development-workflow

Development workflow guidance covers the path from creating a code branch to reviewing changes and publishing a version. It includes branching strategies, commit conventions, pull requests, code review, and release tags.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a branching model, write commits, open or review pull requests, enforce commit rules, create version tags, or prepare a release.
Why use it?
It gives a team a shared way to coordinate changes, review work, track releases, and generate useful history or changelogs.

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/kid-sid/codex-spellbook/development-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add kid-sid/codex-spellbook --skill development-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kid-sid/codex-spellbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,087 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 $0.00036 $0.03087
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01543
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00617
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00309

Measured 2d ago against content hash cf351b562b08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

development-workflow 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.

skills/development-workflow/SKILL.md · 323 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 323 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development Workflow

A complete reference for Git branching, commit conventions, pull request workflow, code review practices, and release management — covering everything from first branch to published release.

When to Activate

  • Starting work on a new feature, bug fix, or chore
  • Writing a commit message
  • Opening or reviewing a pull request
  • Deciding on a branching strategy for a new project or team
  • Creating a release or version tag
  • Setting up commit message linting or changelog generation

Branching Strategies

Comparison Table

Strategy Branches Used Release Cadence Team Size Fit Pros Cons
GitHub Flow main + feature branches Continuous (deploy on merge) Small–medium Simple, fast feedback, CD-friendly No built-in release staging
Git Flow main, develop, feature/*, release/*, hotfix/* Scheduled / versioned Medium–large Clear release lifecycle, hotfix path Complex, slow merging, overhead
Trunk-Based Development main (+ very short-lived branches) Continuous Any (with CI maturity) Maximum integration speed, minimal merge conflicts Requires feature flags, strong CI discipline

GitHub Flow

Developers branch from main, open a pull request, and merge back to main on approval. Merging to main triggers deployment. Suitable when every merged commit should ship.

git checkout -b feat/PROJ-42-add-oauth main
# ... commit work ...
git push -u origin feat/PROJ-42-add-oauth
# Open PR → review → merge → auto-deploy

Git Flow

Use when releases are batched on a schedule (e.g., sprint releases, versioned libraries).

# New feature
git checkout -b feature/PROJ-99-dark-mode develop

# Prepare a release
git checkout -b release/1.4.0 develop
# bump version, final fixes, then merge to main AND develop
git checkout main && git merge release/1.4.0
git tag -a v1.4.0 -m "Release v1.4.0"

# Emergency hotfix
git checkout -b hotfix/fix-login-crash main
# fix, then merge to main AND develop

Read the full file on GitHub · 323 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. 2d ago First seen · 323 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A cf351b562b08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

development-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository kid-sid/codex-spellbook (21 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,087 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 2026-08-30.

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