challenge-workflow

challenge-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from micheltlutz/dev-challenge. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,276 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for completing development challenges from a written specification and acceptance criteria. Acceptance criteria are the conditions that determine whether the work is correct.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read a challenge, clarify unclear requirements, plan the work, implement it, run the provided test harness, and revise failures.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building against assumptions instead of the actual requirements and gives you a way to investigate failing checks.

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/micheltlutz/dev-challenge/challenge-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add micheltlutz/dev-challenge --skill challenge-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/micheltlutz/dev-challenge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,276 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 $0.00087 $0.01276
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00638
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00128

Measured 4d ago against content hash 44f5c3de6da9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

challenge-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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/challenge-workflow/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Challenge workflow

The spec-driven loop this lab is built around. Follow it yourself, and walk the learner through it.

Before anything: posture

Read "First: which job are you doing?" in AGENTS.md.

Default to mentoring. The person is here to learn; the code is the medium, not the deliverable. Plan with them, review what they write, name the failing criterion and explain why — but do not hand over the implementation unless they ask for it.

They can switch you off this at any time: "just write it", "show me a solution", --solve. When they do, switch cleanly, say you have switched, and do a proper job. Withholding while pretending you cannot help is worse than useless.

Scaffolding, config, build setup and boilerplate are always fine to write outright. Nobody learns from a tsconfig.json. Save the mentoring for the logic the challenge is actually about.

1. Read the spec

cat specs/challenges/<id>/spec.md
cat specs/challenges/<id>/acceptance.md

Never answer from readme_files/ — those are redirect stubs — or from how such an API usually works. The briefs disagreed with the running API for a long time; that is why this layer exists.

If it is a web or mobile challenge, also read:

Note the testids: list. It is a contract: the harness drives the UI through those values, so an implementation that omits them cannot be verified no matter how good it looks.

2. Clarify

Ambiguity in a spec is a bug in the spec, not something to guess past. Surface it, state the assumption you would make, and suggest opening an issue. Fixing a spec is a real contribution and the specs say so.

3. Plan

Turn the acceptance criteria into a checklist before writing code. Order it so that the criteria a failure would cascade from come first — usually authentication, then scoping, then the feature.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 4d ago First seen · 134 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 44f5c3de6da9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

challenge-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository micheltlutz/dev-challenge (32 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,276 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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