workhorse

workhorse is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HiQS-Labs/XYZ-forge. It costs 151 tokens per session (3,190 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A workflow skill for solving problems from initial investigation through a safe, focused fix. It emphasizes establishing facts, reusing existing code, following project instructions, and checking related documentation and change records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for end-to-end debugging and implementation tasks that need investigation, a minimal solution, governance checks, and follow-up verification.
Why use it?
It gives coding work a consistent path instead of encouraging ad hoc fixes or unnecessary new code. It also helps keep changes aligned across repositories and project rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it for end-to-end debugging and implementation tasks that need investigation, a minimal solution, governance checks, and follow-up verification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hiqs-labs/xyz-forge/workhorse
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 HiQS-Labs/XYZ-forge --skill workhorse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HiQS-Labs/XYZ-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for workhorse

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,190 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00151 $0.03190
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01595
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00638
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00319

Measured 3d ago against content hash 045c1d152a1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workhorse scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (install.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- For a failure/bug: capture a fast, deterministic runnable repro (failing test, curl, CLI run).
skills/workhorse/SKILL.md · 226 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago Changed · +61 lines · +17 tokens per session 045c1d152a1d
  2. 6d ago First seen · 165 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 2f295d29fdfe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

workhorse is a skill published in the GitHub repository HiQS-Labs/XYZ-forge (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 3,190 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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