work

A workflow command that takes the next unfinished task from a project's task list through planning, coding, testing, review, cleanup, and completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work through tasks recorded in a project list, either with user checkpoints or in unattended mode.
Why use it?
It keeps implementation work moving in a defined order and reduces the chance of skipping testing or review.

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/michaelcjoseph/agent-coding-setup/work
Any agent
npx skills add michaelcjoseph/agent-coding-setup --skill work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michaelcjoseph/agent-coding-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,063 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 $0.00000 $0.04063
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02031
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00813
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00406

Measured yesterday against content hash 1f109cb04c6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work 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 yesterday.

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/work/SKILL.md · 347 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 347 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/work

Pick the next pending task from a project's task list and drive it through the full implementation cycle: plan, implement, test, review, fix, simplify, and mark complete.

Usage

/work [project-name] [--auto]

If no argument is given, list all projects in docs/projects/ and ask the user which one to work on.

--auto (unattended mode): skips all user-interaction gates so one invocation sweeps the entire task list end-to-end. Specifically: step 2 skips the "confirm before proceeding" gate, Phase 1 skips Plan Mode entirely (still does exploration and writes the plan to the turn output for the transcript record, but does not call EnterPlanMode/ExitPlanMode since those require human approval), step 15 creates one git commit per completed task (using the release-notes agent to draft the message) without pausing for approval, and step 16 auto-continues to the next unchecked task without asking. Hard stops (step 2 empty list, step 9 caused-by-diff failures unresolved, step 11 BLOCK verdict, step 12 tests failing twice, step 15 commit still failing after one retry, step 16 empty list) still terminate the run — those are error/completion exits, not checkpoints.

Because --auto commits everything in the working tree at the end of each task, start from a clean working tree (no unrelated uncommitted changes). If git status is dirty at step 2 in --auto mode, stop and report to the user instead of sweeping those changes into a task commit.

No discretionary pauses in --auto. The hard stops listed above are the only valid reasons to stop or ask the user something mid-run. Do not invent additional checkpoints — do not pause to offer a commit, confirm direction, summarize progress, checkpoint a subsystem boundary, or ask whether to proceed between tasks. If a general instruction elsewhere (e.g., "only commit when the user asks" or "confirm risky actions") seems to conflict with --auto, resolve it by not performing the action, not by pausing. The user authorized an unattended sweep by passing --auto; interrupting that sweep for any reason outside the hard-stop list violates the contract.

Read the full file on GitHub · 347 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. yesterday First seen · 347 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1f109cb04c6d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work is a skill published in the GitHub repository michaelcjoseph/agent-coding-setup (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,063 tokens. 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.

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