autonomous-workflow

autonomous-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from mthines/agent-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (4,201 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated workflow for taking a software task from planning through implementation, testing, quality checks, and delivery in an isolated Git worktree.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build features, run tests and quality checks, apply optional development practices, and prepare a tested pull request.
Why use it?
It organizes the full development process into stages with checks between them, reducing the need to coordinate each step manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash scripts/sync-symlinks.sh --aw.

Part of the mthines-agent-skills plugin — 49 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to build features, run tests and quality checks, apply optional development practices, and prepare a tested pull request.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mthines/agent-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mthines/agent-skills/autonomous-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mthines-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,201 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: 16 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 14
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 155
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 156
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 207
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 261
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 14
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 155
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 156
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 207
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 261
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 84
    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 Excessive Agency · line 156
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 230
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 258
    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 Agent Snooping · line 374
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 386
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00086 $0.04201
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.01680
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00840
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00420

Measured 6d ago against content hash 53fdf7c63c9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autonomous-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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (install.sh, scripts/run-checks.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/workflow/autonomous-workflow/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous Workflow

Phase-based autonomous feature development: each phase has a gate that must pass before the next. This file is an index; procedures live in rules/*.md and load on demand.

Contents

Before Starting Any Work

Step 1: Detect Workflow Mode (MANDATORY)

Complexity is the primary signal. File count is the tie-breaker. Walk these questions in order — the first yes selects Full Mode:

# Question If yes → If no →
1 Is this task architectural / cross-cutting / does it require significant design decisions? Full go to next
2 Does the task involve unfamiliar code or domains the agent hasn't worked in before, or is the cause or location not yet known — an investigation rather than a known edit? Full go to next
3 Is the change touching 4+ files OR 2+ packages? Full go to next
4 Is the change 2–3 files, OR any non-trivial logic change? Lite Micro
Tier Files / shape Artifacts Planning Companions
Full complex / 4+ files / unfamiliar / cause or location unknown Required aw writes a short plan.md brief, works to its checks, then a fresh-eyes review required ones; the rest at judgment
Lite 2–3 files, or 1 file carrying non-trivial logic None in-conversation brief per signal
Micro 1 file and purely mechanical (typo, copy, bump, string change) None in-conversation brief, no planning none (docs if drift)

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 lines

Files

What ships with it

53 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. 6d ago Changed 53fdf7c63c9f
  2. 15d ago Changed · +37 lines 0b282e578078
  3. 16d ago Changed · -249 lines · -62 tokens per session a295f85d7aba
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines a0f513ac4d50
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +6 tokens per session b4689d021d91
  6. 1mo ago Changed 69bcd27e5be0
  7. 2mo ago Changed · +15 lines ace8998bab3e
  8. 2mo ago Changed · +19 lines · +38 tokens per session bc006a09cd8a
  9. 2mo ago Changed · +2 lines 7d4053da06a3
  10. 2mo ago First seen · 402 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 79066500e1ce

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autonomous-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository mthines/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 4,201 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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