kn-go

kn-go is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from knowns-dev/knowns. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A legacy workflow for taking an approved software specification through tasks, planning, implementation, verification, and a commit checkpoint. It is meant for users who explicitly request this older pipeline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running an approved specification from defined requirements to verified code and a commit checkpoint, including a dry run that previews tasks without changing project files.
Why use it?
It provides a fixed sequence for completing an approved specification, while stopping when required information is missing or unresolved. It is not the normal workflow for newer review or delegation steps.

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/knowns-dev/knowns/kn-go
Any agent
npx skills add knowns-dev/knowns --skill kn-go
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/knowns-dev/knowns

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,097 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 $0.00030 $0.01097
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00549
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00110

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9d44d1221ed7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kn-go 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.

internal/instructions/skills/kn-go/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.

Go Mode — Legacy Full Pipeline

Announce: "Using kn-go for spec [name]."

Core principle: APPROVED SPEC → TASKS → PLAN → IMPLEMENT → VERIFY → COMMIT GATE.

kn-go is a compatibility workflow. Use it only when the user explicitly requests the legacy no-review-gates pipeline. For normal approved-spec execution, delegation, parallel safety checks, or integrated review, use /kn-flow @doc/<spec-path>.

Inputs

  • Approved spec ref
  • Optional --dry-run to validate and preview tasks without mutating project state

Stop if the spec is draft, has no ACs, has blocking open questions, or the requested ref cannot be resolved.

Phase 1: Validate and Discover

  1. Read the spec and its complete Locked Decisions section.
  2. Validate the spec.
  3. Resolve existing linked tasks before generating anything.
  4. Reuse existing tasks; skip done tasks and continue todo/in-progress work in dependency order.
  5. Retrieve only relevant accepted/current System Decisions with bounded filters.
mcp_knowns_docs({ "action": "get", "path": "<spec-path>", "smart": true })
mcp_knowns_validate({ "entity": "<spec-path>" })
mcp_knowns_search({ "action": "resolve", "ref": "@doc/<spec-path>{implements}",
  "direction": "inbound", "entityTypes": "task" })

With --dry-run, stop after presenting validation plus the task create/reuse preview.

Phase 2: Create Missing Tasks

Use the same task-shaping rules as /kn-plan --from @doc/<spec-path>, but skip its approval gate because the user explicitly selected go mode:

  • clean titles and stable order; no synthetic [<slug>-NN] bracket prefixes
  • the spec's optional Task GenerationTask Prefix passed as prefix on each create call, or omitted when blank to use the project default
  • spec link and fulfills mapping
  • outcome-oriented task ACs
  • concise descriptions; implementation detail belongs in task plans
  • no duplicate task scope

Report the number of reused and created tasks before implementation begins.

Phase 3: Execute Sequentially

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. 5d ago First seen · 115 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 9d44d1221ed7

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kn-go is a skill published in the GitHub repository knowns-dev/knowns (242 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,097 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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