work-autonomously

work-autonomously is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OdinMB/ops-workflow. It costs 30 tokens per session (686 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule set for coding commands and skills that run without waiting for the user. It records decisions, skipped work, questions, and follow-up items for later review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for background or batch tasks that should keep moving, record uncertain choices in a follow-up file, and make only local changes.
Why use it?
It lets unattended work continue while preserving places where human judgment is needed, and it prevents automatic deletion or remote pushes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ops plugin — 9 skills, 10 commands, 5 agents shipped together

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/odinmb/ops-workflow/work-autonomously
Any agent
npx skills add OdinMB/ops-workflow --skill work-autonomously
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OdinMB/ops-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 10 commands, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for work-autonomously

README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 686 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 $0.00030 $0.00686
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00343
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00069

Measured 3d ago against content hash d97de5bc9f08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-autonomously 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 3d 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/work-autonomously/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous Conventions

Rules for commands and skills that run without user input (e.g., /ops:get-to-work, /ops:batch-execute). The goal is to keep moving and defer human judgment to a structured follow-up review.

Core Rules

  1. Never stop for user input. Record questions and move on.
  2. Never delete files. Record intended deletions in the follow-up file.
  3. Never push to remote. Only local branches and commits.
  4. When uncertain, make a sensible choice and move on. Record your reasoning and alternatives in the follow-up file so the user can review. Only skip when the wrong choice could have truly bad consequences (data loss, security, breaking external contracts). Getting work done with transparent doubts beats a slightly lower chance of mistakes.

Follow-Up File

Create a follow-up .md file in the project's plans directory (.plans/ or plans/, whichever the project uses) at the start of the process. It captures everything that needs human review afterward.

Required sections

## Controversial Decisions
Items where the agent made a judgment call the user should review.

## Skipped Items
Opportunities identified but not acted on, with reasons.

## User Input Needed
Questions that blocked progress on specific items.

## Files to Delete
Files that should be removed (agent does not delete files autonomously).

## Implementation Issues
Problems encountered during execution.

## Borderline Insights
Findings that might warrant persisting to the project's knowledge system (e.g., MEMORY.md, CLAUDE.md, or equivalent) but the agent wasn't confident enough to add directly. User should review and decide whether to keep or discard.

## Suggested Follow-Up Work
Potential new work items that emerged during execution but the agent wasn't confident enough to add directly (e.g., to a backlog, TODO list, or issue tracker). User should review and decide whether to act on or discard.

Not every section will be used by every command — include the ones that are relevant.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 3d ago First seen · 64 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A d97de5bc9f08

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work-autonomously is a skill published in the GitHub repository OdinMB/ops-workflow (7 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 686 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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