warden-workflow

warden-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from HawkannG/Claude-Warden. It costs 23 tokens per session (2,581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A five-phase development workflow: propose, plan, build, verify, and close, with user-acceptance checks at each stage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide features, fixes, and other changes from an initial request through planning, implementation, testing, and final review.
Why use it?
It prevents coding from starting before the request and acceptance criteria are clear, and ensures the result is checked before the work is closed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-warden plugin — 7 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to guide features, fixes, and other changes from an initial request through planning, implementation, testing, and final review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hawkanng/claude-warden/warden-workflow
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.

Any agent
npx skills add HawkannG/Claude-Warden --skill warden-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HawkannG/Claude-Warden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-warden, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 4 hooks.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,581 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00023 $0.02581
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01290
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00516
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00258

Measured 10d ago against content hash 575cbd766393, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

warden-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 10d 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.

skills/warden-workflow/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development Workflow Protocol

Policy Area: WORK Version: 1.2 Status: Active Enforcement: MUST (per RFC 2119) Purpose: How every feature, fix, and change moves from idea to shipped code with Claude Code. Includes mandatory UAT checkpoints at each phase.


1. The Five Phases

Every unit of work follows five phases. No phase can be skipped.

PROPOSE → PLAN → BUILD → VERIFY → CLOSE

2. Phase 1: PROPOSE

Who leads: Human What happens: Human describes what they want. Claude asks clarifying questions. No code, no files yet.

Claude MUST:

  1. Restate the request in one sentence to confirm understanding
  2. Ask 2-5 clarifying questions about scope, edge cases, and constraints
  3. Identify which governance files are relevant
  4. Flag anything that conflicts with CLAUDE.md constraints or active directives
  5. NOT write any code, NOT create any files

UAT Checkpoint — PROPOSE:

  1. Ask: "Is this user-facing?" If yes:
    • "What are the acceptance criteria? Are there existing test cases in your test management tool?"
    • If no acceptance criteria exist: define them now, in business language, before proceeding
    • Acceptance criteria must include: happy path, at least one edge case, expected error states
    • Write criteria in plain language ("User sees X") not code ("returns 200")

Gate: PROPOSE → PLAN

Human says: "Plan it" or any clear affirmative. For user-facing features, acceptance criteria must exist before this gate opens.

If human says "just do it": Claude responds: "Let me give you a 30-second plan first so we don't build the wrong thing. Here's what I'd do: [quick plan]. Sound good?"


3. Phase 2: PLAN

Who leads: Claude What happens: Claude produces a structured plan. Human reviews and approves.

Claude MUST produce:

## Plan: [Feature/Fix Name]

**Scope:** [One sentence]
**Touches:** [Governance areas affected]
**Acceptance Criteria:** [List from PROPOSE, or reference test case IDs]

### Files to Create
- path/to/file.ts — purpose

### Files to Modify
- path/to/existing.ts — what changes and why

### Files NOT Touched
- [Explicitly list to prevent scope creep]

### Governance Updates Required
- [ ] Which docs need updating and why

### Risks & Decisions
- [Anything needing human input]

### Estimated Scope
- Files: [count] | Complexity: Low / Medium / High

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 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. 10d ago First seen · 289 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 575cbd766393

Subscribe to this mod's changes

warden-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository HawkannG/Claude-Warden (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,581 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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