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Workspine

A repository-based workflow for AI-assisted software development that moves from a written specification to implementation and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize a project workspace, plan and execute milestones, verify changes, audit progress, and complete or start new milestones.
Why use it?
It gives development work a repeatable structure and keeps plans, phases, research, and checks in the project itself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

57 2d ago A scan 24 tokens original MIT
View the source file PatrickSys/workspine
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/patricksys/workspine/distilled
Any agent
npx skills add PatrickSys/workspine --skill distilled
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PatrickSys/workspine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 869 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 $0.00024 $0.00869
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00087

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8b82be56b1fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Workspine 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 2d 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.

distilled/SKILL.md · 90 lines

What it actually says

init -> [plan -> execute -> verify] x N phases -> done

Read only the file for the phase you are in:

  • new-project: workflows/new-project.md
  • plan: workflows/plan.md
  • execute: workflows/execute.md
  • verify: workflows/verify.md
  • audit-milestone: workflows/audit-milestone.md
  • complete-milestone: workflows/complete-milestone.md
  • new-milestone: workflows/new-milestone.md
  • quick: workflows/quick.md

<project_structure> Workspine uses .work/ as the durable workspace. Legacy .planning/ workspaces are still read and supported.

.work/
  SPEC.md
  ROADMAP.md
  config.json
  templates/
  phases/
  research/

</project_structure>

npx -y workspine init
npx -y workspine init --tools claude
npx -y workspine init --tools codex
npx -y workspine init --tools agents

Behavior:

  • Always: generates open-standard skills at .agents/skills/work-*/SKILL.md by embedding distilled/workflows/*.md, plus repo-local deterministic helpers at .work/bin/gsdd.mjs (or .planning/bin/gsdd.mjs in legacy workspaces).
  • Optional: generates tool adapters (root AGENTS.md, Claude .claude/skills + .claude/commands alias + .claude/agents, OpenCode .opencode/commands + .opencode/agents, Codex CLI .codex/agents/work-plan-checker.toml).
  • Codex CLI: uses the portable skill entry surface and the generated .codex/agents/ checker/approach-explorer agents; it does not use .codex/AGENTS.md as the primary integration path.
  • Root AGENTS.md is only written when explicitly requested (so we do not pollute existing user governance).

Core:

  • .work/templates/spec.md -> .work/SPEC.md
  • .work/templates/roadmap.md -> .work/ROADMAP.md

Research:

  • .work/templates/research/*.md -> .work/research/*.md

Brownfield codebase mapping:

  • .work/templates/codebase/*.md -> .work/codebase/*.md
Files

What ships with it

48 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. 2d ago First seen · 90 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 8b82be56b1fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Workspine is a skill published in the GitHub repository PatrickSys/workspine (57 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 869 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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