governance-lifecycle

governance-lifecycle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cirwel/unitares. It costs 51 tokens per session (3,888 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to the full UNITARES agent lifecycle, from starting a session through check-ins, state checks, shared-memory searches, result recording, and recovery after a pause or rejection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding an agent, checking in after meaningful work, inspecting its working state, avoiding duplicate work, recording outcomes, or requesting a structured review.
Why use it?
Agents need consistent procedures for identity, progress updates, shared knowledge, and recovery so work remains traceable across sessions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when onboarding an agent, checking in after meaningful work, inspecting its working state, avoiding duplicate work, recording outcomes, or requesting a structured review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cirwel/unitares/governance-lifecycle
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 cirwel/unitares --skill governance-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cirwel/unitares

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,888 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 $0.00051 $0.03888
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01944
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00778
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00389

Measured today against content hash 68d6904d114d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

governance-lifecycle 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 today.

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/governance-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Lifecycle

Last Updated: 2026-09-07

Primary Workflow Names

The core lifecycle should use primary task-verb tools. Each is implemented by a raw tool with the same identity rules and returns a normalized envelope with the operationally useful fields first (next_action, state_summary, risk_summary, memory_suggestions, recovery_hint). State-changing aliases preserve the full payload under raw_governance; read aliases default to a bounded lean/compact shape and explain how to request the full canonical payload. sync_state does not retrieve shared memory unless include_memory_suggestions=true is explicit.

Task Primary workflow tool Raw implementation tool
Start a fresh process identity start_session(force_new=true, ...) onboard
Check in after meaningful work sync_state(response_text=..., complexity=...) process_agent_update
Check your working state check_working_state() get_governance_metrics
Avoid duplicate work search_shared_memory(query=...) knowledge(action="search")
Record what actually happened record_result(...) outcome_event
Ask for a structured review request_review(issue_description=...) dialectic(action="request")
Store a durable finding store_finding(summary=..., discovery_type=...) knowledge(action="store")
Update a durable finding update_finding(discovery_id=..., ...) knowledge(action="update")

Use the primary workflow tools by default. Use raw implementation names only for older servers, compatibility code, or when you explicitly need the unwrapped handler response. start_session(force_new=true) is a process-start operation, not a per-turn continuation primitive. request_review reuses its issue_description as the thesis by default, so a lone review brief is actionable in one call. Pass explicit reasoning/root_cause to distinguish the position from the subject, or use_brief_as_thesis=false for the neutral two-call flow. Raw dialectic(action="request") remains two-call unless thesis fields or use_brief_as_thesis=true are supplied. Session reads carry plain-language whose_move/next_call guidance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. today Changed · +29 lines 68d6904d114d
  2. 8d ago First seen · 233 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 95875ff856d7

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governance-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository cirwel/unitares (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,888 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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