: User provides specific range

Always confirm: "Generating summary covering [Start Day/Time] to [End Day/Time]. Correct?"

Determine if single-day or range:

  • If session starts and ends on same calendar day → single-day format
  • If session spans calendar boundaries → range format

3. Ask for Context Tag

"What's the context tag for this session?"

User provides tag representing current state (e.g., week-3-day-2, rest-day).

4. Generate Filename

⚠️ CRITICAL: Filename must follow template exactly

Single-day format:

Summary-YYYY-MM-DD-Day-[context-tag].md

Example: Summary-2025-11-15-Saturday-week-3-day-2.md

Range format (spans calendar boundaries):

Summary-YYYY-MM-DD-Day-to-DD-Day-[context-tag].md

Example: Summary-2026-01-15-Thu-to-16-Fri-week-5-long-run.md

Rules:

  • Use abbreviated day names in range format: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
  • Use full day names in single-day format: Monday, Tuesday, etc.
  • Range uses primary day's context tag (the day with bulk of session content)
  • Save to: /mnt/user-data/outputs/

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

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 · 242 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 82e127312d2d

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daily-summary-base is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZachBeta/claude-as-coach (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,616 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.

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