agent-workflow-designer

agent-workflow-designer is a skill for Codex from bestagentkits/agency-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design toolkit for multi-step systems where several AI agents work in sequence, in parallel, or in levels of responsibility. It covers handoffs, failures, retries, and limits on context and cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a workflow pattern, generate a starter configuration, and plan validation or retry behavior for production systems.
Why use it?
It turns a complex agent task into a defined workflow with clearer boundaries and recovery steps.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to choose a workflow pattern, generate a starter configuration, and plan validation or retry behavior for production systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/agent-workflow-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bestagentkits/agency-skills --skill agent-workflow-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bestagentkits/agency-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 543 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 $0.00073 $0.00543
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00054

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0180d0d07094, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-workflow-designer 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/workflow_scaffolder.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/claude-skills/agent-workflow-designer/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Workflow Designer

Tier: POWERFUL
Category: Engineering
Domain: Multi-Agent Systems / AI Orchestration


Overview

Design production-grade multi-agent workflows with clear pattern choice, handoff contracts, failure handling, and cost/context controls.

Core Capabilities

  • Workflow pattern selection for multi-step agent systems
  • Skeleton config generation for fast workflow bootstrapping
  • Context and cost discipline across long-running flows
  • Error recovery and retry strategy scaffolding
  • Documentation pointers for operational pattern tradeoffs

When to Use

  • A single prompt is insufficient for task complexity
  • You need specialist agents with explicit boundaries
  • You want deterministic workflow structure before implementation
  • You need validation loops for quality or safety gates

Quick Start

# Generate a sequential workflow skeleton
python3 scripts/workflow_scaffolder.py sequential --name content-pipeline

# Generate an orchestrator workflow and save it
python3 scripts/workflow_scaffolder.py orchestrator --name incident-triage --output workflows/incident-triage.json

Pattern Map

  • sequential: strict step-by-step dependency chain
  • parallel: fan-out/fan-in for independent subtasks
  • router: dispatch by intent/type with fallback
  • orchestrator: planner coordinates specialists with dependencies
  • evaluator: generator + quality gate loop

Detailed templates: references/workflow-patterns.md


  1. Select pattern based on dependency shape and risk profile.
  2. Scaffold config via scripts/workflow_scaffolder.py.
  3. Define handoff contract fields for every edge.
  4. Add retry/timeouts and output validation gates.
  5. Dry-run with small context budgets before scaling.

Common Pitfalls

  • Over-orchestrating tasks solvable by one well-structured prompt
  • Missing timeout/retry policies for external-model calls
  • Passing full upstream context instead of targeted artifacts
  • Ignoring per-step cost accumulation

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 84 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 0180d0d07094

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agent-workflow-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestagentkits/agency-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 543 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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