ways-of-working

ways-of-working is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from devantler-tech/agent-plugins. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,922 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of software-development working practices covering structured issues, planning, test-driven development, CI/CD, GitHub Flow, code-quality checks, and Kubernetes workflows. Test-driven development means writing a test before the code; CI/CD automates checking and delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to file and plan work, write tests first, configure automated checks and deployments, follow branch workflows, debug problems, and manage Kubernetes projects with ksail.
Why use it?
It gives teams and coding agents a consistent path from a requested change to tested, reviewable code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the engineering-practices plugin — 5 skills shipped together

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/devantler-tech/agent-plugins/ways-of-working
Any agent
npx skills add devantler-tech/agent-plugins --skill ways-of-working
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devantler-tech/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install engineering-practices, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ways-of-working

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,922 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 $0.00065 $0.01922
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00961
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00192

Measured 4d ago against content hash 012169673802, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ways-of-working 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 4d 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.

plugins/engineering-practices/skills/ways-of-working/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ways of Working

Development Workflow

Development is agent-first — every change starts as a structured issue and flows through issue → plan → implement → test → review:

  1. Create an issue using the devantler-tech/.github issue templates:
    • Feature — user story with acceptance criteria.
    • Bug — expected vs actual behavior with reproduction steps.
    • Chore — user story with acceptance criteria for general tasks.
    • Kata — Improvement Kata for continuous improvement (problem → definition of awesome → target condition → actions).
  2. Plan — create a structured implementation plan from the issue before writing code.
  3. Implement — execute the plan following the practices in this skill (TDD, quality gates, GitHub Flow, CI/CD).
  4. Manual test — validate behavior hands-on before merging. Focus on UX: output must be well-presented and every piece of feedback (errors, warnings, prompts) must be actionable.
  5. Code review (optional) — CI's strict linting, scanning, and quality gates are the primary feedback loop, so manual review is not always required.

Testing

Follow the test-driven-development skill rigorously — write the test first, watch it fail, write minimal code to pass.

Application / Library Repositories

Type Tooling When to run
Linting Linters and linting runners (e.g. golangci-lint, eslint, MegaLinter) CI on every PR
Scanning Security & quality scanners (e.g. CodeQL, Trivy, SonarQube) CI on every PR
Unit tests SDK test frameworks (e.g. go test, xunit, jest) CI on every PR
Integration tests SDK test frameworks CI on every PR
E2E / system tests GitHub Actions workflows that exercise the app/binary/service as an end user would CI on every PR; move to merge_group if the suite becomes too heavy
Benchmark tests SDK benchmark frameworks (e.g. BenchmarkDotNet, go test -bench) CI on every PR

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 4d ago First seen · 130 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 012169673802

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ways-of-working is a skill published in the GitHub repository devantler-tech/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,922 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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