Nerve Workspace Config

Nerve Workspace Config is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ClickHouse/nerve. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,995 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for changing the workspace's own settings, scheduled jobs, source lists, skills, and standing instruction files. It first determines whether the workspace is shared and requires review or is local and can be edited directly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding, editing, or removing workspace configuration, cron jobs, skills, sources, or instruction files, including changes to a shared configuration repository.
Why use it?
It prevents configuration changes from being made through the wrong route in a shared or locked workspace. It explains when a proposed change must go through a pull request.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Nerve is a self-hosted runtime for AI agents built around the Claude Agent SDK, providing persistent memory, scheduled execution, task management, skills, and communication channels. It supports personal assistants for individuals and autonomous workers for tasks such as CI monitoring, pull request review, and flaky-test fixes. The catalogue skills extend its agent workflows.

ClickHouse/nerve · 78 stars · on GitHub

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/clickhouse/nerve/nerve-workspace
Any agent
npx skills add ClickHouse/nerve --skill nerve-workspace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ClickHouse/nerve

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,995 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 $0.00117 $0.01995
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00997
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00199

Measured 5d ago against content hash 56499ced8f58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Nerve Workspace Config 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 5d 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.

nerve/templates/skills/nerve-workspace/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing Your Own Configuration

Your configuration lives in the workspace. It contains:

  • config/settings.yaml — shareable settings
  • config/cron/jobs.yaml, config/cron/system.yaml, config/cron/gates/ — cron
  • skills/<id>/SKILL.md — skills
  • SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, USER.md, AGENTS.md, TOOLS.md — your standing instructions

This is not the Nerve application source code (that's the nerve-dev skill).

First: is this workspace shared?

The answer decides how you change config, so establish it before you start.

The workspace may be a git repository synced from a shared remote (a config repo), in which case config is something a human reviews and merges, and your job is to propose rather than to edit. It may equally be a plain local directory that belongs to this instance alone — that is what an ordinary install looks like.

  • Locked instance (lockdown / remote-only) — a PR is the only thing that works. Direct edits to tracked config are blocked, and would be overwritten by the next sync even if they weren't.
  • Workspace has a remote, not locked — route every change to the reviewed surface through propose_config_change, even though nothing forces you to. A direct write leaves the workspace diverged from the reviewed revision, and sync refuses to merge while anything in that surface — config/, skills/, and the root instruction files — has uncommitted local state (untracked, modified, staged or deleted). So the edit also stops every later config change from reaching this instance until someone commits or drops it. propose_config_change stages in an isolated worktree, so it leaves the live workspace clean — only a direct write dirties it. That covers every route that writes those files, not just an editor: skill_create and skill_update, the POST/PUT/DELETE /api/skills endpoints, and a shell command.
  • No remote, not locked — there is nothing to open a PR against and no review to route through. Edit the files directly and tell the user what you changed. propose_config_change will refuse, and it is right to.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 5d ago First seen · 169 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 56499ced8f58

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Nerve Workspace Config is a skill published in the GitHub repository ClickHouse/nerve (78 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,995 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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