processize

A method for turning a manually tested task into written steps and selective automation after it has been repeated at least three times.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps document recurring work, create checklists, decide which parts are safe to automate, and keep human judgment where the process is not predictable.
Why use it?
It prevents you from automating a workflow before you understand it, which could make mistakes happen faster and more often.

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/lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system/processize
Any agent
npx skills add lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system --skill processize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,357 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 $0.00102 $0.01357
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00136

Measured 2d ago against content hash 03e776403052, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

processize 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.

.claude/skills/processize/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Processize

Codify a process AFTER you have validated it manually. Never automate a workflow that is still being discovered. Automation locks in whatever you point it at — including the bugs.


Mindset

"If you automate before validating, you scale the wrong thing. If you process-ize after validating 3+ times, you've earned the right to compress." — paraphrased from Sahil Lavingia, The Minimalist Entrepreneur

Three-stage maturity:

  1. Manual — first 1–3 times. Pure improvisation. Goal: learn what the process actually is.
  2. Documented — 3rd to ~10th time. Same human, written checklist, no automation. Goal: prove the steps are stable.
  3. Processized — 10th+ time. Checklist + AI assist + selective automation. Goal: compress the predictable parts, leave judgment with the human.

Skipping straight from 1 to 3 is the most expensive bug in vibe coding.


When to invoke

  • User says "tô fazendo isso toda semana" / "isso já cansou" / "deve ter um jeito mais rápido".
  • User says "vamos automatizar isso?" — invoke FIRST to check it has been validated 3+ times.
  • daily-standup skill flags the same manual task across 3+ sessions.
  • Post-launch operations work that is repeating: weekly user outreach, content publishing, retention checks, billing reconciliation.
  • Before introducing any cron, scheduled job, webhook, or AI loop that codifies a workflow.

When NOT to invoke

  • The task has been done fewer than 3 times.
  • The task changes shape every time it runs (still in discovery).
  • The user wants to redesign the process, not codify it — use brainstorming or prototype-lab instead.
  • The task is a one-off (e.g. "set up the Stripe account") — write a session log, not a process.

The 5-question gate

Before producing a process document, the skill MUST get answers to these. Ask them one at a time if missing:

  1. How many times has this been done manually? (< 3 → stop, do it manually a few more times.)
  2. Did it produce the desired outcome the last 3 times? (no → not yet ready; debug the manual version first.)
  3. Which steps are identical every time? (these are the automation candidates.)
  4. Which steps require human judgment? (these stay manual or become AI-assisted.)
  5. What would happen if the automated version ran wrong for a week without anyone noticing? (defines the safety net.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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 · 150 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 03e776403052

Subscribe to this mod's changes

processize is a skill published in the GitHub repository lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system (11 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,357 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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