odysseus

name	odysseus
description	Use when the user asks Claude Code to read or write Odysseus data (todos, email, calendar, memory, documents) or to launch/monitor/stop a Cookbook model-serve task through the scoped Claude Agent API. Requires ODYSSEUS_URL and ODYSSEUS_API_TOKEN.

Odysseus

Use this skill when a user asks to interact with Odysseus from Claude Code.

Configuration

Expect these environment variables:

• ODYSSEUS_URL: Base URL for the user's Odysseus instance, for example http://127.0.0.1:7000.
• ODYSSEUS_API_TOKEN: Scoped API token created in Odysseus Settings > Integrations > Add Integration > Claude Agent.

If either value is missing, do not guess credentials. Tell the user to create a Claude Agent token in Odysseus Settings and expose both values to the terminal session.

When to use what

• Reminder ("remind me at 5pm to do X") → TODO with due_date. The due_date IS the reminder — it fires a notification automatically via the user's configured channel (browser/email/ntfy). Do NOT create a calendar event for a reminder. Creating a calendar event named "Reminder" does NOT trigger a notification — it's just a time block on the calendar.
• Calendar event ("meeting at 3pm", "dentist Tuesday 10am") → calendar event. Use for scheduled time blocks, meetings, appointments, recurring schedules. These show up on the calendar grid; reminders for them are configured separately in Odysseus settings.
• Note / freeform info ("note that the wifi password is ...") → memory or todo without a due_date (depending on whether it's a fact about the user or an action item).
• Persistent fact / preference about the user → memory.

If the user says "reminder" + a time, default to TODO with due_date. Only switch to calendar if the user explicitly says "calendar", "event", "meeting", "appointment", or describes a time range.

Safety

• All Odysseus data access MUST go through the scoped HTTP API under /api/codex/* (the canonical scope-gated agent API, shared by all agent integrations).
• Check /api/codex/capabilities before using a tool surface.
• Treat 403 as an intentional Settings restriction. Do not work around it.
• Do not use SSH, Docker, direct Python imports, SQLite queries, MCP internals, browser cookies, or local files to read/write Odysseus user data.
• Do not call helpers like do_manage_notes, email MCP internals, or database sessions directly for user data, even if shell access exists.
• Never send email directly unless the user explicitly asks to send and the token has a send-capable scope.
• Keep actions scoped to the token owner.

Todos

The scoped agent API supports todos/checklists:

• GET /api/codex/todos
• POST /api/codex/todos

Use the bundled helper script when available:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py capabilities
python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py todos list
python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py todos add "Follow up"

Supported todo actions are list, add, update, delete, and toggle_item.

Reminders (todos with a due date) — the backend parses natural language. Send due_date in the body via the generic POST so the time becomes a structured reminder, NOT a literal substring inside the title. The todos add TITLE shortcut only sets the title, so use the POST form for anything with a time:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py POST /api/codex/todos '{"action":"add","title":"Call dentist","due_date":"tomorrow at 5pm"}'

The backend accepts both ISO timestamps and natural language like "tomorrow 5pm", "next Monday 9am", "in 2 hours". It anchors to the user's timezone.

Email

The scoped agent API supports email reads:

• GET /api/codex/emails?folder=INBOX&limit=10&offset=0&filter=all
• GET /api/codex/emails/{uid}?folder=INBOX

Use the bundled helper script when available:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py emails list 5
python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py emails read UID

If /api/codex/capabilities does not show email.read: true, do not inspect email. Ask the user to enable Email read in the Claude Agent settings.

Memory

• GET /api/codex/memory — list memories for the token owner.
• POST /api/codex/memory — body {"text": "...", "category": "fact", "source": "user", "session_id": null}. Requires memory:write.
• DELETE /api/codex/memory/{memory_id} — remove a memory entry. Requires memory:write.

python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py GET /api/codex/memory
python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py POST /api/codex/memory '{"text":"User prefers SI units","category":"preference"}'

Calendar

• GET /api/codex/calendar/events?start=ISO&end=ISO — list events in window.
• POST /api/codex/calendar/events — body matches EventCreate (summary, dtstart, dtend, all_day, description, location, calendar_href, rrule, color). Requires calendar:write.
• DELETE /api/codex/calendar/events/{uid} — delete event by uid (the value returned in the POST response). Requires calendar:write.

Documents

• GET /api/codex/documents?search=...&limit=50 — paginated library.
• GET /api/codex/documents/{doc_id} — fetch one document.
• POST /api/codex/documents — body {"session_id": "...", "title": "...", "content": "...", "language": "markdown"}. Requires documents:write.
• DELETE /api/codex/documents/{doc_id} — delete a document. Requires documents:write.

Email draft + send

• Prefer POST /api/codex/emails/draft-document for agent-written email replies. It creates an editable Odysseus Document with language: "email" and does not touch IMAP/send.
• POST /api/codex/emails/draft — body matches SendEmailRequest (to, cc, bcc, subject, body, body_html, attachments, account_id, in_reply_to, references). Requires email:draft (or email:send).
• POST /api/codex/emails/send — same body. Requires email:send. Never send without explicit user instruction.

Cookbook serve (debug a failing model launch)

The Cookbook surface lets you reproduce what a human would do in Odysseus → Cookbook: read which serves are running, tail their tmux output to see why they crashed, edit the launch command, relaunch, kill a stuck one. Use this when the user is debugging a model server that won't come up (compute-capability errors, OOM, missing kernels, wrong attention backend, etc.).

• GET /api/codex/cookbook/tasks — list active serve/download/install tasks (sessionId, type, status, repo_id, remoteHost, payload._cmd). Requires cookbook:read.
• GET /api/codex/cookbook/servers — list configured servers (name, host, port, env type + path, model dirs). Requires cookbook:read.
• GET /api/codex/cookbook/cached?host=<NAME> — list models already cached on the named server (HF cache + Ollama + extra modelDirs). Call BEFORE serve to see what's already on disk. Requires cookbook:read.
• GET /api/codex/cookbook/presets — list saved serve presets (model + host + port + cmd). The user's saved preset usually has a working cmd — try preset NAME before composing your own. Requires cookbook:read.
• GET /api/codex/cookbook/output/{session_id}?tail=400 — read the last N lines of the task's persistent log file (preferred) or tmux pane (fallback). The log file persists across vllm crashes, so this returns the actual Python traceback even after the bash prompt + neofetch banner overwrites the pane. Default tail=400. Requires cookbook:read.
• POST /api/codex/cookbook/serve — launch a serve task. Body matches ServeRequest: { repo_id, cmd, remote_host?, ssh_port?, env_prefix?, gpus?, platform? }. The cmd is validated: leading binary must be vllm/python3/sglang/llama-server/ollama/node/npx. NEVER prefix with cd …, source …, or chain with &&/||/;/$(...) — the validator rejects shell metacharacters. The venv activation (env_prefix) is added automatically from the host's saved settings, so pass the bare binary + args. Requires cookbook:launch.
• POST /api/codex/cookbook/preset/{name} — launch a saved preset by name. Reuses the working cmd + host the user already saved. Requires cookbook:launch.
• POST /api/codex/cookbook/adopt — register an externally-launched tmux session into cookbook tracking. Body: { tmux_session, model, host?, port? }. Use this when serve_model rejected a cmd and you fell back to direct ssh+tmux — without adoption, the session is invisible to the UI. Requires .

# Survey what's running
python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py cookbook tasks

# Tail the failing one (sessionId from `cookbook tasks`)
python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py cookbook output serve-abc12345 400

# Stop the previous attempt before you try a new flag set
python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py cookbook stop serve-abc12345

# Relaunch with new flags. cmd MUST begin with one of the allowlisted binaries.
python3 ~/.claude/skills/odysseus/scripts/odysseus_api.py cookbook serve \
  /mnt/HADES/models/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-AWQ \
  "vllm serve /mnt/HADES/models/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-AWQ --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8001 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --max-model-len 262144 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90 --dtype auto --max-num-seqs 8 --trust-remote-code --enable-expert-parallel --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --reasoning-parser qwen3" \
  pewds@192.168.1.12

Debug loop pattern: when a serve is failing, the productive sequence is

1. cookbook tasks → find the failing sessionId.
2. cookbook output SID 600 → read the last 600 lines, find the actual root-cause line (often above the visible tail because tmux scrollback rolled — request a larger tail if the error references "above").
3. cookbook stop SID — kill the previous attempt before relaunching; two serves on the same --port collide.
4. cookbook serve repo "new cmd" — try the next variation. Wait ~20s, then cookbook output on the new sessionId.

Hard limits this surface enforces:

• cookbook serve cmd allowlist + shell-metacharacter rejection — you cannot run arbitrary shell, only model-server binaries.
• cookbook stop only targets task sessionIds matching [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+.
• The agent CAN spawn GPU-pinning long-lived processes — always cookbook stop your previous attempt before relaunching, and check cookbook tasks for collisions on the same --port before launching.

Forbidden Bypass Pattern

If you are about to reach the Odysseus host/container, import app internals, query the database, or call MCP helper modules directly, stop. Those paths bypass Odysseus Settings and token scopes. Ask the user to enable the relevant Claude Agent tool toggle instead.