compose-workflow

A recipe builder for chaining several coding-agent skills into one documented workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create YAML workflow recipes, connect skills in order, define arguments and verification rules, and record them in the project plan.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from repeatedly piecing together unusual sequences of skills and forgetting the checks between them.

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/danielvm-git/bigpowers/compose-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill compose-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 803 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 $0.00042 $0.00803
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00080

Measured 2d ago against content hash 82ffbbd98052, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compose-workflow 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 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.

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.

.cline/skills/compose-workflow/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

story: e09s01

story: e45s27

story: e21s04

Compose Workflow

HARD GATEHARD GATE — Workflows are orchestration, not automation. Do NOT create workflows for tasks that should be single skills. Workflow complexity must be justified.

Process

  1. Interview: goal, phases, which skills, gates between steps.
  2. Write specs/workflows/<name>.yaml:
    • name, command, description, skills[], verify
    • Optional: args for skill-specific arguments
  3. Register in state.yaml Active Decisions.
  4. Optional: reference from orchestrate-project Ad-Hoc mode.

Prefer the YAML recipe format over the legacy specs/WORKFLOW-<name>.md markdown format. YAML recipes are command-mappable, machine-readable, and listed in the Standard Recipe Library.

Terminal-state taxonomy (e45s27)

Every workflow step and /loop tick MUST exit with exactly one terminal state:

State Meaning Next action
success Step verify passed; artifacts written Advance to next skill in recipe
no-op Nothing to do (already green / already applied) Skip step; advance
blocked External gate (approval, red CI, missing dep) diagnose-stall or escalate to user
exhausted Max iterations/cycles reached (review cap, dispatch cycles) Stop; human decision required

Record terminal state in specs/state.yaml handoff.last_terminal_state when a recipe step completes. /loop ticks that produce no progress for two consecutive wakes → invoke diagnose-stall.

Standard Recipe Library

Pre-built recipes in specs/workflows/ map agentic stack commands to skill chains. Reference them in AGENTS.md so /command directly invokes the matching recipe.

Command Workflow Skill chain
/check-stack check-stack survey-context → assess-impact → setup-environment
/ship ship audit-code → commit-message → release-branch
/tdd tdd develop-tdd → enforce-first
/code-review code-review audit-code → request-review → respond-review
/security security audit-code → request-review
/plan plan survey-context → research-first → plan-work
/build-fix build-fix investigate-bug → diagnose-root → develop-tdd → validate-fix
/e2e e2e smoke-test → verify-work

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 82ffbbd98052

Subscribe to this mod's changes

compose-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (156 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 803 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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