coven-parallel-work

coven-parallel-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenCoven/coven. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,013 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A shared-work protocol for multiple coding agents working in the same Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to claim work, create separate worktrees, install hooks, and coordinate parallel repository changes across different agent tools.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from overwriting one another's changes or colliding while using shared branches and files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

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/opencoven/coven/coven-parallel-work
Any agent
npx skills add OpenCoven/coven --skill coven-parallel-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/coven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,013 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 $0.00068 $0.02013
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01007
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00201

Measured 6d ago against content hash c58c18a013a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coven-parallel-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 6d 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/coven-parallel-work/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coven Parallel Work Protocol — OpenClaw entry point

What this is

The Coven Parallel Work Protocol is a portable, harness-agnostic contract for safely running multiple agents on the same git repo on the same machine. It works for Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, Nova, and any future runtime — anyone who runs git.

This skill file is the OpenClaw familiar's entry point: it tells you when to use the protocol from inside an OpenClaw session, the local prototype tooling available, and the daily workflow.

For the full spec (harness-agnostic, no OpenClaw assumptions), read PROTOCOL.md — that's the contract any conforming implementation must respect.

Where this lives

  • Spec: PROTOCOL.md (in this directory; portable, will move upstream)
  • Reference prototype: POSIX-shell scripts in ~/.openclaw/workspace/bin/cv-wt, cv-claim and hook templates in this directory's hooks/
  • Canonical implementation (target): OpenCoven/coven — surfaced eventually as coven wt, coven claim, coven hooks install. Not yet built. Tracked upstream in issue #167.
  • This skill: how an OpenClaw familiar uses the protocol day-to-day

The local prototype is intentionally a prototype. It's working code that respects the spec, sized to fit one user's setup. Once the canonical Coven implementation lands, this skill will redirect to it and the prototype scripts will become a thin shim or get retired.

When to apply

Use the protocol when:

  • A repo is touched by 2+ concurrent agents (or agent + human, or long-lived background bots like release-bumpers).
  • You've seen any of: HEAD reset out from under you, stash auto-applied someone else's WIP, force-push collisions, a bot direct-merging to main mid-PR, untracked files leaking between sessions.
  • A new Coven user is setting up shared agents on one workspace.

If only one agent ever touches a repo, you don't need the protocol. Don't over-apply.

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 215 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A c58c18a013a6

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coven-parallel-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (46 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,013 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.