protocol

protocol is a skill for Claude Code from Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting workflow for new coding tasks that sorts the request, selects a specialist process, and records substantial work. It can route work through coding agents and project records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of a task to classify the work, check repository guidance, create planning context, and choose how agents should proceed.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of starting implementation before deciding what kind of investigation, planning, or specialist help the task needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Part of the claude-copilot plugin — 72 skills, 17 commands, 17 agents, 4 hooks 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/everyone-needs-a-copilot/claude-copilot/protocol
Any agent
npx skills add Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot --skill protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-copilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 72 skills, 17 commands, 17 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,352 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 5.1 $0.00056 $0.01352
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00676
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00135

Measured today against content hash 5df0b6ea857c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

protocol 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 today.

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/codex-copilot/skills/protocol/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Protocol

$protocol is the primary Codex Copilot entrypoint for new work.

Use it at the start of a task to decide how the work should proceed.

Purpose

It should behave like the Claude Copilot /protocol command in intent:

  • classify the request
  • choose the correct specialist workflow
  • require the right kind of thinking before implementation
  • route the work through the correct agents

In Codex, that means:

  • invoke specialist skills in the main session by default
  • use spawn_agent only when the user explicitly asks for subagents or parallel execution
  • use tc as the durable record for substantial work

Repository Decision Instruments

Before routing substantial work, check whether the repository defines its own decision instruments:

  • If a root SOUL.md exists, read it before substantial product-facing work. Use it to decide whether the product direction should be built, reshaped, or rejected before specialist routing continues.
  • If docs/01-architecture/12-architecture-guiding-principles.md exists, read it before durable technical, architecture, migration, data, security, performance, AI pipeline, or productized implementation work. Use it as the technical decision lens.

Keep these instruments separate:

  • SOUL.md answers whether the product direction fits the product's purpose, taste, anti-patterns, and quality bar.
  • architecture principles answer how accepted product direction should be built safely, scalably, efficiently, and securely.

Request Classification

Request type Signals Workflow
defect broken behavior, regression, failing tests, bug fix bug
technical architecture, refactor, backend, migration, optimization technical_feature
experience user-facing feature, workflow, screen, UI, UX experience_feature
physical-digital hardware, connected product, tangible service touchpoint, physical object plus software physical_digital_feature
UI polish visual refinement, component styling, layout polish ui_polish
security-sensitive auth, permissions, secrets, trust boundaries security_sensitive
infrastructure CI, deploy, environment, observability, worktrees, release automation infrastructure
ambiguous improve, update, change, enhance without clear direction ask for clarification before routing

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. today First seen · 138 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 5df0b6ea857c

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protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,352 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 2026-09-04.

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