create-workflow

A tool for creating WORKFLOW.md files that schedule Jazz agents to perform recurring tasks. It is intended for agent-based automation rather than ordinary operating-system commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to schedule an agent to check or process something repeatedly, such as checking email every hour.
Why use it?
It turns a recurring request into a documented schedule with settings such as missed-run handling, approval level, and required skills. It also helps clarify missing details before creating the workflow.

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/lvndry/jazz/create-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add lvndry/jazz --skill create-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lvndry/jazz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,732 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 $0.00038 $0.02732
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01366
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00546
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00273

Measured 2d ago against content hash 60af5b944b2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-workflow 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/create-workflow/SKILL.md · 351 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 351 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Workflow

Generate workflow automation files that schedule jazz agents to run recurring tasks.

When to Use

  • User wants to automate a recurring task using a Jazz Agent
  • User asks to "create a workflow" or "schedule an agent"
  • User says "I want to check X every Y" (e.g., "check emails every hour")
  • User wants unattended agent execution

Note: If the user wants to schedule a simple shell script or system command without using a Jazz Agent, use the create-system-routine skill instead.

Gathering Information (Questionnaire)

Do not create the workflow file until you have enough information. If the user's prompt is vague (e.g. "create a workflow", "I want to automate emails") or missing any of the items below, guide them through a short questionnaire instead of guessing.

You have enough info when you know:

  1. Task: What should the agent do? (Concrete, not vague.)
  2. Schedule: When should it run? (So you can convert to cron.)
  3. Catch-up: Should missed runs execute on startup? (If not specified, ask or choose a sensible default.)
  4. Auto-approve: What risk level? (read-only / low-risk / high-risk / false—default to conservative.)
  5. Skills: Which skills does the agent need? (e.g. email, calendar, deep-research.)
  6. Instructions: Clear, safety-first prompt with explicit criteria and "when in doubt" rules.
  7. Location: Where to save? (Local ./workflows/<name>/ or global ~/.jazz/workflows/<name>/.)

How to run the questionnaire:

  • Ask one or a few questions at a time; don't dump a long list.
  • Use the user's words to refine (e.g. "You said 'clean my inbox'—should that be archive only, or also delete? How old is 'old'?").
  • After each answer, confirm what you have and ask only what's still missing.
  • Once you have all seven items above, proceed to create the WORKFLOW.md.

Workflow

  1. Understand the task: What should the agent do? When should it run? If unclear, ask.
  2. Determine schedule: Convert user intent to cron format; if not stated, ask when they want it to run.
  3. Decide catch-up behavior: Should missed runs execute on startup? Ask if not specified.
  4. Choose auto-approve policy: Based on risk level of operations; default to conservative.
  5. Identify required skills: What skills will the agent need?
  6. Write clear instructions: Safety-first prompt with explicit guidelines.
  7. Create WORKFLOW.md: Place in appropriate directory only after you have enough info from above.

Read the full file on GitHub · 351 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 · 351 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 60af5b944b2c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository lvndry/jazz (50 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,732 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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