operationalize

A method for turning repeated, evidence-backed expertise into a reusable development aid, such as a written reference, automated check, skill, or workflow. It defines when the aid applies and what it should produce.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the same rule or problem appears repeatedly and should be handled consistently. It helps decide the smallest useful form and specify its inputs, outputs, examples, and trigger.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from encoding guesses or one-off preferences as permanent process. It also requires a clear user, decision, observed problem, and removal condition before creating a new artifact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/boshu2/agentops/operationalize
Any agent
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill operationalize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 948 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 $0.00042 $0.00948
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00474
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00095

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1293129b0ca9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operationalize 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 2d 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.

images/gemini/skills/operationalize/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Operationalize

Turn repeated, cited expertise into a proposal for a reusable artifact.

  1. Require cited evidence for the expertise: real occurrences or an explicit authoritative source, subject to the three-instance floor below when the proposal abstracts a rule.
  2. State the triggering situation, desired behavior, inputs, outputs, negative examples, and evidence.
  3. Apply the process-artifact creation gate before choosing a shape. A proposed certificate, ledger, dashboard, matrix, meta-report, readiness review, speculative check, skill, or workflow must name its concrete consumer, the subject or release decision it gates, the observed defect class justifying it, and its deletion condition. Code or process introduced solely to consume the artifact does not qualify. If any answer is missing, propose no artifact and redirect to the caller-requested subject. Minimal integrity or recovery state is allowed only when necessary to prevent a named evidence-loss or corruption mode.
  4. Choose the smallest fitting shape: reference, skill, deterministic check, or caller-owned workflow.
  5. Search existing capabilities and prefer extension over duplication.
  6. Provide an activation example, holdout/negative example, owner, and rollback or deletion condition.
  7. Return the proposal inline to the caller or an authoring specialist. When the caller asks for a durable artifact, write it under .agents/scratch/operationalize/ first and return the path; the proposal is advisory either way.

Three-instance floor

A rule needs three real occurrences before it may be abstracted. Count only occurrences that actually happened and can be cited — sessions, diffs, verdicts, or artifacts that resolve in this repository — not hypothetical cases or restatements of one event. With one or two occurrences, propose a quote-anchored reference note instead and stop short of a rule. An explicit authoritative source may substitute for occurrences only when the proposal transcribes that source rather than generalizing beyond it. The named failure mode is premature abstraction: a rule minted from a single vivid incident that encodes the incident's accidents as policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 2d ago First seen · 93 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 1293129b0ca9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

operationalize is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshu2/agentops (431 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 948 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.

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