work

work is a command for Claude Code, Codex from fockus/skill-memory-bank. It costs 55 tokens per session (13,423 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that runs an existing Memory Bank workflow for planning, implementing, checking, reviewing, and completing development work. The workflow can use project plans or specification tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute planned work, run verification and review cycles, fix issues, or perform a full requirements-to-completion workflow.
Why use it?
It coordinates repeated development steps and can stop when checks, review rules, budgets, or protected-file rules are not satisfied.

Command for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also reads $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to execute planned work, run verification and review cycles, fix issues, or perform a full requirements-to-completion workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/fockus/skill-memory-bank/work
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fockus/skill-memory-bank

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 13,423 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.13423
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.05369
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.02685
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.01342

Measured 3d ago against content hash b856e670d6be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work 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 3d 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.

commands/work.md · 401 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 401 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/mb work [target] [--workflow NAME] [--tier T] [--verify stage|plan|run|off] [--review] [--fix] [--loop N] [--range A-B] [--auto] [--dry-run] [--budget TOK] [--max-cycles N] [--qa] [--allow-protected]

Run the executable engine using a workflow mode resolved from pipeline.yaml. By default (medium), /mb work is intentionally simple: implement → verify → done from an already-created plan/spec, with one verifier pass at the end of the plan. Presets run from simple (implementer self-check only) through complex (+ one reviewer) to governed (implement → verify → review ensemble → judge → fix/backlog → done); other modes: full-cycle (discuss → sdd → plan → implement → verify → done), requirements-plan, implement-only, review-fix, or review-only. Severity gates, judge gates, token budgets, protected-path checks, and the sprint context guard provide hard stops for --auto mode.

Resolve SKILL_DIR from the loaded skill first (Codex: ${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills/memory-bank); helpers never use bare project-relative scripts/… paths. The fallback below preserves Claude Code: SKILL_DIR="${MB_SKILLS_ROOT:-${SKILL_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/skills/memory-bank}}"; stop if $SKILL_DIR/scripts/_lib.sh is missing.

Cost ladder

Preset (effort tier) Dispatches per item Verifier (default cadence) Tests When to choose
simple (small) — implement → done 1 none; implementer self-checks targeted, by the implementer A small change that still came as a plan.
medium (standard) — implement → verify → done 1 (+1 verifier per plan) plan: once, after the last item targeted per item; full suite once at plan end Default. A plan or spec exists, tests are the evidence.
complex (large) — + review → fix 2 clean, ≤6 with fix cycles (+1 verifier per plan) plan targeted per cycle; full suite once at plan end Cross-cutting work from a spec (discuss → sdd first).
governed (extra) — + review ensemble → judge → fix 8 clean, up to ~25 with fix cycles (+1 verifier per plan) plan targeted per cycle; full suite once at plan end Security, reliability, accuracy; release gates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 401 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. 3d ago Changed b856e670d6be
  2. 14d ago Changed · +2 lines · +27 tokens per session 72802a48e0c9
  3. 23d ago Changed · -1 lines b8c9bfa40a4b
  4. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines 4574c369771b
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 401 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 81d6ce54b7ef

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work is a command published in the GitHub repository fockus/skill-memory-bank (29 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 13,423 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.