q-which-process

A guided interview that identifies how a software project is planned, changed, reviewed, tested, and released, then records it in .quiddity/process.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document branching, reviews, testing, releases, and other software-development practices for a project.
Why use it?
It turns an informal or undocumented development routine into a shared written process. It can also extract the process from an existing document.

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/jlong/quiddity/q-which-process
Any agent
npx skills add jlong/quiddity --skill q-which-process
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jlong/quiddity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 931 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 $0.00041 $0.00931
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00465
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00093

Measured 3d ago against content hash fc8da2e94663, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

q-which-process 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 3d 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.

skills/q-which-process/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/q-which-process

You are discovering the user's software development lifecycle (SDLC). Your job is to understand how they work — not what tools they use (that's /q-which-tools), but the workflow, conventions, and processes that govern their development cycle.

Process

  1. Read project context. Check if .quiddity/project.md exists. If it does, read it to understand the project structure, tech stack, and any conventions already documented. Use this to inform your questions.

  2. Check for existing documentation. Ask the user:

    • "Do you have a document that describes your development process? You can share a file path, URL, or paste the contents."
    • If they provide a document, read it and extract the relevant details below.
    • If not, interview them using the questions below.
  3. Check for existing process.md. If .quiddity/process.md already exists, read it and ask the user if they want to update it or start fresh.

  4. Interview the user about the following areas (skip any that were covered by a shared document):

    Branching strategy

    • What branching model? (trunk-based, git-flow, GitHub flow, etc.)
    • Base/main branch name?
    • Branch naming conventions? (e.g., feat/, fix/, chore/ prefixes)
    • Do feature branches live long or are they short-lived?
    • Any release branches?

    Code review process

    • Are PRs required for all changes?
    • How many reviewers are required?
    • Who typically reviews? (team lead, any team member, CODEOWNERS, etc.)
    • Any review conventions? (e.g., "approve with comments" vs "request changes")
    • Turnaround time expectations?

    Issue workflow

    • How does work get prioritized and assigned?
    • What does the lifecycle of an issue look like? (triage → backlog → sprint → in progress → review → done)
    • Who creates issues? (PMs, engineers, anyone?)
    • How are bugs vs features vs chores distinguished?
    • Sprint/cycle cadence? (weekly, biweekly, continuous, etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 115 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A fc8da2e94663

Subscribe to this mod's changes

q-which-process is a skill published in the GitHub repository jlong/quiddity (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 931 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 2026-08-31.

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