enforce-workflow-off

enforce-workflow-off is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirecom/agents. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session setting that suspends the usual workflow and worktree enforcement rules for the current coding session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it only when explicitly invoked to disable the applicable workflow or worktree checks for that session.
Why use it?
It provides an emergency escape route when those rules prevent the requested work from proceeding.

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/nirecom/agents/enforce-workflow-off
Any agent
npx skills add nirecom/agents --skill enforce-workflow-off
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirecom/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,043 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 $0.00024 $0.01043
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00104

Measured 4d ago against content hash e0597ade3c9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

enforce-workflow-off 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.

skills/enforce-workflow-off/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The session-scoped escape hatch. Use only as a last resort, for the cases rules/workflow-off.md names; that rule owns the trigger, this skill owns the procedure.

When the user invoked this skill

Generate a 1-line reason from the current context describing the intended action, then run:

echo "<<WORKFLOW_ENFORCE_WORKFLOW_OFF_EMERGENCY: [{category}] {reason}>>"

Explicit user invocation IS the human decision — it carries the same trust as the EMERGENCY escape hatch, so the Phase1 clearance examination is deliberately bypassed here (#1780). The "ask" permission still fires a user confirmation dialog; the activation is still recorded in the supervisor audit trail as an escape_hatch_event. Never emit this sentinel on your own initiative — only when the user invoked this skill. Provenance is recorded independently of this instruction: typing /enforce-workflow-off stamps the audit record provenance=user_skill_invocation for either target this skill covers, any other route — and any invocation record that cannot be verified and consumed — stamps provenance=unattributed (which means "not provably user-invoked", not "misused").

Use bash "$AGENTS_CONFIG_DIR/bin/request-off-clearance" instead when YOU (not the user) need an OFF departure; it mints the clearance the non-emergency sentinel below requires.

Sentinels

Command Permission Effect
the clearance-gated standard WORKFLOW_ENFORCE_WORKFLOW_OFF form — never emitted by this skill; see rules/workflow-off.md ask Creates ${sid}.workflow-off; suspends workflow enforcement (and, subsumed, worktree enforcement)
echo "<<WORKFLOW_ENFORCE_WORKFLOW_OFF_EMERGENCY: [{category}] {reason}>>" ask Same marker, but bypasses the Phase1 clearance examination
echo "<<WORKFLOW_ENFORCE_WORKFLOW_ON: {reason}>>" allow (auto-approved) Removes the marker; restores enforcement
echo "<<WORKFLOW_ENFORCE_WORKTREE_OFF: {reason}>>" ask Creates ${sid}.worktree-off; lifts only enforce-worktree.js
echo "<<WORKFLOW_ENFORCE_WORKTREE_ON: {reason}>>" allow (auto-approved) Removes that marker; worktree enforcement restored

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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 · 54 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A e0597ade3c9a

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enforce-workflow-off is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirecom/agents (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,043 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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