os-check-work

os-check-work is a skill for Claude Code from kharmanskyi/open-steps. It costs 118 tokens per session (1,836 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification guide for checking whether work completed in another coding session is really finished and safe to accept.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review another session's work, inspect sibling sessions, or decide whether a pull request can be accepted or merged.
Why use it?
It prevents relying on optimistic reports or outdated status information. It checks the claimed changes and current project state.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the open-steps plugin — 7 skills, 1 command, 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/kharmanskyi/open-steps/os-check-work
Any agent
npx skills add kharmanskyi/open-steps --skill os-check-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kharmanskyi/open-steps

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-steps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 command, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 os-check-work

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kharmanskyi/open-steps/os-check-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kharmanskyi/open-steps/os-check-work.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,836 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 5.1 $0.00118 $0.01836
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00918
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00184

Measured 6d ago against content hash 09a7e2b5dc74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

os-check-work 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 6d 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/os-check-work/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

os-check-work

You are the receiving party: another session says it finished, and your job is to find out whether that is true. Reports run optimistic - they are written by whoever did the work. Triggers live in the description above; one more is taking over work you did not do.

Language

Write in the language the user speaks in this session, detected from the conversation. Code, file names and identifiers stay English.

The stance

  • A report is a claim by the party being assessed, and its adjectives are not measurements: "tests are green" vs the count that ran. Ask for the number.
  • "Done" is a snapshot: reviews get revoked, branches fall behind, checks flip
    • often with no new commit. Re-read immediately before you act.

Two modes

Plural is a sweep: every sibling session, one line each, statuses only. Singular - "accept this", a named session or pull request - is an accept: full verification, then acceptance. A sweep that finds verified-ready work rolls into accepting it - the accept steps run first, never skipped.

Sweep

One line per session, one call per pull request - the reader skims these and reads the closing block. No table:

<name a person recognises (#PR)> - ; <all done? plus proof in 2-4 words, or what is missing>; <archive: yes / not yet>.

  • Name from the ticket or PR title, never your shorthand; the change for the product, not a file list.
  • A yes carries its proof ("checks green, review approved"); never a bare yes.
  • "All done" ≠ "can archive": finished work can still await acceptance.
  • Order: needs-the-user, then broken, then still-working - a running session is one word, not a finding.
  • No deep verification in a sweep: say what you did not open and what that leaves unverified. Never announce your working mode - "cheap checks" is bookkeeping.
  • A session waiting on an answer gets it in the same pass - see "The reply"; when that needs the deep read, the reply becomes the do-this-next.
  • Name the sessions you could not read, and why.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 162 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 09a7e2b5dc74

Subscribe to this mod's changes

os-check-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository kharmanskyi/open-steps (249 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 1,836 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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