general-workflow-planner

A planner that breaks a high-level scientific workflow into ordered, executable steps using available skills and tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn workflows such as structure generation, relaxation, stability checks, and dynamics into a concrete research plan.
Why use it?
It connects broad research goals to existing capabilities and dependencies, making the work easier to carry out in the right order.

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/learningmatter-mit/atomisticskills/general-workflow-planner
Any agent
npx skills add learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill general-workflow-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 674 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 $0.00039 $0.00674
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00337
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00067

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8b9b05de2343, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-workflow-planner 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.

.agents/skills/general-workflow-planner/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

General Workflow Planner

Goal

To decompose high-level scientific workflows (either sourced from literature or proposed directly by the user) into a concrete, executable sequence. This skill parses the objective and outputs a chronological "Detailed Action Plan" that feeds directly into the research_plan.md artifact, in accordance with .agents/rules/research-standards.md. Do not overcomplicate the output; it should be a straightforward list of steps.

Prerequisites

  • A high-level scientific workflow proposed by the user or derived from literature review.
  • Access to the .agents/skills/ registry and available MCP tools.

Instructions

  1. Objective Parsing Analyze the high-level workflow to determine the key scientific steps (e.g., Structure Generation $\rightarrow$ Relaxation $\rightarrow$ Stability $\rightarrow$ Dynamics).

  2. Skill Registry Mapping Scan the repository's capabilities. Map each conceptual step to existing project tools by searching the .agents/skills/ directory and available MCP tools (e.g., mcp_mace_run_md, mcp_matgl_relax_structure).

  3. Dependency Construction Map the dependencies between the identified SKILLs and MCP tools:

    • Identify data dependencies: The output of Step A must act as the input for Step B (e.g., the mat-db-mp skill outputs a .cif, which serves as the input for the mcp_mace_relax_structure MCP tool).
    • Identify parallelization opportunities if applicable.
  4. Feasibility Analysis

    • Verify that there is a continuous line of data flowing from the initial state to the target objective using only existing tools.
    • If missing steps exist, flag them explicitly so the user knows where custom scripting or new skills are required.
  5. Detailed Action Plan Generation Output a concrete, chronological list of steps required to execute the workflow. List the proposed hyperparameters for each SKILL and MCP tool (e.g., temperature, steps, supercell_min_length). This list is directly inserted into the Detailed Action Plan section of research_plan.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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. 2d ago First seen · 52 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 8b9b05de2343

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general-workflow-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (154 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 674 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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