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Agent skill

Catchup

by batmany13 in batmany13/about-me

Catch up on any git repo, one ISO week at a time. An agent skill from batmany13/about-me.

No licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Catchup

skills CLI
$ npx skills add batmany13/about-me --skill catchup -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install batmany13/about-me catchup --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/batmany13/about-me.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/catchup .claude/skills/catchup && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
catchup
GitHub stars
137
Token cost
~14k tokens
SKILL.md length
8,308 words
Files
13 (incl. scripts, assets)
Skills in repo
3
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Catch up on any git repo, one ISO week at a time. An agent skill from batmany13/about-me.

  • Works in 7 steps: Locate the repo and read its config → Resolve the arg to a set of weeks → Pull the week → …
  • Development work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Categories, Step 0: Locate the repo and…, Step 1: Resolve the arg to a… and Step 2: Pull the week, plus 11 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls uv and git

What it does

Catchup is an agent skill from batmany13/about-me. Catch up on any git repo, one ISO week at a time. Runs in two passes: first it extracts durable ENTITIES from the week's activity — meetings and partner notes, technical threads, decisions, corrections — into a per-repo store that accumulates across weeks; then it writes the week's summary from those entities. Entities optionally sync to DeepVista as context cards, one card per entity, updated rather than duplicated. Repo-agnostic: works with no config, and a .claude/catchup.config.json teaches it a repo's people…

Its SKILL.md is about 14k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 16 other files, including scripts and assets (for example `assets/catchup.config.example.json`, `reference/config.md` and `reference/deepvista.md`).

It sits in Development. It works with Git. The repository describes itself as: About my leadership philosophy, a little about me, and a peek into my AI work.

When your agent uses it

  • Development work in your project

Example prompts

  • “s people and vocabulary. Accepts natural args:”
  • “last week”
  • “last 2 weeks”
  • “/catchup”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Locate the repo and read its config
  2. Resolve the arg to a set of weeks
  3. Pull the week
  4. (pass 1): Themes first — hypothesise, then weigh
  5. (pass 2): Render the summary
  6. (optional): Sync entities to DeepVista
  7. Report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bdd5b84. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 5 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • uv
    • git

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use uv and git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Catchup loads about 14k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 202 tokens; SKILL.md has 8,308 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~202
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~14k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 8,308 words (~13,699 tokens).

“A catchup answers "what happened while I was away". This skill answers it twice over: once as a durable record and once as prose.”

— opening of SKILL.md by batmany13
name
catchup

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 12 other files (scripts, assets) in .claude/skills/catchup of batmany13/about-me.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/catchup.config.example.json
  • reference/config.md
  • reference/deepvista.md
  • reference/portability.md
  • scripts/deepvista_cards.py
  • scripts/deploy.py
  • scripts/entities.py
  • scripts/pull_week.py
  • scripts/week_zone.py
  • tests/test_deepvista_cards.py
  • tests/test_entity_fields.py
  • tests/test_week_zone.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bdd5b84

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Questions about Catchup

What does Catchup do?

Catch up on any git repo, one ISO week at a time. An agent skill from batmany13/about-me. Catchup is an agent skill from batmany13/about-me. Catch up on any git repo, one ISO week at a time.

When should I use Catchup?

Catchup fits situations like: development work in your project.

How do I install Catchup in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add batmany13/about-me --skill catchup -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/catchup in batmany13/about-me) into .claude/skills/catchup in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Catchup in Codex?

Run `npx skills add batmany13/about-me --skill catchup -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/catchup in batmany13/about-me) into .agents/skills/catchup in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Catchup in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add batmany13/about-me --skill catchup -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/catchup, .gemini/skills/catchup, .github/skills/catchup and .opencode/skills/catchup in your project.

What does Catchup need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Catchup needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (uv and git). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Catchup access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use uv and git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Catchup safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Catchup use?

No licence was found for Catchup or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Catchup use?

About 14k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 55k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Catchup?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Catchup: Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k stars), Code Review Checklist (shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code, 78k stars), Contributor-First PR Merge (HKUDS/OpenHarness, 16k stars) and Finishing A Development Branch (farm-fe/farm, 5.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Catchup?

batmany13 (a GitHub user) maintains it in batmany13/about-me, which has 137 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: batmany13/about-me on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.