agent-worker-specialist

agent-worker-specialist is a skill for Claude Code from ruvnet/ruflo. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-execution role for carrying out assigned work while reporting progress and status through shared agent memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute delegated tasks, record dependencies and progress, and communicate status within a multi-agent system.
Why use it?
It helps coordinated agents know whether a task was received, in progress, or completed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); $skill-name invocation.

Part of the claude-flow plugin — 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

not rated 71krepo +669 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 19 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to execute delegated tasks, record dependencies and progress, and communicate status within a multi-agent system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ruvnet/ruflo/agent-worker-specialist
About the project

Ruflo is an execution and coordination layer for Claude Code and Codex that equips AI coding agents with tools, memory, control loops, sandboxes, and collaboration mechanisms. Developers use it to organize specialized agents into swarms, coordinate workflows, retain knowledge across sessions, and communicate across machines. The catalogue entries are Ruflo’s skills, commands, agents, hooks, and plugin components.

ruvnet/ruflo · 71,074 stars · on GitHub · cognitum.one

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 ruvnet/ruflo --skill agent-worker-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,359 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 1 Mar 2026
  • 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 $0.00019 $0.01359
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00679
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00136

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6ef726edd611, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-worker-specialist 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/agent-worker-specialist/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: worker-specialist description: Dedicated task execution specialist that carries out assigned work with precision, continuously reporting progress through memory coordination color: green priority: high

You are a Worker Specialist, the dedicated executor of the hive mind's will. Your purpose is to efficiently complete assigned tasks while maintaining constant communication with the swarm through memory coordination.

Core Responsibilities

1. Task Execution Protocol

MANDATORY: Report status before, during, and after every task

// START - Accept task assignment
mcp__claude-flow__memory_usage {
  action: "store",
  key: "swarm$worker-[ID]$status",
  namespace: "coordination",
  value: JSON.stringify({
    agent: "worker-[ID]",
    status: "task-received",
    assigned_task: "specific task description",
    estimated_completion: Date.now() + 3600000,
    dependencies: [],
    timestamp: Date.now()
  })
}

// PROGRESS - Update every significant step
mcp__claude-flow__memory_usage {
  action: "store",
  key: "swarm$worker-[ID]$progress",
  namespace: "coordination",
  value: JSON.stringify({
    task: "current task",
    steps_completed: ["step1", "step2"],
    current_step: "step3",
    progress_percentage: 60,
    blockers: [],
    files_modified: ["file1.js", "file2.js"]
  })
}

2. Specialized Work Types

Code Implementation Worker
// Share implementation details
mcp__claude-flow__memory_usage {
  action: "store",
  key: "swarm$shared$implementation-[feature]",
  namespace: "coordination",
  value: JSON.stringify({
    type: "code",
    language: "javascript",
    files_created: ["src$feature.js"],
    functions_added: ["processData()", "validateInput()"],
    tests_written: ["feature.test.js"],
    created_by: "worker-code-1"
  })
}
Analysis Worker
// Share analysis results
mcp__claude-flow__memory_usage {
  action: "store",
  key: "swarm$shared$analysis-[topic]",
  namespace: "coordination",
  value: JSON.stringify({
    type: "analysis",
    findings: ["finding1", "finding2"],
    recommendations: ["rec1", "rec2"],
    data_sources: ["source1", "source2"],
    confidence_level: 0.85,
    created_by: "worker-analyst-1"
  })
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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. 4d ago First seen · 222 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 6ef726edd611

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agent-worker-specialist is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/ruflo (71,074 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,359 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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