ww-setup

ww-setup is a skill for Codex from jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins. It costs 148 tokens per session (1,810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project setup helper that checks whether the external tools required by the project's skills are installed. These include tools for generating documents, processing scraped job data, and controlling WaterlooWorks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up, bootstrapping, or checking whether this project can run its skills on a machine.
Why use it?
It finds missing dependencies before a skill fails halfway through with an unclear error.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when setting up, bootstrapping, or checking whether this project can run its skills on a machine.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins/ww-setup
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 jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins --skill ww-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,810 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.
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 $0.00148 $0.01810
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.00905
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00181

Measured 9d ago against content hash f78fd1e048c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ww-setup 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (evals/fixtures/fresh-skills/banner-tool/scripts/banner.js, evals/fixtures/fresh-skills/pdf-maker/scripts/make.py, scripts/check_skill_deps.py), 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.

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.

plugins/waterlooworks-jobs-codex/skills/ww-setup/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ww-setup

Make a freshly-cloned copy of this repo able to actually run its skills. The skills call out to external tools — python3 + reportlab to render cover letters, node to write/validate scraped JDs, the Codex @chrome plugin to drive WaterlooWorks. If any of those is missing, the skill fails partway through with a confusing error. This skill finds the gaps up front and closes the ones it safely can.

The core idea

A bundled script does the detection so you don't have to eyeball every file: it walks the skills tree, infers each skill's real dependencies, checks what's installed, and classifies every missing one by how it should be installed. Your job is to run that script and then act on each class according to the policy below.

Step 1 — Detect and classify

Run the checker from the repo root. Use --json so you can act on the result programmatically; run it without --json first if you want to show the user a readable table.

python3 .codex/skills/ww-setup/scripts/check_skill_deps.py --root .codex/skills --json

Each missing dependency comes back with a class field that tells you exactly how to handle it:

class What it is What to do
light A user-level Python package (e.g. reportlab) Auto-install, no need to ask.
heavy A language runtime or global npm package — needs Homebrew/sudo/system change Confirm with the user, then run.
user A browser connector / external plugin (e.g. Codex's @chrome plugin) You can't install it from the CLI — hand it to the user with the setup hint.

The script exits 0 when all CLI-installable deps are satisfied (browser/user deps don't fail the check), 1 when something needs action. Installed items report class: null and installed: true — skip those.

Step 2 — Install the safe ones automatically (light)

For every pip_packages entry with installed: false, run its install_cmd. These are ordinary user-space package installs with no system side effects, so the user already opted into "just do it" — don't stop to ask. The script gives you the exact command, which already maps import names to the correct pip name (e.g. yamlpyyaml):

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 9d ago First seen · 138 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A f78fd1e048c4

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ww-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 1,810 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.