dev-flow

A procedure for bounded software-development tasks such as implementation, bug fixes, refactoring, and focused testing. It also defines how independent tasks can be run in separate Git worktrees, which are isolated working copies of a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Implementing changes, fixing bugs, refactoring code, running targeted tests, delivering development work, and coordinating explicitly parallel tasks.
Why use it?
It keeps development work limited to a defined task and helps prevent parallel changes from interfering with one another.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/innocent-children/dev-flow/dev-flow
Any agent
npx skills add Innocent-children/dev-flow --skill dev-flow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Innocent-children/dev-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,251 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 $0.00084 $0.06251
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.03125
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00625

Measured 2d ago against content hash d7368fd07e5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-flow 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 2d 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.

packages/codex/plugin/skills/dev-flow/SKILL.md · 477 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 477 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dev Flow

This Skill is the current Core contract Codex adapter for the shared Dev Flow Core. Core owns task state, current node, legal transitions, destinations, recovery, blockers, and terminal outcomes. The Skill admits one implicit or explicit request, silently validates normal startup results, renders method work, and forwards one closed result without keeping adapter state.

Request routing

Route the current request before the single-Task admission gate.

An explicit parallel batch names two or more independent, bounded development tasks for the same logical Git repository and asks Codex to run them concurrently. Handle that batch as a Host coordination request, not as one Core Task:

  1. Use this route only when the current Host exposes a task/thread creation capability that can place every child in a distinct Git worktree. A generic sub-agent or child that shares the coordinator's working directory is not isolated and must not be used for this route.
  2. Create one worktree-backed Codex task for each bounded item. Give each child only its own request, bounds and acceptance criteria, and include the exact $dev-flow-codex:dev-flow selector so the child performs its own admission, handshake, Task discovery and Action loop.
  3. Do not call any Dev Flow MCP tool from the coordinator and do not create a parent Core Task for the batch. Each child worktree owns one independent Core Task; Core remains unaware of the Host coordination layer.
  4. Do not create, switch, delete or clean a Git worktree through shell or Core. The Host-provided worktree task capability owns worktree setup under the user's current request and authorization.
  5. If the capability is absent, cannot guarantee a distinct worktree for every child, or cannot preserve the requested task boundaries, stop before dispatch. Tell the user to start each item in a separate Codex worktree-backed task; do not fall through to one combined Task or shared-directory parallel work.
  6. Host monitoring may report each child independently. It must not merge Task state, infer a shared outcome, or perform commit, merge, rebase, push or conflict resolution without separate authority.

Read the full file on GitHub · 477 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2d ago First seen · 477 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A d7368fd07e5e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository Innocent-children/dev-flow (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 6,251 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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