design-agent-automation-workflow

design-agent-automation-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,571 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning framework for designing agent or automation workflows before building them. It compares options such as scheduled automations, command-line runs, subagents, and application services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan the smallest useful automation, decide whether it can run automatically, and prepare a design for implementation in a chosen framework.
Why use it?
It helps select an appropriate workflow shape and set boundaries for state, permissions, retries, validation, rollback, and human escalation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-engineering-skills plugin — 7 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/gaelic-ghost/socket/design-agent-automation-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill design-agent-automation-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-engineering-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,571 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 $0.00089 $0.01571
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00157

Measured 4d ago against content hash f3e3afe65677, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-agent-automation-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 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/agent-engineering-skills/skills/design-agent-automation-workflow/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Agent Automation Workflow

Design agent and automation workflows before implementation.

This skill is a framework-neutral planning surface. It helps choose the smallest defensible automation shape, name the safety and state boundaries, decide whether the task is fit for full automation or needs exact escalation gates, and produce a scaffold another stack-owned skill or implementation pass can use.

Inputs

  • Required: the automation goal or workflow idea
  • Useful: target repository, cadence, write surface, expected outputs, full-auto eligibility, escalation points, state needs, retry needs, observability needs, and preferred runtime constraints
  • Optional: known framework preference, deployment target, language stack, or existing scheduler/service

Workflow

  1. Restate the intended real-world outcome and the smallest useful first run.
  2. Decide whether automation is appropriate yet. Prefer safe full automation when bounded scope, validation, rollback or draft behavior, and side-effect controls make it reasonably reliable. Use human review only for the exact decision that cannot be made safe through narrower scope, deterministic checks, retries, rollback, sandboxing, or an orchestration layer.
  3. Classify the best-fit surface:
    • Codex app automation
    • codex exec or Codex GitHub Action
    • Codex subagent fan-out
    • OpenAI Agents SDK service
    • LangGraph graph
    • Hermes-specific workflow
    • full-auto execution
    • auto-with-escalation
    • no automation yet
  4. Name the practical reason for the choice: schedule, isolation, state, approvals, retries, observability, deployment, or integration with an existing runtime.
  5. Identify ownership:
    • prefer existing agent skills, plugins, scripts, and official workflow surfaces before adding new automation code, so business process knowledge has one maintained source of truth
    • prompt or skill-only work stays in this planning skill
    • Python implementation belongs in python-skills
    • web or TypeScript implementation belongs in the Build Web Apps plugin or the repo's owning JavaScript/TypeScript workflow
    • Swift or Apple-platform implementation belongs in Apple/Swift-owned skills
    • Hermes-specific work belongs in Hermes docs or a Hermes-owned skill if one exists later
  6. When the request compares agent frameworks or local-first agent development, use references/local-agent-frameworks.md to separate the orchestration framework from the inference server, model capability, document/RAG, and integration choices. Keep the recommendation tied to a concrete workflow; do not recommend a framework merely because it is popular.
  7. Produce a scaffold with the chosen surface, guardrails, validation plan, output contract, and next implementation handoff.
  8. Link official docs for every framework or runtime named in the recommendation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 4d ago First seen · 146 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A f3e3afe65677

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design-agent-automation-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,571 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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