work

work is a skill for Claude Code from mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow. It costs 0 tokens per session (8,972 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for taking a tracker ticket—an issue or task reference—through implementation in an isolated Git worktree and opening a pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to normalize a ticket, optionally discuss vague work interactively, follow the project’s validation process, and stop after opening a pull request.
Why use it?
They define the checks and workflow needed to turn a ticket into reviewable code without mixing it with other work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the csw plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use them to normalize a ticket, optionally discuss vague work interactively, follow the project’s validation process, and stop after opening a pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow/work
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 mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow --skill work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install csw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow/work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow/work.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,972 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.
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 $0.00000 $0.08972
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.04486
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01794
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00897

Measured today against content hash 094a7e39ebb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 today.

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/work/SKILL.md · 663 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 663 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work a ticket to a pull request

Announce at start: "Using csw:work to take to a pull request." Where the invocation carried an editorial rider — Step 1 — echo it verbatim on that same line: — rider: "<what they wrote>".

Invocation: $ARGUMENTS

Step 0: Read the config

csw-config json
csw-config path

If csw-config path prints nothing, this repo has no .claude/csw.json. Say so, show the defaults you are about to use, and ask whether to continue or write a config first. Do not silently guess a validate command.

Step 1: Resolve the ticket, the modifier, and the rider

The first token of the invocation is the ticket reference:

csw-ticket normalize "<the first token of the invocation>"

If the invocation carried no reference, ask which ticket. Do not pick one.

If normalisation exits non-zero, report its message and stop — a mistyped reference is exactly the failure this command exists to prevent.

The modifier, and then the rider

Split what is left on whitespace and consume the known modifier keywords first. interactive is the only one this skill defines:

  • interactive — run superpowers:brainstorming against the ticket before the Step 5 chain. Surface the questions and wait for the answers. Do not run unattended. This is the flavour someone reaches for when the ticket is vague, or when the approach has more than one defensible shape; answering your own questions is exactly the thing it exists to prevent.
  • No modifier — autonomous, exactly as the rest of this skill describes. Brainstorming is skipped because the ticket is the agreed brief.

interactive changes only how the work is planned. Steps 6 through 9 are untouched: the same validation, the same gates, the same pull request, the same hard stop. An interactive run still ends at an open pull request and still never merges.

Then read whatever is still left over. csw:merge parses its own invocation the same way — one grammar, both skills — and the reading is by word count:

Read the full file on GitHub · 663 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. today Changed · +343 lines 094a7e39ebb8
  2. 8d ago First seen · 320 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8247d51ad0b6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 8,972 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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