fallback-doc-with-delegation

fallback-doc-with-delegation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/OpenSpace. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,839 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fallback workflow for creating professional documents when file reading, web search, code execution, or other data tools fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between a shell-based method for complex formats and direct text or Markdown generation for simple ones.
Why use it?
It provides a way to continue producing a document when normal source and retrieval tools are unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to choose between a shell-based method for complex formats and direct text or Markdown generation for simple ones.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/openspace/write-file-fallback-report-enhanced
About the project

OpenSpace is a skill-management layer for AI agents that stores, retrieves, evaluates, shares, and improves reusable workflows. It is intended for people using multiple coding agents who want skills to be reused and refined based on task outcomes. The catalogue provides 200 skills for use with OpenSpace and the agents it supports.

HKUDS/OpenSpace · 7,544 stars · on GitHub

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 HKUDS/OpenSpace --skill write-file-fallback-report-enhanced
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,839 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 216
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00027 $0.01839
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00920
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00184

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3921bd68af6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fallback-doc-with-delegation 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 5d 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.

benchmarks/gdpval/skills/write-file-fallback-report-enhanced/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fallback Document Generation with Delegation

When to Use This Skill

Use this workflow when attempting to generate a document or report, but multiple primary data source tools fail simultaneously:

  • read_file returns binary/image data instead of text (common with PDFs)
  • search_web returns errors or no results
  • execute_code_sandbox fails unexpectedly
  • Other data retrieval tools are unavailable

Key insight: Rather than getting stuck on failed data retrieval, pivot immediately to generating the document using the most appropriate available method—either shell_agent for complex formats or write_file for simple text.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Step 1: Detect Tool Failure Pattern

Recognize when you're in a fallback scenario:

TOOL_FAILURE_INDICATORS = [
    "read_file returns binary or image data",
    "search_web returns unknown error or empty results",
    "execute_code_sandbox fails repeatedly",
    "Multiple consecutive tool failures on data retrieval"
]

Decision point: If 2+ indicators are present, proceed to Step 2.

Step 2: Choose the Appropriate Fallback Method

Critical Decision: Select between shell_agent and write_file based on document complexity:

Use shell_agent when... Use write_file when...
Generating PDFs or formatted documents Creating simple markdown/text files
Complex layout or styling needed Plain structured content is sufficient
External libraries required (reportlab, pandoc) No special formatting libraries needed
Multi-step generation process Single-pass content generation
Verification/validation needed Direct file creation is adequate

Decision Tree:

Is the output a PDF or complex formatted document?
├── YES → Use shell_agent (delegates to skilled agent)
└── NO → Is it markdown or plain text?
    ├── YES → Use write_file (direct content generation)
    └── NO → Use shell_agent (handles uncertainty)

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 257 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 3921bd68af6f

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fallback-doc-with-delegation is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/OpenSpace (7,544 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,839 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 2026-09-03.

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