Agent skill

Away Quiet Supervision

by kunchenguid in kunchenguid/firstmate

Load whenever /afk or /quiet is invoked, an away or quiet record exists, or a marked away-supervisor message arrives.

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Install Away Quiet Supervision

skills CLI
$ npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill away-quiet-supervision -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install kunchenguid/firstmate away-quiet-supervision --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/kunchenguid/firstmate.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/away-quiet-supervision .claude/skills/away-quiet-supervision && 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
away-quiet-supervision
GitHub stars
7.8k
Token cost
~735 tokens
SKILL.md length
399 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
29
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Load whenever /afk or /quiet is invoked, an away or quiet record exists, or a marked away-supervisor message arrives.

  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Away Quiet Supervision is an agent skill from kunchenguid/firstmate. Load whenever /afk or /quiet is invoked, an away or quiet record exists, or a marked away-supervisor message arrives.

Its SKILL.md is about 740 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew. The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/away-quiet-supervision”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fb75c1f. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Away Quiet Supervision loads about 735 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 35 tokens; SKILL.md has 399 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~35
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~735

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from kunchenguid/firstmate at commit fb75c1f, republished under its MIT licence (© kunchenguid). 399 words, ~735 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/away-quiet-supervision/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
away-quiet-supervision
description
Load whenever /afk or /quiet is invoked, an away or quiet record exists, or a marked away-supervisor message arrives.
user-invocable
false
metadata.internal
true

Away and quiet supervision safety

The /afk and /quiet skills own their respective entry procedures and share the daemon machinery; architecture owns the captain-held recheck difference between their postures. These safety facts apply to both:

  • Every current daemon injection uses the away-supervisor kind from bin/fm-operational-input.sh after FM_OPERATIONAL_PREFIX (U+2063 INVISIBLE SEPARATOR followed by FIRSTMATE_OP: ), except that a Claude Code primary, which strips U+2063, receives that owner's record-backed doorbell and it counts as marked only when bin/fm-operational-input.sh open <path> verifies its record; the /afk skill owns legacy bare-marker compatibility.
  • state/.afk-contract is the away posture, written in the same turn as /afk before any other work, because /afk is itself the go: no read-back gates entry or waits for a go; entry announces hold-for-return only, and the away session acts on those words by its own judgment through the guarded scripts under standing authority, holding for the return on doubt. A record carrying quiet mode (bin/fm-afk-contract.sh mode) is quiet mode's instead: the captain is present, it holds nothing for a return, and requested actions proceed under ordinary attended authority.
  • While state/.afk exists, the daemon owns supervision; do not arm a separate watcher. The daemon is never launched on Pi, where the ordinary supervision session continues under the record with main parked: the branch takes every safe actionable wake it can, and only a declined wake (including a broken branch or unsafe scan) or a watcher failure wakes main. Away mode on a non-Pi home that runs the supervision host (by default on Claude; docs/configuration.md "Supervision host") works the same way with the supervision host as the branch; a wake it hands back arrives through that harness's own wake path and is never the captain's return.
  • A marked message while away or quiet mode is active is internal escalation and does not exit that mode.
  • A message beginning /afk refreshes away mode; a message beginning /quiet refreshes quiet mode.
  • Any other unmarked message means the captain returned in away mode (load /afk, run the return owner, and do not process that message as ordinary work until its durable catch-up gate clears), or, in quiet mode, is simply answered as ordinary work with the flag and daemon left untouched until an explicit /quiet off.
  • Away and quiet mode never expand approval authority for merges, ask-user findings, destructive actions, irreversible actions, or security-sensitive choices.
  • Bias ambiguous input toward exit because a present captain takes precedence.

© kunchenguid, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/away-quiet-supervision of kunchenguid/firstmate.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fb75c1f

Compare with similar skills

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Protocol Quiet In GroupsBitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop2.5k—~377Automated safety check: PassMIT
Afk Team WorkflowArcReel/ArcReel5.4k—~794Automated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
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Questions about Away Quiet Supervision

What does Away Quiet Supervision do?

Load whenever /afk or /quiet is invoked, an away or quiet record exists, or a marked away-supervisor message arrives. Away Quiet Supervision is an agent skill from kunchenguid/firstmate. Load whenever /afk or /quiet is invoked, an away or quiet record exists, or a marked away-supervisor message arrives.

How do I install Away Quiet Supervision in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill away-quiet-supervision -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/away-quiet-supervision in kunchenguid/firstmate) into .claude/skills/away-quiet-supervision in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Away Quiet Supervision in Codex?

Run `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill away-quiet-supervision -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/away-quiet-supervision in kunchenguid/firstmate) into .agents/skills/away-quiet-supervision in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Away Quiet Supervision 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 kunchenguid/firstmate --skill away-quiet-supervision -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/away-quiet-supervision, .gemini/skills/away-quiet-supervision, .github/skills/away-quiet-supervision and .opencode/skills/away-quiet-supervision in your project.

What does Away Quiet Supervision need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Away Quiet Supervision is instructions for the agent only.

Does Away Quiet Supervision access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Away Quiet Supervision 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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Away Quiet Supervision use?

Away Quiet Supervision is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Away Quiet Supervision use?

About 735 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k 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 Away Quiet Supervision?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Away Quiet Supervision: Create Invoke Task (DataDog/datadog-agent, 3.8k stars), Afk Retrospective (ArcReel/ArcReel, 5.4k stars), Protocol Quiet In Groups (Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop, 2.5k stars) and Afk Team Workflow (ArcReel/ArcReel, 5.4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Away Quiet Supervision?

kunchenguid (a GitHub user) maintains it in kunchenguid/firstmate, which has 7,756 GitHub stars. The repository holds 29 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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