dev-flow

A development workflow that classifies coding tasks by size and sets rules for starting work, branching, session handling, and agent dispatch. It covers new features, quick fixes, hotfixes, and resumed work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting feature work, bug fixes, hotfixes, or continued work from an earlier session, including choosing a task path and preparing the development session.
Why use it?
It gives different kinds of coding work an explicit starting process, so the agent can apply the right checks and route the task appropriately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/cookys/autopilot/dev-flow
Any agent
npx skills add cookys/autopilot --skill dev-flow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookys/autopilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,111 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00133 $0.09111
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.04555
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01822
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00911

Measured 2d ago against content hash 972390e5b0d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dev-flow scanned grade B 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 2d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

!`cat .claude/dev-flow-config.md 2>/dev/null || true`
Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to dev-flow — 44 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

platforms/codex/plugin/skills/dev-flow/SKILL.md · 750 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 750 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex lifecycle adapter (normative override)

This section overrides any later host-specific lifecycle or dispatch spelling in the canonical skill body. Resolve <plugin-root> as the installed Autopilot plugin directory that contains this skill.

When using the packaged managed CLI, enter through the existing explicit marker command:

node "<plugin-root>/scripts/session-mode.js" set --level <l3|l4|l5|l6> --entry-level <requested-level> --repo-root <git-root>

The production Codex package currently registers only its PostCompact recovery hook. It does not ship a Codex-thread-bound PreToolUse direct-mutation gate, and this shell command must not be described as receiving or exporting a CODEX_THREAD_ID binding. The marker is an explicit CLI/Engine admission artifact; it is not a production hook admission proof. A marker from another explicitly bound session is not reusable when the managed CLI validates it.

Continue only when the emitted marker contains mission_routing.status: "READY", admitted: true, and would_block: false. Managed implementation then follows the existing Mission admission, sealed campaign, and AUTOPILOT_LEVEL=<level> node "<plugin-root>/bin/autopilot.js" engine implement-review ... route. Repairs attach to and resume that same engine/campaign lineage. A Codex implementer launched inside that route receives a credentials-only isolated CODEX_HOME, never the controller plugin or configuration.

Codex in this package does not provide TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskStop, native Agent, or subagent_type. Do not imitate them with Markdown tickets, inline managed implementation, a new branch/session, or a replacement graph. If an exact mapping is unavailable, stop with the existing precondition or abort receipt; do not invent another lifecycle authority.

Development Flow Evaluation

Project Config (auto-injected)

!cat .claude/dev-flow-config.md 2>/dev/null || true

Read the full file on GitHub · 750 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 750 lines · 133 tokens per session scan B 972390e5b0d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookys/autopilot (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 9,111 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). It is 94% identical to dev-flow, differing in 44 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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