hyper-recap

A written end-of-cycle summary for one completed development plan or milestone. It explains what changed, why decisions were made, and what alternatives were rejected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a plan has been implemented to summarize the completed work. It reads the project's .hyperclaude records and saves a recap in .hyperclaude/recaps/.
Why use it?
AI-driven work can leave people unsure what happened or why. The recap puts the reasoning and changes in one human-readable document.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hyperclaude plugin — 19 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks 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/zeikar/hyperclaude/hyper-recap
Any agent
npx skills add zeikar/hyperclaude --skill hyper-recap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zeikar/hyperclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hyperclaude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,795 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 $0.00135 $0.04795
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.02397
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00959
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00479

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5fdb2457298a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hyper-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 3d 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/hyper-recap/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hyper-recap

Cycle-completion recap. An AI-run cycle leaves the codebase changed but the human out of the loop: the request, the judgments taken, the alternatives rejected, and the critic rounds are all in the AI's head or scattered across gitignored artifacts. That is cognitive debt — without a write-up a human can't reconstruct why and how the AI built what it built. This skill collapses one completed cycle into a single human-readable recap under .hyperclaude/recaps/.

Claude-only — no Codex, no agent dispatch. It joins the non-Codex-spawning set alongside hyper-interview, hyper-memory, and hyper-setup. It never calls the bridge and never dispatches an agent — it only reads .hyperclaude/ artifacts + in-session context and writes one markdown file.

The recap unit is ONE completed detailed plan / milestone (a plan archived under .hyperclaude/plans/done/). Epic-level rollup across milestones is a v1 non-goal. This is NOT a PR draft — it explains the cycle to a human, it does not propose or format changes for merge.

When to use

  • User typed /hyperclaude:hyper-recap [path|slug].
  • A cycle just completed — the plan ran to completion (implement / code-review done) and was archived under .hyperclaude/plans/done/ — and the why/how should be captured.
  • hyper-auto invokes this skill automatically as its terminal step on a clean composed exit (the sole auto-run path; standalone it stays on-demand).

When to skip

  • Mid-cycle. v1 recaps ONLY completed cycles — there is no mid-cycle partial-recap mode. If the target plan is still active (not yet archived), stop and say so (see Target resolution's completion gate).
  • No completed plan exists. Zero .hyperclaude/plans/done/*.md → report "nothing to recap", write NOTHING, stop.

Invocation argument

Invocation argument: $ARGUMENTS

Target resolution

Every branch resolves to a COMPLETED plan under .hyperclaude/plans/done/. Classify $ARGUMENTS:

  • contains / OR ends in .mdpath branch
  • a bare non-empty token → slug branch
  • empty → no-arg branch

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 3d ago First seen · 165 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 5fdb2457298a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hyper-recap is a skill published in the GitHub repository zeikar/hyperclaude (3 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 4,795 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.