maestro-work

maestro-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ReinaMacCredy/maestro. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding workflow for implementing one agreed change by writing a test first, making the smallest necessary edit, and recording proof that the test checks the intended failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign coding work with clear ownership, allowed files, exclusions, stop conditions, and evidence requirements, including work split between agents.
Why use it?
It keeps work within the approved scope and makes unclear requirements or unauthorized expansion visible before code is changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assign coding work with clear ownership, allowed files, exclusions, stop conditions, and evidence requirements, including work split between agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reinamaccredy/maestro/maestro-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 ReinaMacCredy/maestro --skill maestro-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ReinaMacCredy/maestro

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,562 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 $0.00034 $0.02562
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01281
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00256

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1f439e910860, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maestro-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.

src/plugins/skills/maestro-work/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

maestro-work

Use for one accepted implementation unit. Keep the change inside the work item's acceptance and authority. If the scope is unclear or must expand, stop and return to maestro-design.

Tier first, recon second

Decide the tier from the request alone, before reading bundle files, the store, or the rest of this skill (maestro-bundle tier rule):

  • quickfix: a one-sentence diff with no Full trigger. Do it directly, verify inline with the smallest check that can falsify it, no work item, no test demanded, none of the machinery below.
  • Light: one session, one branch, acceptance in a sentence. maestro work add|start|done is the whole record. Verify the changed surface inline; a regression test is written only for a real bug being fixed, never as ceremony: it reproduces the bug where it shows and lands with the fix, in the ordinary bugfix order, not through a red-green loop, and no TDD skill is loaded for it. No SPEC, no red list.
  • Full: an open bundle. Preconditions before any edit: the user's explicit request to implement or fix this scope, and a SPEC whose Scope names this work; its Red tests, when present, are the only tests written. A SPEC that predates the requested scope (post-ship review findings, hardening follow-ups) counts as missing: return to maestro-design first. A throwaway prototype not yet approved to port is maestro-explore's scope: fix it there without opening production work.

Before writing code, read any language-convention notes the user's setup provides for the language being edited. Repository conventions override them.

Dispatch

When work is handed to a lane (a Herdr pane in the room, or a sub-agent where no room exists), send this envelope:

Objective: <observable outcome>
Owned scope: <paths or responsibility>
Excluded scope: <explicit non-goals>
Mutation: <no-write | write-bounded: paths>
Stop condition: <done or blocked boundary>
Lane: scout | decision | delivery | challenge | shadow
Evidence required: <proof and layer>

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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 Changed · +8 lines 1f439e910860
  2. 7d ago Changed · +85 lines · +6 tokens per session b0c84b92597a
  3. 12d ago First seen · 115 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A f59093e0f117

Subscribe to this mod's changes

maestro-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository ReinaMacCredy/maestro (232 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,562 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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