automate

automate is a skill for Claude Code from arbazkhan971/godmode. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,611 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for automating recurring or event-driven development and operational tasks. It covers schedules, webhooks, task runners, scripts, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create cron jobs, GitHub Actions, Makefiles, webhooks, migration scripts, or automated test and deployment workflows.
Why use it?
It removes repeated manual steps for tasks such as testing, building, deploying, reporting, and cleanup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the godmode plugin — 132 skills, 1 command, 7 agents, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to create cron jobs, GitHub Actions, Makefiles, webhooks, migration scripts, or automated test and deployment workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arbazkhan971/godmode/automate
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.

Any agent
npx skills add arbazkhan971/godmode --skill automate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arbazkhan971/godmode

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install godmode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 132 skills, 1 command, 7 agents, 3 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,611 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 37
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 69
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 76
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 82
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00030 $0.01611
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00161

Measured 9d ago against content hash e81d42e5d722, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automate 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 9d 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.

skills/automate/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Automate -- Task Automation & Workflow Orchestration

Activate When

  • User invokes /godmode:automate
  • User says "automate this", "create a cron job", "set up a webhook"
  • User says "write a Makefile", "create GitHub Action", "schedule this task"
  • Project lacks automation for common tasks (lint, test, build, deploy)

Workflow

Step 1: Discover Context

Detect existing: task runner (Make, Task, Justfile, npm scripts), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), scheduler (crontab, k8s CronJob), scripts.

Step 2: Classify Type

Type Best For Tool
Cron/Schedule Nightly builds, cleanup, reports crontab, k8s CronJob, GH Actions schedule
Event/Webhook Deploy on push, notifications GitHub Actions on:, webhooks
Task Runner Build, test, lint, dev setup Make, Task, Justfile, npm scripts
Script Data processing, migration Bash, Python, Node.js
CI/CD Test on PR, deploy on merge GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

Step 3: Cron Jobs

Format: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week. Every cron script: set -euo pipefail, lock file, logging, failure notification, cleanup trap.

# Validate cron syntax and test scripts
crontab -l
bash -n scripts/my-cron.sh
make ci-test

IF job runtime > 80% of interval: increase interval or optimize. WHEN job fails > 3 times consecutively: alert and disable.

Step 4: Webhooks

Verify signature (HMAC-SHA256). Route by event type. Return 200 within 5 seconds.

Step 5: GitHub Actions

Pin action versions (@v4). Set permissions. Set timeout. Release automation, PR automation, scheduled tasks.

Step 6: Makefile/Taskfile

Targets: help, setup, dev, lint, format, typecheck, test, build, deploy-staging, deploy-production (with confirmation), clean, ci-lint, ci-test, ci-build.

Step 7: Script Template

Every script: set -euo pipefail, logging, --help, --dry-run, --verbose, prerequisites check, main function.

Step 8: Report

AUTOMATION REPORT:
Task: <description> | Type: <cron | webhook | workflow | script>
Trigger: <schedule | event | manual> | Error handling: <present>

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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. 9d ago First seen · 189 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A e81d42e5d722

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automate is a skill published in the GitHub repository arbazkhan971/godmode (26 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,611 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.