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.
npx skills add HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard --skill common-workflow-writinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standardWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-workflow-writing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-workflow-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-workflow-writing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-workflow-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-workflow-writing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00045 | $0.00613 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00307 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00123 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
common-workflow-writing 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 13d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Workflow Writing Standard
Priority: P0 (CRITICAL)
Core Rules
- Templates, not examples: Workflows define structure, not pre-filled data. agent generates data at runtime.
- No example rows in tables: Include headers + 1 skeleton row only. Never populate with fake data.
- No prose explanations: If bullet or command achieves same result, delete paragraph.
- No pre-answered questions: Don't document what agent will output — let it output it.
- Merge sequential steps: If two steps always happen together, they one step.
Size Limits
| File type | Limit | If exceeded |
|---|---|---|
Workflow .md |
80 lines | Extract detail to references/ |
| SKILL.md | 100 lines | Extract examples to references/ |
| Table rows | 8 | Extract to references/ |
| Inline code block | 10 lines | Extract to references/ |
Workflow Structure (Required order)
1. Goal (1 sentence)
2. Steps (imperative verb → command or checklist)
3. Output template (headers only, no pre-filled rows)
Anti-Patterns
- No verbose step preambles:
"Before we start, it's important to understand..."→ Delete - No pre-filled report rows:
| Security | P0 | ✅ PASS | CLIENT_ID moved to env |→ Delete - No repeated examples: Same concept shown twice in different formats → Keep one
- No "How to X" sections: step instruction
- No caution blocks for obvious rules: Reserve
> ⚠️for genuinely non-obvious risks - Portable output contracts: Use
feature_status, missing evidence, decision needed, and adapter-neutral language; avoid runtime-specific tool names, chat channels, containers, and mount paths in canonical workflows.
Quick Self-Check Before Saving
- Can agent reconstruct any removed content at runtime from context? If yes → remove it
- every table row real structure, not example data?
- there any paragraphs bullet list could replace?
- Would cutting this in half still give agent enough to act on?
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 65 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 153063fb1a43
common-workflow-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard (565 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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