ce:work-beta

ce:work-beta is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Jerrylalala/compound-engineering. It costs 37 tokens per session (7,380 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A beta work-execution command for carrying out a plan or coding request with optional delegation to Codex.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute a plan or plain coding request. It supports choosing whether Codex or local agents handle delegated work.
Why use it?
It helps organize implementation work and lets you try an experimental delegation mode while the main workflow remains stable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the compound-engineering plugin — 78 skills, 4 commands, 2 hooks 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/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-work-beta
Any agent
npx skills add Jerrylalala/compound-engineering --skill ce-work-beta
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jerrylalala/compound-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install compound-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 78 skills, 4 commands, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,380 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00037 $0.07380
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.03690
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01476
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00738

Measured 5d ago against content hash 110f0d33617f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ce:work-beta scanned grade B 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 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

If any setting has an unrecognized value, fall through to the hard default for that setting. For optional settings without a hard default (`work_delegate_model`, `work_delegate_effort`), an unrecognized or unparseable va
plugins/compound-engineering/skills/ce-work-beta/SKILL.md · 443 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 443 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work Execution Command

Execute work efficiently while maintaining quality and finishing features.

Introduction

This command takes a work document (plan or specification) or a bare prompt describing the work, and executes it systematically. The focus is on shipping complete features by understanding requirements quickly, following existing patterns, and maintaining quality throughout.

Beta rollout note: Invoke ce-work-beta manually when you want to trial Codex delegation. During the beta period, planning and workflow handoffs remain pointed at stable ce-work to avoid dual-path orchestration complexity.

Input Document

<input_document> #$ARGUMENTS </input_document>

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS for the following optional tokens. Strip each recognized token before interpreting the remainder as the plan file path or bare prompt.

Token Example Effect
delegate:codex delegate:codex Activate Codex delegation mode for plan execution
delegate:local delegate:local Deactivate delegation even if enabled in config

All tokens are optional. When absent, fall back to the resolution chain below.

Fuzzy activation: Also recognize imperative delegation-intent phrases such as "use codex", "delegate to codex", "codex mode", or "delegate mode" as equivalent to delegate:codex. A bare mention of "codex" in a prompt (e.g., "fix codex converter bugs") must NOT activate delegation -- only clear delegation intent triggers it.

Fuzzy deactivation: Also recognize phrases such as "no codex", "local mode", "standard mode" as equivalent to delegate:local.

Settings Resolution Chain

After extracting tokens from arguments, resolve the delegation state using this precedence chain:

  1. Argument flag -- delegate:codex or delegate:local from the current invocation (highest priority)
  2. Config file -- extract settings from the config block below. Value codex for work_delegate activates delegation; false deactivates.
  3. Hard default -- false (delegation off)

Read the full file on GitHub · 443 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. 5d ago First seen · 443 lines · 37 tokens per session scan B 110f0d33617f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ce:work-beta is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jerrylalala/compound-engineering (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 7,380 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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