value-stream-mapping

value-stream-mapping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paruff/uFawkesAI. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,839 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for mapping each stage from a product idea to delivered user value, so teams can see where work is delayed. It focuses on bottlenecks that can hide the benefits of faster AI-assisted coding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine high lead time, low deployment frequency, or stalled DORA metrics and decide what delivery process or platform work to improve.
Why use it?
It helps explain why coding gets faster while overall delivery remains slow. The map points investment toward delays in testing, security reviews, deployment, or other downstream work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to examine high lead time, low deployment frequency, or stalled DORA metrics and decide what delivery process or platform work to improve.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paruff/ufawkesai/value-stream-mapping
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 paruff/uFawkesAI --skill value-stream-mapping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paruff/uFawkesAI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,839 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 $0.00069 $0.01839
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00920
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00184

Measured 8d ago against content hash ef4637b392e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

value-stream-mapping 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 8d 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.

.agents/skills/value-stream-mapping/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Value Stream Mapping

Load trigger: "load value-stream-mapping skill" > DORA: AI Capability 2 (Healthy data ecosystems) + AI Capability 7 (Quality internal platforms) Token cost: Medium Prerequisite: At least one dora-measurement snapshot must exist.

Purpose

Identify which stage of the product delivery value stream is absorbing the productivity gains from AI assistance — so investment goes to clearing the actual bottleneck, not the assumed one.

DORA ROI 2026: "Individual productivity gains from AI are often absorbed by downstream disorder — gains in coding speed are swallowed by bottlenecks in testing, security reviews, and complex deployment processes." VSM makes the downstream disorder visible.

Scope boundary: This skill maps the product value stream (idea → user value). The platform value stream (platform change → fawkes improvement → user benefit) is handled by fawkes/.agents/skills/value-stream-mapping/ when that skill is written.

When to Use

Trigger Signal
Lead time high despite fast coding lead_time_p50_hours > 24hrs but deployment_frequency_per_week < 1
DORA metrics plateau Two consecutive monthly snapshots show no improvement
AI tool adoption not improving throughput opencode sessions frequent but deploy frequency unchanged
Planning a major capability Before investing in a new stack (uFawkesDevX, uFawkesDORA)
Measure agent files capability-improvement issues >2 issues in same area in one quarter

The Seven Value Stream Stages

Map each stage for the product being built. Time estimates come from DORA measurement data where available; direct observation otherwise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 8d ago First seen · 154 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A ef4637b392e7

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value-stream-mapping is a skill published in the GitHub repository paruff/uFawkesAI (2 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,839 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 2026-09-03.

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