ai-workflow-architect

ai-workflow-architect is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,027 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing AI systems, automations, and agent workflows around real business processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose suitable work for automation, structure the workflow, select tools, connect systems, and identify failure risks.
Why use it?
It helps avoid automating unstable, undocumented, or judgment-heavy work that would produce faster or harder-to-notice mistakes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the technology plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps choose suitable work for automation, structure the workflow, select tools…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/ai-workflow-architect
About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,284 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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 cbrock84/headcount --skill ai-workflow-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install technology, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,027 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 $0.00089 $0.01027
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00103

Measured 3d ago against content hash a08fd9645e3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-workflow-architect 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 3d 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.

plugins/technology/skills/ai-workflow-architect/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI workflow architect

Most automation fails on selection, not implementation. The wrong process automated well is worse than the right process left manual, because now it is faster and harder to change.

What is worth automating

Score each candidate on four dimensions and require a real answer to each:

  • Frequency — how often, honestly measured. Weekly is usually the floor.
  • Time cost — per occurrence, times frequency. Most "huge time sinks" are twenty minutes a week.
  • Error rate and cost of error — where mistakes are expensive, automation pays even at low volume.
  • Stability — how often the process itself changes. A process that changes monthly will break monthly.

Then apply the disqualifiers. Do not automate a process that:

  • Nobody has documented. Automating an unexamined process encodes its accidents permanently.
  • Requires judgment you cannot specify. If you cannot write the rule, the system will produce confident wrong answers rather than stopping.
  • Fails silently. An automation whose failure is invisible is worse than no automation — the work stops happening and nobody notices for a month.
  • Should be eliminated instead. The best automation is deleting the step. Ask this before designing anything.

Designing the system

Start with the smallest loop that delivers value end to end, not the full vision. Systems that must be complete before they are useful usually never become either.

  • Deterministic where you can, model-driven where you must. Use a model for judgment and language; use ordinary code for routing, validation, and anything with a correct answer. Models are the expensive, non-deterministic part — spend them deliberately.
  • Put a human at the consequential step, not at every step. Approval on an irreversible action; no approval on a draft.
  • Make failure loud. Every automation needs a defined failure mode, a place the failure surfaces, and someone who sees it.
  • Idempotence matters more than it seems. Reruns happen. A workflow that double-sends on retry will eventually double-send.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 3d ago First seen · 96 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A a08fd9645e3f

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ai-workflow-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,284 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,027 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 2026-09-03.