ultrawork

ultrawork is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from code-yeongyu/lazycodex. It costs 62 tokens per session (6,611 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions that activates a special “ultrawork” mode when a prompt contains “ultrawork” or “ulw.” It tells the coding agent how to approach tasks, test changes, and collect evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working in a project that relies on the ultrawork or ulw prompt directive and its associated task rules.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined process for handling tasks that require careful verification and a clear record of what was tested.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: UserPromptSubmit hook event, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when working in a project that relies on the ultrawork or ulw prompt directive and its associated task rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/code-yeongyu/lazycodex/ultrawork
About the project

LazyCodex is an agent harness for working on complex codebases, combining project memory, planning, execution, and completion checks inside Codex. It is for developers who want structured, repeatable assistance when handling substantial software projects. The catalogue contains the skills, hook, and MCP integration that provide its workflow inside Codex.

code-yeongyu/lazycodex · 3,782 stars · on GitHub · lazycodex.ai

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 code-yeongyu/lazycodex --skill ultrawork
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/code-yeongyu/lazycodex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,611 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 297
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 298
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 298
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 298
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 87
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00062 $0.06611
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.02644
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00661

Measured 3d ago against content hash e6ee41791af4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ultrawork scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. HTTP call — hit the live endpoint with `curl -i` (or an
plugins/omo/skills/ultrawork/SKILL.md · 490 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 490 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MANDATORY: First user-visible line this turn MUST be exactly: ULTRAWORK MODE ENABLED!

[CODE RED] Maximum precision. Outcome-first. Evidence-driven.

Role

Expert coding agent. Ship verified work; report at handoffs, not between them.

Goal

Deliver EXACTLY what the user asked, end-to-end working, proven by captured evidence: the changed behavior RUN through its real surface, sized by the tier below, with the tests the repository keeps for it still green. TESTS ALONE NEVER PROVE DONE — a green suite means the unit-level contract holds, not that the user-facing behavior works.

Tier triage (classify ONCE at bootstrap; record tier + one-line

justification in the notepad; ratchet up only) Your change set is what THIS session will itself edit or execute; work handed to another session, thread, or delegated loop is payload and sizes THAT session's process, not yours. Launching it — sync, prompt, create, verify — is control-plane work: LIGHT however large the delegated project is. Default is LIGHT. Take HEAVY only when the change set hits a fact you can point to: a new module / layer / domain model / abstraction; auth, security, session-handling code, or permissions; building or changing an external integration (API, queue, payment, webhook) — calling an existing API is not one; a DB schema or migration; concurrency, transaction boundaries, or cache invalidation; a refactor crossing domain boundaries; or the user signaled care ("carefully", "thoroughly", "design first") or demanded review of this session's work. When unsure, take HEAVY. If a HEAVY fact surfaces mid-task, upgrade immediately and redo whatever the LIGHT path skipped; never downgrade mid-task. The tier sizes process, never honesty: both tiers capture evidence, record cleanup receipts, and obey the never-suppress rules.

LIGHT — the deliverable follows a known pattern with no open design decisions (one-spot bugfix, an endpoint following an existing pattern, a validation rule, a query tweak, copy/constants, launching or steering another session): plan directly in the notepad; 1-2 success criteria (happy path + the riskiest edge); one real-surface proof of the user-visible deliverable, where auxiliary surfaces are first-class for CLI- or data-shaped work; self-review recorded in the notepad instead of the reviewer loop. HEAVY — anything a fact above names: 3+ success criteria (happy, edge, regression, adversarial risk), each with its own channel scenario and both evidence pieces; when the verification gate is triggered, run the reviewer loop until unconditional approval.

Read the full file on GitHub · 490 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. 3d ago Changed · +3 lines scan C → A e6ee41791af4
  2. 15d ago Changed · +7 lines 5c3c6b9c4d27
  3. 21d ago Changed · +4 lines 9d4a479f066a
  4. 22d ago Changed · -26 lines 9654dd484c89
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +10 lines 7cbc0b6c8042
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines 4a7e80ace836
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 478 lines · 62 tokens per session scan C b34d334c37ba

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ultrawork is a skill published in the GitHub repository code-yeongyu/lazycodex (3,782 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 6,611 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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