link-workspace-packages

A tool for connecting packages inside a monorepo. A monorepo is one code repository containing multiple related packages or applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify the consuming and providing packages, add the correct workspace dependency for npm, Yarn, pnpm, or Bun, and verify the local link.
Why use it?
It prevents import and dependency errors when one workspace package uses another package from the same repository.

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/lukascivil/json-difference/link-workspace-packages
Any agent
npx skills add lukascivil/json-difference --skill link-workspace-packages
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lukascivil/json-difference

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 769 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00124 $0.00769
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00077

Measured 3d ago against content hash f1f4a8dfc3e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

link-workspace-packages 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to link-workspace-packages — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/skills/link-workspace-packages/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add dependencies between packages in a monorepo. All package managers support workspaces but with different syntax.

Detect Package Manager

Check whether there's a packageManager field in the root-level package.json.

Alternatively check lockfile in repo root:

  • pnpm-lock.yaml → pnpm
  • yarn.lock → yarn
  • bun.lock / bun.lockb → bun
  • package-lock.json → npm

Workflow

  1. Identify consumer package (the one importing)
  2. Identify provider package(s) (being imported)
  3. Add dependency using package manager's workspace syntax
  4. Verify symlinks created in consumer's node_modules/

pnpm

Uses workspace: protocol - symlinks only created when explicitly declared.

# From consumer directory
pnpm add @org/ui --workspace

# Or with --filter from anywhere
pnpm add @org/ui --filter @org/app --workspace

Result in package.json:

{ "dependencies": { "@org/ui": "workspace:*" } }

yarn (v2+/berry)

Also uses workspace: protocol.

yarn workspace @org/app add @org/ui

Result in package.json:

{ "dependencies": { "@org/ui": "workspace:^" } }

npm

No workspace: protocol. npm auto-symlinks workspace packages.

npm install @org/ui --workspace @org/app

Result in package.json:

{ "dependencies": { "@org/ui": "*" } }

npm resolves to local workspace automatically during install.


bun

Supports workspace: protocol (pnpm-compatible).

cd packages/app && bun add @org/ui

Result in package.json:

{ "dependencies": { "@org/ui": "workspace:*" } }

Examples

Example 1: pnpm - link ui lib to app

pnpm add @org/ui --filter @org/app --workspace

Example 2: npm - link multiple packages

npm install @org/data-access @org/ui --workspace @org/dashboard

Example 3: Debug "Cannot find module"

  1. Check if dependency is declared in consumer's package.json
  2. If not, add it using appropriate command above
  3. Run install (pnpm install, npm install, etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 3d ago First seen · 128 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A f1f4a8dfc3e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

link-workspace-packages is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukascivil/json-difference (58 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 769 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to link-workspace-packages, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.