workflow-init

workflow-init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirecom/agents. It costs 14 tokens per session (3,249 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow entry point that examines issue context and routes a development session to the right process. GitHub issues are requests or records for work in a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting work from GitHub issues, checking their state and labels, and creating the initial workflow context.
Why use it?
It reduces manual setup by deciding which workflow applies and recording the session context.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,249 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 $0.00014 $0.03249
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01625
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00650
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00325

Measured yesterday against content hash d331eaec165d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-init 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/filter-init-candidates.sh, scripts/path-a-label-and-board.sh), 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-init/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IMPORTANT: Interactive session required. Hard-fail in non-interactive contexts (claude -p, /loop, subagents).

Purpose

First step of every workflow session. Routes on GH issue context: Path A (#N + intent:clarified) skips interview; Path B (#N, no label) pre-fills interview; Path C (no #N) runs full interview and auto-creates a tracking issue.

Procedure

Read rules/github-issues.md before WI-2 — on-demand-only, never auto-injected; the meta label, intent:clarified, closes_issues insertion order, and the sub-issue open-state gate all come from it.

Step WI-1 — Resolve <PLANS_DIR>

Canonical: skills/_shared/resolve-plans-dir.md. Substitute the resolved absolute path for every <PLANS_DIR> placeholder below. Subagent prompts must receive literals — they cannot expand $VAR.

Step WI-2 — Driver loop

The driver (bin/workflow/workflow-init-driver) handles WI-3..WI-9: token detection, gh issue view fetch for each N in ISSUES, CLOSED detection, label extraction, meta classification (meta strip / open sub-issue guard), Aggregate WIP check (all N: all_same / all_none / any_other), route decision, and context.md write. The driver writes the checkpoint and <SID>-context.md directly under PLANS_DIR (outside git repos → ENFORCE_WORKTREE does not apply).

Invocation: node "$AGENTS_CONFIG_DIR/bin/workflow/workflow-init-driver" <raw-tokens> 2>/dev/null (<raw-tokens> = issue number tokens like #15 or #15 #22 — not the full user prompt)

On resume (after ask_user): node "$AGENTS_CONFIG_DIR/bin/workflow/workflow-init-driver" --resume <CHECKPOINT> --answer '<token>'

Read all KEY=VALUE output lines. Dispatch on ACTION=:

ACTION Meaning What to do
invoke Next skill ready Run NEXT_SKILL via Skill tool
done Driver complete Proceed to WI-10; follow PATH_DECISION= at WI-12 (Path C still runs WI-10 onward — no jump)
blocked Unrecoverable Show REASON= + NEXT_HINT= and stop
ask_user User decision needed Percent-decode OPTIONS_DISPLAY= (encoded like QUESTION=), present via AskUserQuestion; re-invoke with --resume <CHECKPOINT> --answer '<token>'
emit_sentinel Driver requests sentinel Emit SENTINEL= via separate Bash call

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday First seen · 102 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A d331eaec165d

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workflow-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirecom/agents (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 3,249 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 2026-09-03.

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