Vip

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asks to vip list

Example prompts

• “vip list”
• “who is a VIP”
• “/vip”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Grep, Skill, AskUserQuestion

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Enforce the list — VIP senders rank ahead of everything else in every sweep.
2. 2Require FULL context before answering or drafting for a VIP: the whole
3. 3Order triage output by tier.
4. 4Suggest additions when the signals below appear.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1aa0928. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Grep
  • Skill
  • AskUserQuestion

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python3

  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

Vip loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 27 tokens; SKILL.md has 702 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~27

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.9k

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

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Skill, AskUserQuestion

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 Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops at commit 1aa0928, republished under its MIT licence (© Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited). 702 words, ~1,870 tokens.

name

vip

description

OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "vip list", "who is a VIP", "add someone…

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Grep, Skill, AskUserQuestion

argument-hint

[list|show <person>|set <person> --tier N|suggest|why <person>]

PREFS_PATH="${PREFS_PATH:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/preferences.json}"
read_pref() { [ -f "$PREFS_PATH" ] && python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(open(sys.argv[1])).get(sys.argv[2],"") or "")' "$PREFS_PATH" "$1" 2>/dev/null; }

VIP_LIST_PATH="${VIP_LIST_PATH:-$(read_pref vip_list_path)}"
VIP_LIST_PATH="${VIP_LIST_PATH:-$HOME/.claude-ops/state/vip-list.json}"
VIP_MAX_TIER="${VIP_MAX_TIER:-$(read_pref vip_max_tier)}"
VIP_MAX_TIER="${VIP_MAX_TIER:-2}"

# "No VIPs" and "the VIP list was never set up" are DIFFERENT answers and must
# never look the same. An unconfigured install that silently reports an empty
# list turns this skill into a no-op: every inbox sweep then treats the most
# important people as ordinary traffic and nobody finds out. Fail loud.
if [ ! -f "$VIP_LIST_PATH" ]; then
  echo "vip: no list at $VIP_LIST_PATH — set userConfig vip_list_path or VIP_LIST_PATH." >&2
  echo "vip: copy templates/vip-list.example.json there to start one." >&2
  exit 3
fi

"$RELATIONS_CLI" vip-list --max-tier "$VIP_MAX_TIER"
"$RELATIONS_CLI" vip <person_id> --tier 1 --type personal --reason "<why>"

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

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in claude-ops/skills/vip of Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops.

• SKILL.md
• templates/vip-list.example.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1aa0928