manage-workspace

manage-workspace is a skill for Claude Code from cogni-work/insight-wave. It costs 169 tokens per session (4,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for creating or updating an insight-wave workspace, the shared folder and configuration area that lets related plugins find one another and share settings. It detects whether the workspace already exists and chooses setup or update mode.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialise, refresh, or sync a workspace and configure its shared environment and plugin registrations.
Why use it?
It gives plugins a common foundation instead of leaving each one with isolated paths and configuration, and checks required command-line tools before setup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the cogni-workspace plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands, 19 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to initialise, refresh, or sync a workspace and configure its shared environment and plugin registrations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add cogni-work/insight-wave
Claude Code
/plugin install cogni-workspace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cogni-workspace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands, 19 agents.

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Per session 169 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,203 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.
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 $0.00169 $0.04203
Opus 5.5 $0.00068 $0.01681
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00841
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00420

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 453f167b9ff5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-workspace 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 1mo 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.

Required: `jq`, `python3`, `bash` 3.2+. If required dependencies are missing, show the user what to install before continuing. Optional dependencies (`curl`, `git`, `bc`) are fine to skip.
cogni-workspace/skills/manage-workspace/SKILL.md · 345 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 345 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manage Workspace

Why This Exists

An insight-wave workspace is the shared foundation that all marketplace plugins depend on. It centralizes environment configuration, theme storage, and plugin registration so that plugins can find each other and share resources. Without a workspace, plugins operate in isolation: they can't resolve each other's paths, and there is no shared place for user-created themes.

This skill handles both initial creation and ongoing updates. It auto-detects which mode to use based on whether a workspace already exists.

Before Starting

Run the dependency checker — it returns JSON, so parse the result and tell the user exactly what's missing:

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-dependencies.sh

Required: jq, python3, bash 3.2+. If required dependencies are missing, show the user what to install before continuing. Optional dependencies (curl, git, bc) are fine to skip.

Detect Mode

Determine the workspace target path:

  1. User-provided path (if they specified one)
  2. $PROJECT_AGENTS_OPS_ROOT environment variable
  3. Current working directory

Check for .workspace-config.json at the target path:

  • Not found → Init mode (section below)
  • Found → Update mode (section further below)

Init Mode

Use this flow when no workspace exists yet at the target path.

1. Discover Plugins

Scan the marketplace cache for installed cogni-* plugins:

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/discover-plugins.sh

The script returns JSON with each plugin's name, version, path, and computed environment variable names. Present the list to the user so they can confirm, add, or remove plugins before proceeding. This matters because the plugin list determines which environment variables get generated — missing a plugin here means it won't be wired up.

2. Gather Preferences

Use AskUserQuestion to collect:

  1. Language — EN or DE. This is written as the language key by step 3, which Claude Code turns into a # Language system-prompt section, so a fresh session responds in the workspace language. Bilingual plugins read the same value as their default.
  2. Plugin confirmation — Show discovered plugins, let the user adjust.
  3. Tool integrations — Obsidian, VS Code, other. This gets stored in the config so tool-specific plugins know what to set up later.

Read the full file on GitHub · 345 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. 1mo ago First seen · 345 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A 453f167b9ff5

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manage-workspace is a skill published in the GitHub repository cogni-work/insight-wave (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 169 tokens to every session and 4,203 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-14.

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