project-workflow

A step-by-step work process for an AI coding assistant. It covers investigating the task, planning, writing a specification, testing, coding, checking the result, reviewing it, and committing the changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide complete feature work from the initial gap analysis through the final commit, including tests, specifications, quality checks, and review.
Why use it?
It prevents the assistant from starting implementation without understanding the task or checking its work. It also defines when outside reviewers should assess important milestones.

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/netdata/ai-viewer/project-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add netdata/ai-viewer --skill project-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netdata/ai-viewer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,991 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 $0.00072 $0.03991
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01996
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00798
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00399

Measured yesterday against content hash 1bd33323712e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 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.

.agents/skills/project-workflow/SKILL.md · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow

Purpose

This skill is the assistant's runtime checklist. The contract lives in AGENTS.md (the "Three Reviewer Gates" section is the operating model); the durable spec lives in .agents/sow/specs/workflow.md; this file is the operational pattern the assistant follows every time. Load it at the start of every meaningful task. If the assistant ever notices it has started writing code without consulting this skill, stop and restart from the top.

Roles

Role Model Job
CTO (master assistant) me Research, decide, update specs, write tests, implement code, run gates, verify, commit, and report.
Helper subagents optional Bounded read-only investigation or summarization when it saves context/time. They are not the default implementation path.
External reviewers glm, minimax, kimi, mimo, deepseek, qwen Milestone quality gates for gap analysis, implementation plan, and implementation on meaningful chunks. They do not design or implement the work.

The CTO owns the work. External reviewers are acceptance gates, not the normal work engine. Do not run reviewers during ordinary exploration or before the CTO has personally completed the current stage artifact. Before any external reviewer invocation, load .agents/skills/project-second-opinions/SKILL.md, complete its reviewer-readiness checklist, and record the evidence in the SOW or work ledger.

Non-negotiable review rule: every review is open-ended over the whole milestone/gate scope. After a real P0/P1/P2 reviewer finding, verify the cited class and count all occurrences during claim verification, then perform a fresh open-ended review of the entire milestone from scratch before any rerun. A class-only review is biased and turns reviewers into discovery scouts.

The Cycle (Invariant Order)

1. Re-orient       →  read SOWs, specs, skills
2. Gap             →  analyze what must be true for the goal to be satisfied
3. Gap Review      →  reviewers vote NOTHING MORE CAN BE DONE
4. Plan            →  write the implementation plan
5. Plan Review     →  reviewers vote READY FOR IMPLEMENTATION
6. Spec            →  update or create specs FIRST
7. Test            →  write failing tests against the new spec
8. Code            →  CTO implements directly; make tests pass
9. Gates           →  run every automated quality gate locally
10. Impl Review    →  reviewers vote PRODUCTION GRADE
11. Discipline     →  run the Discipline Checklist
12. Commit         →  one commit per logical step; spec + tests + code + docs together

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 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 · 329 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 1bd33323712e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository netdata/ai-viewer (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 3,991 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 2026-08-31.

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