sw-adopt

sw-adopt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Obsidian-Owl/specwright. It costs 27 tokens per session (882 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow action for taking ownership of an existing piece of work in the current checkout, the directory containing the active branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
It attaches the selected work to the current workspace when ownership and branch checks pass, or explains why adoption was blocked.
Why use it?
It prevents two workspaces from unknowingly claiming the same work and checks for stale sessions or branch mismatches.

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/obsidian-owl/specwright/sw-adopt
Any agent
npx skills add Obsidian-Owl/specwright --skill sw-adopt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Obsidian-Owl/specwright

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for sw-adopt

README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 882 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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00882
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00088

Measured 5d ago against content hash 50c83dac0c5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sw-adopt 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 5d 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.

core/skills/sw-adopt/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Specwright Adopt

Goal

Attach an existing work to the current worktree without creating split-brain ownership. This skill attaches only the current worktree session.

Inputs

  • target work ID from the argument, or the current worktree session's attachedWorkId when re-adopting the already-selected work
  • {worktreeStateRoot}/session.json for the current worktree
  • {repoStateRoot}/work/{workId}/workflow.json
  • repo-wide session.json files discovered via git worktree list --porcelain

Outputs

  • updated {worktreeStateRoot}/session.json for the current worktree only
  • updated selected work workflow.json.attachment pointing at the current worktree when adoption succeeds
  • concise outcome explaining whether the work was adopted, blocked by a live owner, or blocked by branch mismatch

Constraints

Scope (LOW freedom):

  • /sw-adopt is the explicit same-work adoption flow. It must not silently run during /sw-design, /sw-plan, /sw-build, /sw-verify, or /sw-ship.
  • /sw-adopt never rewrites another worktree's session.json.
  • Subordinate sessions must not run /sw-adopt.

Target resolution (LOW freedom):

  • Resolve the target work from the argument first, then the current worktree's session.json.attachedWorkId as a fallback.
  • Validate that the target work exists under {repoStateRoot}/work/{workId}.
  • If no target work resolves, STOP and tell the operator to pass a work ID or run /sw-design.

Ownership validation (LOW freedom):

  • Use live-versus-dead session state as the adoption authority.
  • Inspect repo-wide session.json files to determine live-versus-dead session state for the target work.
  • Treat live top-level sessions as authoritative owners.
  • Treat dead top-level sessions as stale attachments that may be superseded.
  • Treat subordinate sessions as non-owners even when they reference the same workId.
  • If another live top-level worktree owns the target work, STOP and tell the operator to continue there or make that owner stale first. /sw-adopt does not perform remote session surgery.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 5d ago First seen · 95 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 50c83dac0c5d

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sw-adopt is a skill published in the GitHub repository Obsidian-Owl/specwright (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 882 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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