autonomous-work

autonomous-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oleg494/coding-kit. It costs 118 tokens per session (2,379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for carrying out useful in-scope work when the user gives broad permission to act independently. It selects work, performs it, verifies the result, records what happened, and stops when no useful work remains.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for requests such as “do useful work,” “keep going,” or “choose what matters,” rather than for a specific bug fix or other bounded task.
Why use it?
It removes the need for the user to specify every small next step while keeping existing limits and read-only rules in place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/tools/autonomous.py --workspace PATH --mission TEXT \.

Good fit Use it for requests such as “do useful work,” “keep going,” or “choose what matters,” rather than for a specific bug fix or other bounded task.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oleg494/coding-kit
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oleg494/coding-kit/autonomous-work

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,379 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00118 $0.02379
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01189
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00476
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00238

Measured today against content hash 8522311cbbdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autonomous-work 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 today.

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/autonomous-work/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous Work

Broad authorization to choose and continue useful work — executed without manufacturing a task for the user and without pretending completion.

Activation & scope

  • Activates on broad authorization: "do useful work", "pick what matters", "keep going without asking", "работай сам", "делай что полезно". The user has authorized selection and continuation, not a specific task list.
  • Bounded requests are unchanged: "fix this bug", "review this PR", "add this flag" keep their existing scope. Autonomous work adds no scope to a request that already names its scope.
  • Opt-in, not a mode override: this skill is not always-on, and it does not replace STRICT_AUDIT or EXPLORATORY_PROTOTYPE. Under a read-only or strict-audit instruction, autonomy selects only read-only/audit work; it never upgrades permissions, and it never treats autonomy as a reason to weaken a constraint the user or host set.
  • If no useful in-scope work remains, say so plainly and stop. Idle is an honest outcome; invented work is not.

Core loop

SELECT ──→ DO ──→ VERIFY ──→ RECORD ──→ NEXT
   │        │        │           │         │
   ▼        ▼        ▼           ▼         ▼
evidence  smallest  observed   durable   continue
-backed   change    result     evidence  without ceremony
objective
  1. Select the highest-value objective that is in scope and backed by evidence (failing test, reported symptom, explicit TODO, uncovered contract, known defect). Say in one line why it is the next thing.
  2. Do the smallest correct change that closes it — normal method skills still apply (plan → TDD → implement → verify → report).
  3. Verify by observation: run the specific check, scenario, or command that covers the change. Unverified work is not a completed objective.
  4. Record the evidence and the resulting state durably (file, test, log, changelog, handoff) so a later session can resume without re-deriving it.
  5. Next: pick the next objective and continue. Do not ask permission for each step once broad authorization is given.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. today First seen · 190 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 8522311cbbdc

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autonomous-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository oleg494/coding-kit (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,379 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-09.