workflow-authoring

workflow-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hesreallyhim/ultracode-workflows. It costs 92 tokens per session (3,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for designing, writing, reviewing, and improving reusable Claude Code Workflow scripts. It uses existing workflow patterns to help choose how agents should cooperate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn recurring multi-step work into a workflow, revise an existing workflow, compare orchestration designs, or review a proposed script.
Why use it?
It helps determine when multiple agents are worthwhile and makes decisions about cost, uncertainty, failure handling, and coverage explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ultracode-workflows plugin — 1 skill, 7 commands, 1 hook 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/hesreallyhim/ultracode-workflows/workflow-authoring
Any agent
npx skills add hesreallyhim/ultracode-workflows --skill workflow-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hesreallyhim/ultracode-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ultracode-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 commands, 1 hook.

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 workflow-authoring

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hesreallyhim/ultracode-workflows/workflow-authoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hesreallyhim/ultracode-workflows/workflow-authoring.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,407 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 $0.00092 $0.03407
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01703
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00681
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00341

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5959a3d34093, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-authoring 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 3d 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/ultracode-workflows/skills/workflow-authoring/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Authoring

Treat the marketplace as a casebook of reusable orchestration designs. The built-in Workflow tool already supplies the execution model; this skill adds authorship judgment: deciding whether a workflow is warranted, selecting compatible patterns, adapting them without copying accidental details, and making the resulting script honest about cost, uncertainty, failure, and coverage.

Prefer a small script with one defensible idea over a miniature workflow framework. A workflow earns its overhead when several agents can contribute genuinely different evidence or when an explicit trust structure—independent verification, a completeness critic, falsification, or a bounded repair loop—materially improves the result. Recommend an ordinary prompt or one agent when the work is short, tightly sequential, or cannot be partitioned without duplicating context.

This skill also provides an optional user-facing design process. Its value is not that a user must out-author Claude; it makes Claude’s orchestration choices inspectable and revisable before the workflow is trusted. When the user invokes the skill or /wf-new, expose the major decisions, teach the few composition patterns that matter to this design, and show the static diagram rather than silently producing a script.

Reference routing

Read only what the task needs, but read the selected reference completely.

Reference Use it for
references/catalog-patterns.md Start here when selecting precedents, combining two catalog shapes, or deciding what not to copy
references/patterns.md Read when reasoning about barriers, convergence, verification, diversity, sharding, composition, or human checkpoints
references/api-contract.md Consult while drafting or debugging syntax, metadata, args, schemas, failure behavior, budget, and resume safety
references/exemplar.md Use when a complete mid-sized script would be more useful than isolated rules
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/workflows/<name>.js Read the two or three nearest shipped examples before inventing a new topology
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/diagram-workflow.mjs Optionally render an advisory terminal view after static source review; Mermaid is an explicit artifact format

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 3d ago First seen · 188 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 5959a3d34093

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workflow-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository hesreallyhim/ultracode-workflows (2 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 3,407 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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