process-optimization

process-optimization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 53 tokens per session (285 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process-optimization guide examines how work is currently done and designs a better version. It looks for waiting, repeated work, unnecessary steps, handoffs, and tasks that could be automated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze bottlenecks, streamline workflows, reduce manual work, and compare a current process with a proposed future process.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a workflow is slow or error-prone instead of only describing the symptoms. The result is a practical improvement plan with expected effects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the operations plugin — 9 skills shipped together

About the project

Knowledge Work Plugins is an open-source collection of Claude extensions organized around roles such as productivity, sales, and customer support. Each plugin combines role-specific guidance, connectors, commands, and sub-agents so knowledge workers can use Claude with their team’s tools and processes. The catalogue entries are examples of, or workflows from, this plugin collection.

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins · 23,849 stars · on GitHub

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/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/process-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill process-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install operations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 285 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 $0.00053 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash 14099838fdbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

process-optimization 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

operations/skills/process-optimization/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Process Optimization

Analyze existing processes and recommend improvements.

Analysis Framework

1. Map Current State

  • Document every step, decision point, and handoff
  • Identify who does what and how long each step takes
  • Note manual steps, approvals, and waiting times

2. Identify Waste

  • Waiting: Time spent in queues or waiting for approvals
  • Rework: Steps that fail and need to be redone
  • Handoffs: Each handoff is a potential point of failure or delay
  • Over-processing: Steps that add no value
  • Manual work: Tasks that could be automated

3. Design Future State

  • Eliminate unnecessary steps
  • Automate where possible
  • Reduce handoffs
  • Parallelize independent steps
  • Add checkpoints (not gates)

4. Measure Impact

  • Time saved per cycle
  • Error rate reduction
  • Cost savings
  • Employee satisfaction improvement

Output

Produce a before/after process comparison with specific improvement recommendations, estimated impact, and an implementation plan.

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 First seen · 40 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 14099838fdbf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

process-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,849 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 285 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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