What is ase-meta-workflow?

A generator for agent skills that describe workflows made from ordered steps, parallel steps, sub-agent calls, and other skill calls.

Use it to create skills that orchestrate or chain actions, agents, and existing skills into an automated workflow.

It helps turn a repeated multi-step process into a reusable workflow definition.

ase-meta-workflow — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by rse: A generator for agent skills that describe workflows made…

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/rse/ase/ase-meta-workflow

Any agent

npx skills add rse/ase --skill ase-meta-workflow

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rse/ase

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 8 agents, 5 hooks.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,953 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00077	$0.03953
Opus 5	$0.00039	$0.01976
Sonnet 5	$0.00015	$0.00791
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00395

Measured 5d ago against content hash 67df6fe858ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ase-meta-workflow 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 5d 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.

plugin/skills/ase-meta-workflow/SKILL.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

$ARGUMENTS

References

The following is a reference skill demonstrating the usual layout of a generated workflow skill -- its frontmatter, its ase meta preamble, and the indentation of its <flow>:

IMPORTANT: is authoritative for the usual layout only. The syntax of every control construct is defined exclusively by the Control Flow Constructs section above, and its frontmatter and preamble show the claude flavor only -- the actual frontmatter fields and the actual preamble are dispatched on as defined by the Generated Skill Contract below.
The following is the ASE workflow graph, carrying one <from/> -> <to/> transition per line, where each side is either an ase-xxx-xxx skill or an upper-case logical state (START, SKETCH, APPROACHES, TASK, ARTIFACT, END):

The tells which ASE skill sequences are usually meaningful. It guides the workflow, but it does not restrict it: a workflow may contain arbitrary non-ASE actions, and it may contain ASE transitions the does not list.
The following is the accumulated help of all ASE skills -- the concatenation of every skill's help.md file -- and is the sole source for the options and arguments of every <skill/> invocation (for an ase-xxx-xxx skill) you emit:

Generated Skill Contract

A generated skill is a regular skill of the current agent tool which is independent of the ASE plugin installation path. It therefore MUST strictly follow this contract:

Frontmatter: name: <new-skill-name/> and a description of one to three sentences summarizing the workflow and its trigger phrases.

The remaining frontmatter fields are tool-specific, because every agent tool accepts its own field set and its own allowed-tools grammar, and hence have to be dispatched on :

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 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.

5d ago First seen · 379 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 67df6fe858ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ase-meta-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository rse/ase (47 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 3,953 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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