work-discipline

work-discipline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Arlenjim/claude-code-for-non-coders. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,487 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general method for carrying out tasks with multiple steps or possible outcomes. It requires breaking the work down, separating facts from assumptions, and defining observable success checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and execute non-trivial coding or project tasks. It helps state the goal, record assumptions, choose the next step from evidence, and verify what changed.
Why use it?
It reduces shortcuts, unsupported conclusions, and accidental changes outside the request. Each decision is tied to something that was checked or observed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to plan and execute non-trivial coding or project tasks. It helps state the goal, record assumptions, choose the next step from evidence, and verify what changed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arlenjim/claude-code-for-non-coders/work-discipline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Arlenjim/claude-code-for-non-coders --skill work-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Arlenjim/claude-code-for-non-coders

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,487 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 $0.00041 $0.01487
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00744
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00149

Measured 9d ago against content hash dede99baae0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-discipline 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/work-discipline/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work discipline

Apply what follows to any non-trivial task. A task is non-trivial as soon as it has more than one step, more than one possible outcome, or touches something you haven't read yet.

1. Decompose before starting

Restate the request as a verifiable goal. Before touching anything, write in one sentence what will be true when the task is done — something observable, not an intention. "Improve error handling" is not verifiable; "an invalid input produces an explicit message instead of a crash" is. If you can't write that sentence, you haven't understood the request: ask the question now, not mid-work.

Separate the known from the assumed. Explicitly list:

  • what you know because you read it or observed it;
  • what you assume.

Every assumption must either be verified before writing code that depends on it, or flagged as a risk. An assumption that a 10-second command could verify has no right to remain an assumption.

Write the success criteria BEFORE starting. Two or three concrete points: what observable behavior, what checks must pass, what must NOT have changed. Written after the fact, criteria always bend to what you produced — that is exactly why you write them first.

Order the steps by what they teach you. Start with the step that can invalidate the whole plan: the riskiest unknown, the dependency you're not sure of, the API whose behavior you're assuming. Discovering a wall at step 1 costs an hour; discovering it at step 8 costs the plan.

Read before you edit. Never modify a file whose relevant part you haven't read in full. Read the entry points too: who calls what you're about to change, who depends on the current behavior.

Size the plan to the task. A one-line fix doesn't deserve an eight-step plan. But even the smallest task keeps the core: a verifiable goal, reading before editing, proof before conclusion.

2. Verify before saying "done"

Your work is not done when the code is written. It is done when you have tried to prove it wrong and failed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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 · 73 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A dede99baae0a

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work-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository Arlenjim/claude-code-for-non-coders (10 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,487 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 2026-08-31.