Agent skill

Proactivity

by Prismer-AI in Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud

Propose a proactive action (a clarifying question or a heads-up) to your human manager WITHOUT spamming.

Install Proactivity

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud proactivity --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/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity .claude/skills/proactivity && 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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "proactivity" agent skill from https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud/tree/main/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity into .claude/skills/proactivity/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "proactivity", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud/tree/main/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud proactivity --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity .agents/skills/proactivity && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "proactivity" agent skill from https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud/tree/main/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity into .agents/skills/proactivity/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "proactivity", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud proactivity --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity .cursor/skills/proactivity && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "proactivity" agent skill from https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud/tree/main/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity into .cursor/skills/proactivity/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "proactivity", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud.git --path sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud proactivity --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity .gemini/skills/proactivity && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "proactivity" agent skill from https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud/tree/main/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity into .gemini/skills/proactivity/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "proactivity", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud proactivity

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity .github/skills/proactivity && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "proactivity" agent skill from https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud/tree/main/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity into .github/skills/proactivity/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "proactivity", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud proactivity --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity .opencode/skills/proactivity && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "proactivity" agent skill from https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud/tree/main/sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity into .opencode/skills/proactivity/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "proactivity", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: proactivity
GitHub stars: 1.6k
Token cost: ~987 tokens
SKILL.md length: 431 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 88
Repo updated: Sep 30, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Propose a proactive action (a clarifying question or a heads-up) to your human manager WITHOUT spamming.

Works in 4 steps: SENSE — across the work you just did,… → REFLECT — for each candidate, ask the… → SELECT — keep at most ONE, occasionally… → …
Youve noticed something durable and worth surfacing — a blocker
SKILL.md covers SENSE → REFLECT → SELECT →…, Soft self-gate (REFLECT), How to propose (CLI) and Hard rules
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Proactivity is an agent skill from Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud. Propose a proactive action (a clarifying question or a heads-up) to your human manager WITHOUT spamming. Use when you've noticed something durable and worth surfacing — a blocker, an ambiguity that will bite later, a risk — but it isn't urgent enough to interrupt mid-task. Every proposal goes through the cloud propose pipeline, which dedups, gates, budgets, and surfaces it on the human's existing notification rail. Soft self-gate first.

Its SKILL.md is about 990 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Requirements gathering. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Youve noticed something durable and worth surfacing — a blocker
An ambiguity that will bite later
A risk — but it isnt urgent enough to interrupt mid-task

Example prompts

“/proactivity”

Workflow steps

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

SENSE — across the work you just did, what did you notice that the human
REFLECT — for each candidate, ask the soft self-gate (below). Drop anything
SELECT — keep at most ONE, occasionally two, of the highest-value items.
propose — emit it through the CLI. Pick the kind

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e5d9444. 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 (its code samples are bash).
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

Proactivity loads about 987 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 113 tokens; SKILL.md has 431 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~113
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~987

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 Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud at commit e5d9444, republished under its MIT licence (© Prismer-AI). 431 words, ~987 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/proactivity/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: proactivity
description: Propose a proactive action (a clarifying question or a heads-up) to your human manager WITHOUT spamming. Use when you've noticed something durable and worth surfacing — a blocker, an ambiguity that will bite later, a risk — but it isn't urgent enough to interrupt mid-task. Every proposal goes through the cloud propose pipeline, which dedups, gates, budgets, and surfaces it on the human's existing notification rail. Soft self-gate first.
scope: persistence
applies_to: hermes, claude-code, openclaw, codex
version: 1

Proactivity

Use this skill to propose a proactive action — never to spam. The cloud runs a discipline firewall (dedup → cooldown → gate → budget → promote) and only a small number of proposals per workspace per day ever reach the human. So your job is to self-gate hard and propose only the few things that genuinely earn the interrupt.

You propose. The cloud decides whether it surfaces. If your proposal is deduped, gated out, or over budget, that is the system working — do not retry or rephrase to get around it.

SENSE → REFLECT → SELECT → propose

SENSE — across the work you just did, what did you notice that the human doesn't already know and would want to know?
REFLECT — for each candidate, ask the soft self-gate (below). Drop anything that fails.
SELECT — keep at most ONE, occasionally two, of the highest-value items. Resist the urge to surface everything.
propose — emit it through the CLI. Pick the kind:
- clarify → a question you need the human to answer (surfaces as a prompt).
- notify / surface → a heads-up (surfaces as a notification, no answer needed).

Soft self-gate (REFLECT)

Only propose if all are true:

It's durable — still matters in hours/days, not a passing detail.
It's not derivable — the human can't already see it from the task result.
It needs them — either a decision only they can make (clarify), or a risk they'd want flagged (notify). If you can just handle it, handle it; don't propose.
It's not noise — you'd be comfortable if they saw it and thought "good catch", not "why are you pinging me about this".

If in doubt, don't propose. A missed heads-up costs less than rail spam.

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How to propose (CLI)

bash

# A clarifying question (needs a human answer)
cloud proactivity propose \
  --workspace <workspaceId> \
  --rule <ruleId> \
  --kind clarify \
  --target <managerImUserId> \
  --title "Which deploy target — test or prod?" \
  --body "The task spec says 'ship it' but two clusters are configured. I need one before I proceed."

# A heads-up (no answer needed)
cloud proactivity propose \
  --workspace <workspaceId> \
  --rule <ruleId> \
  --kind notify \
  --target <managerImUserId> \
  --title "API key expires in 3 days" \
  --body "Noticed while reading the config — the prod key rotates 2026-06-28."

--rule is the human-authored watcher this proposal belongs to. Rules are created by humans, never by you — if you don't have a rule id, you have nothing to propose under; ask the human to create one. The propose call returns one of:

promoted — it reached the human's rail.
deduped — an identical proposal already exists (you're done; do not retry).
gated_out — below the gate / inside the cooldown window (do not retry).
over_budget — the workspace's daily proactivity budget is spent (do not retry).

Any non-promoted outcome is final for this attempt. Move on.

Hard rules

⛔ Do not propose to get around a gated_out / over_budget / deduped result.
⛔ Do not invent a rule id or author a rule yourself — rules are human-authored.
⛔ Do not read another user's private memory to build a proposal. Only surface what you legitimately observed in your own session.
✅ Prefer ONE high-value proposal over several mediocre ones.

Files

Just SKILL.md in sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity of Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e5d9444

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Questions about Proactivity

What does Proactivity do?

Propose a proactive action (a clarifying question or a heads-up) to your human manager WITHOUT spamming. Proactivity is an agent skill from Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud. Propose a proactive action (a clarifying question or a heads-up) to your human manager WITHOUT spamming.

When should I use Proactivity?

Proactivity fits situations like: youve noticed something durable and worth surfacing — a blocker; an ambiguity that will bite later; A risk — but it isnt urgent enough to interrupt mid-task.

How do I install Proactivity in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity in Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud) into .claude/skills/proactivity in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Proactivity in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (sdk/cloud/catalog/skills/proactivity in Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud) into .agents/skills/proactivity in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Proactivity 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 Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud --skill proactivity -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/proactivity, .gemini/skills/proactivity, .github/skills/proactivity and .opencode/skills/proactivity in your project.

What does Proactivity need to run?

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

Does Proactivity 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 Proactivity 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 Proactivity use?

Proactivity 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 Proactivity use?

About 987 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k 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 Proactivity?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Proactivity: Using Superpowers (farm-fe/farm, 5.6k stars), Interview Me (addyosmani/agent-skills, 103k stars), Grilling (pietheinstrengholt/rssmonster, 564 stars) and Agentic Workflow Designer (dotnet/Open-XML-SDK, 4.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Proactivity?

Prismer-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud, which has 1,555 GitHub stars. The repository holds 88 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 30, 2026.

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

Proactivity

Install Proactivity

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Proactivity

SENSE → REFLECT → SELECT → propose

Soft self-gate (REFLECT)

How to propose (CLI)

Hard rules

Files

Compare with similar skills

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Install Proactivity

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Proactivity

SENSE → REFLECT → SELECT → propose

Soft self-gate (REFLECT)

How to propose (CLI)

Hard rules

Files

Compare with similar skills

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