wflow

A second-brain skill that connects Workflowy, an outlining and note-taking service, with other configured services for capturing, organising, finding, and combining information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan days, capture tasks or links, triage priorities, create concise notes, and retrieve related information.
Why use it?
It gives scattered tasks, links, notes, and reading material a shared process for collection and review.

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/dromologue/workflowymcp/wflow
Any agent
npx skills add dromologue/workflowyMCP --skill wflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dromologue/workflowyMCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 20,644 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 $0.00095 $0.20644
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.10322
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.04129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.02064

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4f6898605b50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wflow 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.

templates/skills/wflow/SKILL.md · 756 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 756 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

wflow — second-brain skill (template)

This is the generic skill template shipped by the workflowy-mcp-server repo. It deliberately contains no user-specific node IDs — those live in $SECONDBRAIN_DIR/memory/workflowy_node_links.md. On first use, walk the user through populating that file (see Bootstrap below).

The skill spans the full second-brain loop:

  1. Capture — tasks, links, ink, reading material.
  2. Triage and prioritisation — daily / weekly / monthly cascade.
  3. Synthesis — distillation of reading and conversation into atomic notes.
  4. Retrieval — graph queries across Workflowy and any additional services the user has configured.

It is invoked conversationally — the user does not need to type slash commands. Match by intent, not by exact wording.

Which surface am I on

Up to four MCP surfaces can reach the same Workflowy account: this server over stdio on the user's machine (mcp__workflowy__*), the WorkFlowy CLI (mcp__workflowy-cli__*, if wf is installed and wired in), WorkFlowy's own desktop MCP inside the desktop app (mcp__workflowy-desktop__*), and — if the user has deployed one — a remote connector for claude.ai web/mobile and cloud sandboxes, which is this same server behind an HTTP shim. Decide by device first, then by capability.

Decide in one line. On the user's machine, route reads, searches and ordinary writes to a native surface (the CLI, or the desktop MCP when the app is running) and come to this server for method work — mirror discipline, review, anything touching $SECONDBRAIN_DIR, anything scheduled. Never use a remote connector from a machine that can reach this server: they share one Workflowy account and therefore one API rate limit, so local traffic routed remotely burns the quota the mobile and cloud surfaces depend on. If a native surface is unavailable, fall back to this server automatically; never fall outward to the connector.

Native first for lookups and ordinary writes (changed 2026-08-17). Earlier versions of this skill said to prefer this server unless the task needed attachments or client navigation. That is now wrong, and following it wastes API quota on work a native surface does better and for free.

Read the full file on GitHub · 756 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. 2d ago First seen · 756 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 4f6898605b50

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository dromologue/workflowyMCP (10 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 20,644 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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