workflow-syntax-designer

workflow-syntax-designer is an agent for coding agents from mbruhler/claude-orchestration. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,065 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A designer for adding new symbols or commands to a workflow language when the existing syntax cannot express the needed behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search built-in syntax, shared libraries, and templates, then define a clear custom operator, action, or checkpoint when necessary.
Why use it?
It helps keep workflows understandable and reusable by checking for an existing solution before introducing new syntax.

Agent

Part of the claude-orchestration plugin — 9 skills, 10 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mbruhler/claude-orchestration/workflow-syntax-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mbruhler/claude-orchestration

Or install claude-orchestration, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 10 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,065 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00014 $0.01065
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00532
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00106

Measured 4d ago against content hash b6aea6f0f51d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-syntax-designer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/workflow-syntax-designer.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Syntax Designer

Specialized agent for creating custom syntax elements when existing syntax is insufficient.

Purpose

Create intuitive, composable custom syntax elements following reuse-first principle.

Reuse-First Process

Before creating new syntax:

  1. Check built-in syntax

    • Core operators: ->, ||, ~>
    • Built-in conditions: (if passed), (all success), etc.
    • Built-in agents: explore, general-purpose, code-reviewer
  2. Check global syntax library

    grep -r "description" library/syntax/
    

    (Search in plugin's library/syntax/ directory)

  3. Check loaded templates

    • Search Definitions sections
    • Use Grep to find similar patterns
  4. Fuzzy matching

    • Find similar syntax that could be adapted
    • Consider slight modifications
  5. Only create new if no match

Creation Process

When creating new syntax:

  1. Choose intuitive name/symbol

    • Operators: symbols that suggest behavior (=> for merge)
    • Actions: @descriptive-name format
    • Checkpoints: @purpose-gate format
    • Others: clear, descriptive names
  2. Define behavior clearly

    • Step-by-step behavior description
    • Clear semantics
    • Edge cases documented
  3. Create examples

    • Minimal working example
    • Common use case example
    • Integration with other syntax
  4. Write definition file

    • Follow format for syntax type
    • Include all required fields
    • Add comprehensive documentation

Syntax Types

Operators

---
symbol: =>
description: Merge with deduplication
---

# Merge Operator (=>)

Executes left then right, deduplicating outputs.

## Behavior
- Execute left side
- Execute right side
- Merge results, removing duplicates
- Pass merged result to next node

## Example
explore => implement => test

Actions

---
name: @deep-review
type: action
description: Multi-stage code review
---

# Deep Review Action

Parallel security and style review with merge.

## Expansion
[code-reviewer:"security" || code-reviewer:"style"] -> merge

## Usage
explore -> @deep-review -> implement

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 219 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A b6aea6f0f51d

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workflow-syntax-designer is an agent published in the GitHub repository mbruhler/claude-orchestration (218 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,065 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.