setup-cowork

setup-cowork is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,615 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A guided setup process for Cowork, a tool that can handle multi-step tasks using your connected tools. It covers your role, plugins, connectors, skills, and writing style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select relevant plugins and connectors, try a skill, and create a writing-style profile for future drafts.
Why use it?
It helps configure Cowork for your work without requiring you to know which add-ons or connections to choose first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to select relevant plugins and connectors, try a skill, and create a writing-style profile for future drafts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/setup-cowork
About the project

System Prompts Leaks is a collection of captured system instructions used to guide AI chatbots and coding agents before they receive user messages. It serves researchers and developers studying how different AI assistants are directed.

asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks · 64,893 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.

Any agent
npx skills add asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks --skill setup-cowork
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,615 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. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review Third-party audits
  • Snyk warn 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00000 $0.02615
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01307
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00262

Measured 13d ago against content hash d30de36cb122, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-cowork 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 13d 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.

Anthropic/claude-cowork/setup-cowork/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Cowork

Help the user get Cowork configured for their work. Six steps — role, plugins, connectors, try a skill, writing voice, wrap.

Step 0 — Checklist

Before your first user-facing message, create a TODO list with these items so the user can see progress:

  1. Figure out role
  2. Suggest plugins
  3. Suggest connectors
  4. Try a skill
  5. Set up writing voice
  6. Wrap up

Mark each one complete as you finish it. Keep it to these six — don't add sub-items.

Step 1 — Role

Your initial message should frame what Cowork is: it autonomously handles tasks like reading your email, searching your docs, drafting reports, etc. Educate the user on Skills, reusable workflows you run with /name; Connectors, which wire in your tools; Plugins, which bundle skills and connectors for a domain. Two or three sentences. Hit the beats: multi-step and autonomous, uses your real tools, skills/plugins/connectors defined.

Next, ask the user for their role. Something like: "Let's get you set up — takes a few minutes. What kind of work do you do?" Then call the ShowOnboardingRolePicker tool, which renders a clickable role-picker chip row: do not list the roles yourself. The tool result is their answer — {"role": ...} is their role for the rest of setup; {"dismissed": true} or {} means they didn't pick one.

If the ShowOnboardingRolePicker tool is not available in this session, ask in plain text instead and offer these options as a short list they can reply to (they can also answer in their own words):

  • Product management
  • Engineering
  • Human resources
  • Finance
  • Marketing
  • Sales
  • Operations
  • Data science
  • Design
  • Scientist
  • Legal
  • Student
  • Founder
  • Healthcare

In the plain-text case, end your turn after asking. Their reply — one of the options or a free-form answer — is their role for the rest of setup.

Step 2 — Suggest plugins

The role picker tool result will contain their selection. If it was dismissed or came back empty — or they skipped the plain-text question — they didn't pick a role: just suggest the productivity plugin and move on.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 13d ago First seen · 114 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d30de36cb122

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setup-cowork is a skill published in the GitHub repository asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks (64,893 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,615 tokens. 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.