using-agent-skills

using-agent-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Plazmodium/odin-workflow. It costs 21 tokens per session (740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for choosing and applying the right coding-agent skill for each stage of work. It sets shared rules for planning, implementation, verification, and keeping the scope clear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a task, when requirements change, or when deciding whether work needs planning, coding, testing, review, or release steps.
Why use it?
It prevents the agent from using the wrong process or declaring work complete without evidence such as tests, type checks, or a build result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it at the start of a task, when requirements change, or when deciding whether work needs planning, coding, testing, review, or release steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plazmodium/odin-workflow/using-agent-skills
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 Plazmodium/odin-workflow --skill using-agent-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Plazmodium/odin-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 740 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 $0.00021 $0.00740
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00074

Measured 3d ago against content hash 594c5dd27e79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-agent-skills 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 3d 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/workflow/using-agent-skills/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

using-agent-skills

Use skills as workflows, not reference material. Load only the skills needed for the current phase, then produce evidence before calling work complete.

Inspired by Addy Osmani's Agent Skills article: process over prose, anti-rationalization, verification, progressive disclosure, and scope discipline.

When To Use

  • At the start of a session or slash command.
  • When deciding which lifecycle workflow applies.
  • When the task is expanding beyond the user's request.

Workflow

  1. Classify the work: define, plan, build, verify, review, simplify, or ship.
  2. Load the smallest relevant skill set for that phase.
  3. Surface important assumptions before acting.
  4. Stop and ask when requirements conflict or missing information materially changes the result.
  5. Push back when a request would reduce safety, correctness, maintainability, or reviewability.
  6. Prefer the boring, obvious solution.
  7. Touch only what the user asked you to touch.
  8. End with evidence: tests, typecheck, build, runtime trace, review findings, or a clear explanation of what was not verified.

Skill Router

Situation Load
Vague idea idea-refine
Feature or significant change spec-driven-development
Need implementable steps planning-and-task-breakdown
Multi-file change incremental-implementation
Behavior change or bug fix test-driven-development
Framework/library uncertainty source-driven-development
Poor output quality or stale context context-engineering
High stakes or unfamiliar code doubt-driven-development
User-facing UI frontend-ui-engineering
API or boundary design api-and-interface-design
Browser runtime behavior browser-testing-with-devtools
Broken build/test/runtime debugging-and-error-recovery
Pre-merge review code-review-and-quality
Complex or clever code code-simplification
Trust boundary, auth, secrets, external input security-and-hardening
Performance target or regression performance-optimization
VCS hygiene git-workflow-and-versioning
Pipeline/deploy automation ci-cd-and-automation
Removing or migrating old behavior deprecation-and-migration
Architecture or API decision documentation-and-adrs
Production launch shipping-and-launch

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 3d ago First seen · 78 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 594c5dd27e79

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using-agent-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository Plazmodium/odin-workflow (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 740 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 2026-09-03.

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