work-on

work-on is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinemde/dotfiles. It costs 33 tokens per session (685 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

An end-to-end workflow for shipping a GitHub issue, a tracked software task, through research, implementation, and a pull request. It first classifies the issue's complexity and then chooses an appropriate workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess and implement a GitHub issue, coordinate research and development steps, handle larger issues in parts, and prepare the resulting pull request.
Why use it?
It gives issue work a consistent path from understanding the request to proposing code changes. It also accounts for the current branch, uncommitted changes, tests, and incremental commits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess and implement a GitHub issue, coordinate research and development steps, handle larger issues in parts, and prepare the resulting pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinemde/dotfiles/work-on
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.

Any agent
npx skills add martinemde/dotfiles --skill work-on
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinemde/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 work-on

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/martinemde/dotfiles/work-on"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/martinemde/dotfiles/work-on.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 685 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 191
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 193
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 195
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 196
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 197
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 198
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
How audits are shown
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 $0.00033 $0.00685
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00274
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash 28ef4f74e8d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-on 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 5d 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.

home/dot_agents/skills/work-on/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work On

Orchestrate a GitHub issue from understanding through pull request. Preserve existing work, follow the active repository instructions, and adapt to the task and workflow facilities supplied by the current harness.

Supporting files

Constraints

  • Always assess the tier before starting implementation.
  • Use only skills and agents available in the current harness. Perform an equivalent step inline when no matching capability exists.
  • Proceed autonomously except for genuine blockers or decisions that materially change scope.
  • Use the commit skill, when available, for each logical change.
  • Preserve any task list created by the current harness. Do not overwrite unrelated user work.

Workflow

1. Fetch and assess

Fetch the issue and read its discussion:

gh issue view <id-or-url> --json number,title,body,labels,comments,assignees,milestone

Classify it as Quick fix, Small, Medium, Large, or Epic using TIERS.md. State the tier and the evidence for it.

2. Build a tailored runbook

Use the following sequences as defaults. Skill names are shown without harness-specific invocation syntax.

  • Quick fix: checkout, edit, commit, pull request.
  • Small: checkout, gather-context at light scope, edit, commit, pull request.
  • Medium: checkout, gather-context, think, plan, review-plan, share-plan, implement, simplify, commit, pull request.
  • Large: the Medium flow with parallel workstreams where useful, incremental commits, and reflect after the pull request.
  • Epic: gather-context, think about decomposition, split into independently verifiable units, run the appropriate tier flow for each unit, coordinate integration, and reflect.

Tell the user the selected sequence, key dependencies, and any human checkpoints. Then continue unless a checkpoint is required by repository policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago Changed · -150 lines · +33 tokens per session 28ef4f74e8d4
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 220 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 475b4f4a444a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work-on is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinemde/dotfiles (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 685 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.