work

work is a command for coding agents from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (752 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for carrying out a bees task, issue, or epic through Forge, a defined multi-step workflow for planning, implementing, and reviewing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select the next ready task or work on a specified issue or epic, including breaking larger work into parts and coordinating agents.
Why use it?
It provides an established process for taking tracked work from a ready item to completed changes.

Command

Part of the core plugin — 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook 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 commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Or install core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 752 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 $0.00022 $0.00752
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00075

Measured yesterday against content hash d803d4a5a0d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/core/commands/work.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work the target with Forge — the agent-loop operating model. Target: $ARGUMENTS

First, load skills

Invoke the Skill tool for each by exact name before any other step:

  • /core:anti-fabrication
  • /core:git
  • /core:tdd
  • /core:twelve-factor
  • /core:restraint
  • /core:security
  • /core:mise
  • /core:nushell
  • /core:agent-loop
  • /core:bees
  • /claude-code:claude-agents (always, before spawning) and /claude-code:claude-teams (when spawning ≥2 parallel workers)
  • Domain skills for the target's labels, by exact name.

/core:agent-loop carries Forge (paired teams, the hands pattern, fan-out); /core:bees is the tracker.

Canonical list: /core:agent-loop "Core Skills (Mandatory)"; drift-checked in CI.

Quote one sentence from /core:agent-loop describing Forge as proof of loading.

Resolve the target

  • ready (or empty) → run bees ready and take the top item.
  • An epic id (e.g. VIN-42) → work the epic: run Phase 1.5 decomposition gate, then Forge per issue.
  • An issue id (e.g. claude-skills-77) → work that single issue with Forge.

Run Forge

Apply the agent-loop 4-phase execution with Forge as the operating model — no need to ask which tier system to use, Forge is the default:

  1. Pre-flight — load skills (above), confirm the tracker item, branch from fresh origin/main (feat/<slug>).
  2. Plan — spawn a Test Planner (opus) preceded by a hands pass that builds its ## Starting index; the planner slices the issue into independent test groups. The Plan Reviewer (fable) checks AC-to-slice coverage, unsatisfiable slices, and dep-wave validity before the Test Author is spawned — the plan pair's own reviewer gate. See references/forge.md.
  3. Author + review tests — Test Author (sonnet) writes failing tests; the Test Reviewer (fable, with haiku hands) verifies plan-conformance and non-redundancy before any implementor starts.
  4. Implement (fan out) — one Implementor + Test Runner pair per slice, dispatched in dependency waves. N=1 for a one-slice issue.
  5. Review — Reviewer then Final Reviewer (fable, each with haiku hands consuming a startup index, never searching themselves); review findings route to a Remediation pair, then re-review.
  6. Validate + submitmise run ci green, gitleaks, push, open the PR. Merge per the deployment's merge policy (/core:git "Merge authorization"); under the default, report the PR URL and wait for operator approval.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. yesterday Changed d803d4a5a0d5
  2. 5d ago First seen · 49 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A cbc5fc86213e

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work is a command published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (24 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 752 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.