process-mapper

A method for drawing a business process from start to finish in a standard flowchart style. It also measures how long each stage takes and separates active work from waiting or approval time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document procurement, onboarding, incident handoffs, expense claims, customer onboarding, or similar internal processes, and to identify their main bottleneck.
Why use it?
It makes undocumented processes easier to understand and shows where delays actually occur. This helps teams focus on the stage limiting the whole process instead of optimizing unrelated work.

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/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/process-mapper
Any agent
npx skills add cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill process-mapper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,071 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 $0.00176 $0.02071
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01035
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00207

Measured 2d ago against content hash 49b397394fcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

process-mapper 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/bottleneck_detector.py, scripts/cycle_time_analyzer.py, scripts/process_documenter.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.

skills/business-operations/community/process-mapper/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

process-mapper

BPMN-style business process documentation, bottleneck detection, and cycle-time analysis for internal-operations leaders.

Purpose

Internal-operations work suffers from three recurring failure modes:

  1. Implicit process — the steps exist only in tribal knowledge, so handoffs drop and onboarding takes weeks.
  2. Invisible waiting — most of the elapsed time on any business process is queue / wait / approval time, not actual work; teams optimize the wrong stage.
  3. Local optimization — Goldratt's Theory of Constraints is ignored; resources are added to non-constraint stages, gaining nothing.

This skill produces a documented process map, identifies where work waits, and points the constraint out by name with deterministic logic — not LLM intuition.

When to use

  • Documenting a new business process (procurement intake, vendor onboarding, employee onboarding, incident handoff, expense reimbursement, customer onboarding, claims adjudication).
  • An existing process is "too slow" but nobody can name the bottleneck.
  • Cycle time is being measured but value-add ratio is not — so the team can't tell whether the process is healthy or waste-heavy.
  • Cross-functional handoffs are dropping work and root cause is unclear.

Workflow

Five-step deterministic flow:

  1. Intake. Capture the process as a JSON file with one entry per stage: name, owner, type (value-add | wait | rework), duration_minutes_p50, duration_minutes_p90. Use assets/process_template.md and its JSON skeleton.
  2. Map stages. Run process_documenter.py to produce an ASCII swim-lane diagram + a normalized JSON artifact. The swim-lane separates lanes by owner so cross-functional handoffs become visible.
  3. Measure cycle time. Run cycle_time_analyzer.py to compute total P50, total P90, value-add ratio (VA%), and a Little's-Law throughput estimate. Verdict: VA% > 25% = HEALTHY, 10–25% = TYPICAL, < 10% = WASTE-HEAVY.
  4. Detect bottlenecks. Run bottleneck_detector.py with the appropriate --profile (saas / services / manufacturing / healthcare). Output is a ranked list with severity (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM), root-cause hypothesis, and one recommended action per finding.
  5. Recommend. Pair the bottleneck list with the cycle-time verdict; recommend a single constraint-focused intervention per Goldratt's "subordinate everything to the constraint" rule. Don't recommend optimization of a non-constraint stage.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 2d ago First seen · 107 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 49b397394fcd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

process-mapper is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 2,071 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens

agent-host-chat-contributions

Build and review cross-cutting agent-host chat behavior through lifecycle contributions. Use when adding turn lifecycle side effects, prompt or context injection, restored-history transformation, protocol-action observation, or when reviewing changes that add code to AgentSideEffects or AgentService.

microsoft/vscode · 56 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens