workspace-conventions

workspace-conventions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cacheplane/dawnai. It costs 17 tokens per session (212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Workspace rules describing how four file and shell tools work inside a restricted workspace folder. They explain relative paths and the limits of the path permission system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when listing files, reading or writing files, or running shell commands in the workspace. They also explain how to correct an outside-workspace path error.
Why use it?
They prevent common file-access errors, such as using an absolute path or trying to read outside the allowed workspace.

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/cacheplane/dawnai/workspace-conventions
Any agent
npx skills add cacheplane/dawnai --skill workspace-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cacheplane/dawnai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 212 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 $0.00017 $0.00212
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00106
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00021

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1bf788d3d0ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workspace-conventions 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 4d 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.

examples/chat/server/src/app/chat/skills/workspace-conventions/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Workspace conventions

The four workspace tools (listDir, readFile, writeFile, runBash) all operate inside <example>/workspace/. Reads and writes outside that directory are rejected by the path-jail with a clear error.

  • All paths are relative to the workspace root.
  • listDir({ path: "." }) lists the workspace root.
  • readFile({ path: "AGENTS.md" }) reads the memory file you also see in your system prompt (so reading it again is redundant; prefer the version Dawn injected for you).
  • runBash spawns inside the workspace with a hard timeout. Use it for one-shot shell tasks; don't try to start long-lived background processes.

If you get a "Path is outside workspace" error, the path needs to be relative to the workspace root and must not contain .. segments.

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. 4d ago First seen · 21 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 1bf788d3d0ab

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workspace-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository cacheplane/dawnai (327 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 212 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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