Kill The Standup

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asked to write a standup
• Generate a standup update
• Post to the standup channel
• Summarize yesterdays work

Example prompts

• “s work, or automate the daily standup. Trigger when a user says”
• “post standup”
• “generate standup update”
• “/kill-the-standup”

Requirements

• A credential in LINEAR_API_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): ["claude-code","gemini-cli","github-copilot"]

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Setup Check
2. 2Fetch Linear Activity
3. 3Fetch GitHub Commits
4. 4Format Standup
5. 5Post to Slack or Output

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 62e437a. 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

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl
  • gh

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

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • api.linear.app

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

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • LINEAR_API_KEY

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

• Compatibility

  ["claude-code","gemini-cli","github-copilot"]

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Kill The Standup loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 115 tokens; SKILL.md has 377 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~115

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

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~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

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:27

  API → Personal API keys. Add it to your .env file."

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:30

  App → Incoming Webhooks. Add it to your .env file."

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 Varnan-Tech/opendirectory at commit 62e437a, republished under its MIT licence (© Varnan-Tech). 377 words, ~1,263 tokens.

name

kill-the-standup

description

Reads yesterday's Linear issues and GitHub commits for the authenticated user, formats a standup update (done / doing / blockers), and posts it to Slack. Use when asked to write a standup, generate a standup update, post to the standup channel, summarize yesterday's work, or automate the daily standup. Trigger when a user says "write my standup", "post standup", "generate standup update", "what did I do yesterday", or "kill the standup".

compatibility

["claude-code","gemini-cli","github-copilot"]

author

OpenDirectory

version

1.0.0

echo "LINEAR_API_KEY: ${LINEAR_API_KEY:+set}"
echo "SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL:+set}"
echo "GITHUB_REPO: ${GITHUB_REPO:-not set}"
echo "GITHUB_USERNAME: ${GITHUB_USERNAME:-not set}"

curl -s -X POST https://api.linear.app/graphql \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LINEAR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "query { viewer { id name email } }"}'

curl -s -X POST https://api.linear.app/graphql \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LINEAR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "query($since: DateTime!, $userId: ID!) { issues(first: 50, filter: { assignee: { id: { eq: $userId } } updatedAt: { gte: $since } }) { edges { node { identifier title state { name } url completedAt updatedAt createdAt } } } }",
    "variables": {"since": "YESTERDAY_ISO", "userId": "LINEAR_USER_ID"}
  }'

gh api "repos/$GITHUB_REPO/commits?author=${GITHUB_USERNAME:-$(gh api user --jq .login)}&since=YESTERDAY_ISO&per_page=30" \
  --jq '[.[] | {message: .commit.message, url: .html_url}]'

**Done**
- [ENG-123] Title of completed issue
- fix: commit message here

**Doing**
- [ENG-124] Title of in-progress issue

**Blockers**
No blockers.

curl -s -X POST "$SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "blocks": [
      {
        "type": "section",
        "text": {
          "type": "mrkdwn",
          "text": "*Standup — DATE_HERE*\n\n*Done*\nITEMS\n\n*Doing*\nITEMS\n\n*Blockers*\nITEMS"
        }
      }
    ]
  }'

cat > /tmp/standup-payload.json << 'ENDJSON'
{
  "blocks": [
    {
      "type": "section",
      "text": {
        "type": "mrkdwn",
        "text": "STANDUP_CONTENT_HERE"
      }
    }
  ]
}
ENDJSON
curl -s -X POST "$SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @/tmp/standup-payload.json

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Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in skills/kill-the-standup of Varnan-Tech/opendirectory.

• SKILL.md
• .env.example
• README.md
• evals/evals.json
• references/standup-format.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 62e437a

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Varnan-Tech/opendirectory, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• majiayu000/claude-skill-registryskills/bash/kill-the-standup