records

records is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zookanalytics/gc-toolkit. It costs 100 tokens per session (810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for keeping a written record on a work item, including decisions, findings, outcomes, and its current state. A work item is a tracked task that another person or process may read later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to append decisions or findings to task notes, summarise long notes, and set the short headline shown on the work board.
Why use it?
It preserves the context that disappears when a work session ends. The next person can understand what happened and what changed without relying on a private conversation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to append decisions or findings to task notes, summarise long notes, and set the short headline shown on the work board.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zookanalytics/gc-toolkit/records
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 zookanalytics/gc-toolkit --skill records
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zookanalytics/gc-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 810 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 $0.00100 $0.00810
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00324
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00081

Measured yesterday against content hash 43a9bfc20d2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

records 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 yesterday.

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/records/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Records: what a bead's next reader inherits

A bead carries its own record. The next worker, sitting or person who reads it starts from what is written there, not from your context, which ends with your session. Each option says what the record means, who reads it, and the one writer that sends it.

The writers are the gc-toolkit pack's own scripts. gc <binding> scripts-dir prints their directory in the pack as gc loaded it, so each example calls the pack's copy inside the command itself, and runs in a fresh shell. <binding> is the name the city imports the pack under, which gc puts in front of this skill's name: gc-toolkit in gc-toolkit.records. gc skill list prints it in this skill's FROM column.

Record an outcome on a bead

The message is what was decided or found, why, and what changed. The next reader of the bead picks it up: a sitting primes from the bead's notes, and a worker reads them before it starts.

Writer: gc bd update <bead> --append-notes "<decision or finding, the reason, what changed>".

Notes are append-only. --notes replaces the whole field and erases every note other writers left there, so never use it.

When the notes have grown past a quick read, append a current-state block: where things stand, the decisions in force, and the open questions. The newest current-state block is the one in force, so a reader starts there:

gc bd update <bead> --append-notes "## Current state ($(date -u +%Y-%m-%d))
<where things stand>
Decisions in force: <each decision in force>
Open questions: <each open question, or none>"

A bead's notes are operational state. A durable document, such as a spec, an analysis or a decision record, is a file in a repo, filed through the filing-documentation skill. A sitting writes no files, so it files a bead for the document instead (the work skill).

Set the headline the board shows

The message is one sentence saying what the bead needs now. The helm board shows it as the bead's NEEDS cell, and doctor/check-wait-is-an-edge checks the wait it declares against the bead's blocks edges.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 43a9bfc20d2a

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records is a skill published in the GitHub repository zookanalytics/gc-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 810 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-17.