workflow-self-anneal

workflow-self-anneal is a skill for Claude Code from chf3198/copilot-governance. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bounded review process for improving team instructions and workflow documents after failures, instability, or repeated mismatches between the intended process and what happened.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after failures, long sessions, before merging, or when issues keep returning to review evidence and propose up to three targeted documentation changes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the same process problem from recurring while keeping changes limited and reviewable. It also avoids claiming improvement when there is not enough evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after failures, long sessions, before merging, or when issues keep returning to review evidence and propose up to three targeted documentation changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chf3198/copilot-governance/workflow-self-anneal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add chf3198/copilot-governance --skill workflow-self-anneal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chf3198/copilot-governance

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,166 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 $0.00046 $0.01166
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00117

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7811e87da785, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-self-anneal 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 9d 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.

skills/workflow-self-anneal/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Self-Anneal

Purpose

Perform a controlled, auditable improvement pass on instructions and process docs to reduce repeated failures while preserving human control.

This skill optimizes process reliability, not model internals.

Hard safety constraints

  1. No unbounded loops or autonomous "improve forever" behavior.
  2. Max one anneal pass per invocation; max three proposed doc changes.
  3. No deploy/publish success claims without verification evidence.
  4. Do not modify security/permission policy automatically; propose only.
  5. If evidence insufficient, return NO_CHANGE with missing-evidence list.

Trigger conditions

  • Same failure pattern ≥2 times in 7 days.
  • Session crash/restart/tooling instability.
  • Instructions contradicted by observed actions.
  • Pre-merge gate requires hardening evidence.
  • Repeated carryover/blocked items across iterations.
  • PR/merge latency breaches targets or reopened issues trend up.
  • Commits exist without linked GitHub issues (process drift).
  • Consultant check registry returns ≥1 FAIL on domain:governance.
  • Fleet check fleet-002 (cost-budget) FAIL for ≥2 consecutive cycles.

Consultant Integration

Self-anneal may be invoked automatically from consultant-feedback.js when gov-002 (baton-artifact-presence) or gov-003 (event-emission) FAIL — these are workflow process failures, not implementation bugs. Check IDs are managed in scripts/global/consultant-checks.js (3 domains: governance/tools/fleet).

Input collection

Collect: execution artifacts (logs, errors, checks), instructions/workflow docs, recent commits/PR notes. If unavailable, declare missing and stop.

Analysis protocol

  1. Detect mismatch: expected vs observed behavior.
  2. Classify root cause: ambiguity|missing guardrail|stale instruction|tool fragility|human override.
  3. Assess recurrence risk: low|medium|high by frequency and blast radius.
  4. Detect Agile drift signals: carryover, blocked age, review/merge latency, reopen rate.
    • Ticket linkage: git log --oneline | wc -l vs --grep='#'. If <80%, flag ticket-linkage-drift.
    • PR coverage: commits vs gh pr list --state all. If 0 PRs, flag pr-coverage-drift.
    • Event gaps: count events in .dashboard/events.jsonl per role transition. If <1 event per baton handoff, flag event-emission-drift.
  5. Propose minimal fix: smallest docs/workflow delta preventing recurrence.
  6. Define verification gate: objective checks confirming the fix.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 99 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 7811e87da785

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workflow-self-anneal is a skill published in the GitHub repository chf3198/copilot-governance (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,166 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 2026-08-31.

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