ask-workbench

ask-workbench is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KaydenClark/LLM_Workbench. It costs 17 tokens per session (288 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for Workbench, a set of skills for planning, building, reviewing, and documenting software projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select flows for new projects, existing-project setup, product discovery, documentation, specifications, implementation, ticket creation, and code review.
Why use it?
It helps choose a suitable starting point when a project request could lead to several different workflows. It asks one question only when the choice would change the work substantially.

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/kaydenclark/llm_workbench/ask-workbench
Any agent
npx skills add KaydenClark/LLM_Workbench --skill ask-workbench
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KaydenClark/LLM_Workbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ask-workbench

README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 288 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 $0.00017 $0.00288
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00144
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00029

Measured 5d ago against content hash 996bc38abf67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-workbench 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 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.

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/ask-workbench/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Use the selected catalog in ../README.md to recommend one starting skill and, when useful, the short sequence after it. Ask one question only when two routes would produce materially different work. Wait for the user to ask before starting the recommended skill.

Default routes:

  • new greenfield project from a founding prompt: /genesis;
  • existing project adopts the Workbench for the first time: /adoption;
  • routine harness update for an adopted project: /update-harness;
  • unclear idea or unresolved product decisions: /grill-me;
  • concise live orientation: /sitrep;
  • settled conversation needs updates to existing documentation: /to-docs;
  • settled conversation needs a durable work packet: /to-spec;
  • a spec needs executable slices: /to-tickets;
  • one eligible spec slice is ready for delivery: /implement;
  • a fixed implementation diff needs independent findings: /code-review;
  • skill authoring rules are needed: /writing-great-skills.

The main delivery flow is:

grill-me -> to-docs or to-spec -> to-tickets -> implement -> code-review

The selected catalog also preserves pending rewrites outside live discovery. Recommend only entries marked Active in the catalog.

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 · 32 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 996bc38abf67

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask-workbench is a skill published in the GitHub repository KaydenClark/LLM_Workbench (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 288 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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