work

work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for starting a task in a separate Git worktree, which is another working directory connected to the same repository. It creates an isolated branch and follows the repository's existing naming and layout conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a new task with `/work`, optionally giving it a short name. It helps inspect the repository conventions, create the worktree, and begin from the appropriate default branch.
Why use it?
It keeps the current checkout untouched while work is in progress. This reduces interference with other changes and gives the task its own branch and files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when starting a new task with /work, optionally giving it a short name. It helps inspect the repository conventions, create the worktree, and begin from the appropriate default branch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outthislife/brooklyn-skills/work
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.

Any agent
npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outthislife/brooklyn-skills/work/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/outthislife/brooklyn-skills/work)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outthislife/brooklyn-skills/work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outthislife/brooklyn-skills/work/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for work

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outthislife/brooklyn-skills/work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outthislife/brooklyn-skills/work.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,511 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.01511
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00604
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00151

Measured 14d ago against content hash 40725066ae19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 14d 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/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/work

/work [slug] is a declaration for this task: "spin up a dedicated worktree and do the work there." It applies to what the user is starting right now — it is not a standing rule that all work always happens in worktrees.

When invoked:

  1. Look at what the repo already does, and copy it.
  2. Create the worktree + branch and cd into it.
  3. Do the requested work there.

Work aimed at an issue ("if it's open and reproducible")

Do these in order before writing any fix:

  1. Load the repo's own gate skill first. If the repo has a deployment or brain skill (a <prefix>-repo skill, a triage/claim system), load it before searching. Its per-issue gates (claim, overlap check, side-effect screen, risk title, auto-merge classifier) apply to a single /work fix as much as to a sweep. Skipping them because the request said "/work" rather than "triage" is the failure: the PR ships without the risk and side-effect sections she expects, and can duplicate her own open PR.
  2. Find the issue. Search open and closed issues with several phrasings (gh issue list --state all --search "<q>"), plus in:title variants. A closed issue with a close-by-PR may already cover it. Check that before you call a newer report a duplicate.
  3. Look for a PR that already fixes it. Search with gh pr list --state all --search "<issue#>" and with keywords. Drafts count: a contributor can park a finished fix as a draft because of an open-PR cap. If a complete fix exists, salvage it (cherry-pick the commit so authorship is kept) instead of writing a parallel one. Check her own open PRs too (gh pr list --author @me --state open --json number,title,files,mergeable,autoMergeRequest), not only contributors': an armed-but-CONFLICTING PR of hers on the same function is live work. Fold both into ONE combined PR that supersedes them (cherry-pick what applies, port the rest by hand onto main's current file layout, keep every Co-authored-by), then disarm (gh pr merge N --disable-auto) and close the sources with a comment linking the replacement.
  4. Prove it red on the base. Apply only the tests first (gh pr diff <N> > f.diff && git apply --include='tests/*' f.diff), run them, and see them fail. Then remove the file and git cherry-pick the real commit, so the test file isn't left as an untracked conflict.
  5. Reproduce the user-visible path end to end. Run it on a detached base worktree and on the branch, and keep both outputs as before/after evidence for the PR body.
  6. Re-run any failures on the base worktree before calling them unrelated. "Fails identically on untouched base" is the claim to report.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 14d ago Changed · +40 lines 40725066ae19
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines dc8e451e347d
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines 986b3f03e162
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 9362edbeadac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills (209 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,511 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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