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 agentmods add skills/jimmypaolini/codebase/link-workspace-packagesnpx skills add JimmyPaolini/codebase --skill link-workspace-packagesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JimmyPaolini/codebaseWhat 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 | $0.00124 | $0.00769 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00062 | $0.00385 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00154 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00077 |
Grade A, and why
link-workspace-packages 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to link-workspace-packages — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Link Workspace Packages
Add dependencies between packages in a monorepo. All package managers support workspaces but with different syntax.
Detect Package Manager
Check whether there's a packageManager field in the root-level package.json.
Alternatively check lockfile in repo root:
pnpm-lock.yaml→ pnpmyarn.lock→ yarnbun.lock/bun.lockb→ bunpackage-lock.json→ npm
Workflow
- Identify consumer package (the one importing)
- Identify provider package(s) (being imported)
- Add dependency using package manager's workspace syntax
- Verify symlinks created in consumer's
node_modules/
pnpm
Uses workspace: protocol - symlinks only created when explicitly declared.
# From consumer directory
pnpm add @org/ui --workspace
# Or with --filter from anywhere
pnpm add @org/ui --filter @org/app --workspace
Result in package.json:
{ "dependencies": { "@org/ui": "workspace:*" } }
yarn (v2+/berry)
Also uses workspace: protocol.
yarn workspace @org/app add @org/ui
Result in package.json:
{ "dependencies": { "@org/ui": "workspace:^" } }
npm
No workspace: protocol. npm auto-symlinks workspace packages.
npm install @org/ui --workspace @org/app
Result in package.json:
{ "dependencies": { "@org/ui": "*" } }
npm resolves to local workspace automatically during install.
bun
Supports workspace: protocol (pnpm-compatible).
cd packages/app && bun add @org/ui
Result in package.json:
{ "dependencies": { "@org/ui": "workspace:*" } }
Examples
Example 1: pnpm - link ui lib to app
pnpm add @org/ui --filter @org/app --workspace
Example 2: npm - link multiple packages
npm install @org/data-access @org/ui --workspace @org/dashboard
Example 3: Debug "Cannot find module"
- Check if dependency is declared in consumer's
package.json - If not, add it using appropriate command above
- Run install (
pnpm install,npm install, etc.)
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 128 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A f1f4a8dfc3e6
link-workspace-packages is a skill published in the GitHub repository JimmyPaolini/codebase (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 769 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to link-workspace-packages, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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