workflow-development

workflow-development is a skill for Claude Code from lugassawan/swe-workbench. It costs 172 tokens per session (4,528 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software development workflow covering branching, implementation, verification, review, and delivery. It also coordinates work between multiple agents when tasks can be done in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or carry out implementation, design, refactoring, debugging, testing, architecture, migration, or documentation work.
Why use it?
It gives development work a consistent path from an idea or bug to a reviewed, delivered change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the ExitPlanMode tool.

Part of the swe-workbench plugin — 60 skills, 25 commands, 32 agents, 4 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/lugassawan/swe-workbench/workflow-development
Any agent
npx skills add lugassawan/swe-workbench --skill workflow-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lugassawan/swe-workbench

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swe-workbench, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 60 skills, 25 commands, 32 agents, 4 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 workflow-development

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lugassawan/swe-workbench/workflow-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lugassawan/swe-workbench/workflow-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 172 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,528 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 $0.00172 $0.04528
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.02264
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00906
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00453

Measured 2d ago against content hash e85bbc829677, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-development 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/workflow-development/SKILL.md · 244 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development Workflow

Single source of truth for how development work flows. Three modes:

  • Mode A (Plan Writing): Embed a ## Workflow section into plans using templates/plan-workflow-section.md
  • Mode B (Implementation): Guide step-by-step execution through all 5 phases
  • Mode C (Orchestration): Coordinate multiple parallel agents across dependency rounds — see orchestration.md

Announce at start: "I'm using the development skill to [write the workflow section / guide this implementation]."

When This Skill Activates

  • Mode A: Writing or finalizing an implementation plan (before ExitPlanMode)
  • Mode B: User says "implement this", "build this", "execute this plan", "run the implementation plan end to end" — any branch → code → deliver flow. For focused bug diagnosis prefer /swe-workbench:debug (invokes the debugger subagent, which composes superpowers:systematic-debugging); escalate here when the fix needs the full 5-phase lifecycle.
    • Prefer entering here rather than calling superpowers:executing-plans directly — Phase 2 already delegates to it while adding the surrounding Branch → Verify → Review → Deliver lifecycle.
  • Mode C: User says "orchestrate these issues", "run in parallel", multi-issue campaigns with >3 issues

Sub-Skill Integration Map

Mode B — Single Implementation:

  Phase 1 (Branch)    → enter existing worktree if one matches, else rimba add <task> (rimba) OR superpowers:using-git-worktrees (fallback)
  Phase 2 (Implement) → superpowers:executing-plans OR superpowers:subagent-driven-development
                          └─ swe-workbench:principle-tdd (per unit)
                          └─ swe-workbench:workflow-delegated-implementation (scope/complexity warrants isolation)
  Phase 3 (Verify)    → superpowers:verification-before-completion
  Phase 4 (Review)    → BOTH in parallel (neither optional):
                          ├─ superpowers:requesting-code-review (Skill — plan-alignment)
                          └─ swe-workbench:reviewer (subagent — diff correctness/security/design)
  Phase 5 (Deliver)   → swe-workbench:workflow-commit-and-pr

Mode C — Orchestration: see orchestration.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 244 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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 · 244 lines · 172 tokens per session scan A e85bbc829677

Subscribe to this mod's changes

workflow-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository lugassawan/swe-workbench (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 4,528 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.

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