Summarize Folder
Documentssummarize-folderSummarize Folder is an Agent Skill for documents published in the CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.
Create a summary of all files in a folder
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How to use this skill
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- Copy and paste the prompt below.
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Prompt to paste
Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS/blob/HEAD/resources/skills/summarize-folder/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/summarize-folder, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.
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Summarize Folder
Purpose
Create a summary of all files in a folder
Routing
- Use when: Use when the user asks to create a summary of all files in a folder.
- Do not use when: Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
- Outputs: Outcome from Summarize Folder: task-specific result plus concrete action notes.
- Success criteria: Returns concrete actions and decisions matching the requested task, with no fabricated tool-side behavior.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the summarize-folder skill for this request.
- Help me with summarize folder.
- Use when the user asks to create a summary of all files in a folder.
- Summarize Folder: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
- Do not use summarize-folder for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside summarize folder scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| path | string | Yes | Folder path to summarize |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 372 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../summarize-folder.json.