writing-agent-relay-workflows

writing-agent-relay-workflows is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AgentWorkforce/relay. It costs 92 tokens per session (16,543 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for building workflows in which several AI agents coordinate through connected steps. A workflow defines what each agent does and how one step's output becomes another step's input.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating TypeScript, Python, or YAML workflows that coordinate agents such as Claude, Codex, Gemini, Aider, and Goose.
Why use it?
It helps organize multi-agent work with dependencies, retries, verification gates, and repair steps when an output fails a check.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentworkforce/relay/writing-agent-relay-workflows
Any agent
npx skills add AgentWorkforce/relay --skill writing-agent-relay-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 16,543 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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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 $0.00092 $0.16543
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.08271
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.03309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.01654

Measured 5d ago against content hash 61b3cb5d500e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-agent-relay-workflows 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 5d 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/skills/writing-agent-relay-workflows/SKILL.md · 1,524 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,524 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

The @relayflows/core workflow system orchestrates multiple AI agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Aider, Goose) through typed DAG-based workflows. Workflows can be written in TypeScript (preferred), Python, or YAML.

Language preference: TypeScript > Python > YAML. Use TypeScript unless the project is Python-only or a simple config-driven workflow suits YAML.

Pattern selection: Do not default to dag blindly. If the job needs a different swarm/workflow type, consult the choosing-swarm-patterns skill when available and select the pattern that best matches the coordination problem.

When to Use

  • Building multi-agent workflows with step dependencies
  • Orchestrating different AI CLIs (claude, codex, gemini, aider, goose)
  • Creating DAG, pipeline, fan-out, or other swarm patterns
  • Needing verification gates, retries, or step output chaining
  • Designing product-contract workflows where failing checks should route to agents for repair instead of stopping the run
  • Dynamic channel management: agents joining/leaving/muting channels mid-workflow

Non-Negotiable Workflow Checklist

Every generated workflow should satisfy this checklist before it is considered complete:

  1. Start with a deterministic, resumable preflight for repository state, credentials, and declared write scope.
  2. Pick the coordination shape deliberately: Conversation for non-trivial coordination, Pipeline only for linear one-shot handoffs.
  3. Use repairable validation gates: capture red output with failOnError: false, hand it to a repair owner, then rerun the same check.
  4. Run the mandatory fresh-eyes loops in order: Claude review/fix/final review/final fix, then Codex review/fix/final review/final fix.
  5. Require review fixers to add or update appropriate tests, fixtures, assertions, or deterministic proofs for testable findings.
  6. Run final deterministic acceptance after the Codex loop and before commit, PR creation, or handoff.
  7. If a real blocker remains, write BLOCKED_NO_COMMIT with exact evidence and skip commit/PR creation instead of crashing the workflow.
  8. If the workflow owns shipping, model branch, commit, push, PR creation, and PR URL verification as explicit deterministic steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,524 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. 5d ago First seen · 1,524 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 61b3cb5d500e

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writing-agent-relay-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentWorkforce/relay (813 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 16,543 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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