work-item

work-item is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE. It costs 35 tokens per session (386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A source-control-independent workflow for creating or rewriting a work item, such as a GitHub issue, GitLab issue, or Azure Boards item.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write user scenarios, edge cases, functional requirements, success criteria, assumptions, and the required labels or categories for a work item.
Why use it?
It keeps each work item focused on one actionable problem and makes its requirements and acceptance checks consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/shafthq/shaft_engine/work-item
Any agent
npx skills add ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE --skill work-item
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 386 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 $0.00035 $0.00386
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 5d ago against content hash 15dd0993c97c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-item 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.

.chaos-engine/skills/work-item/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Work item

Load this skill when the deliverable is open or rewrite a work item. Do not vendor Spec Kit or create .specify/. Keep GitHub PR delivery on work-github-playbook.md.

Contract and adapters: work-item.md.

One item, one problem

One work item owns one actionable problem. Trackers list children; they do not absorb them. Preserve existing acceptance when rewriting.

Required Spec Kit sections

Every body must include:

  • User Scenarios & Testing
  • Edge Cases
  • Functional Requirements
  • Success Criteria
  • Assumptions or Out of scope

Keep adopter template headings (for example bug or feature fields) so existing validators still match.

When rewriting an existing item for Spec Kit hygiene, specialize User Story, FR-*, and SC-* from that issue's own acceptance (see scripts.agents.issue_filing.rewrite_body_spec_kit). Keep the shared heading checklist; never paste the generic stamp Deliver the stated acceptance onto unrelated tickets. Trackers may keep a campaign-level story.

Taxonomy

Exactly one primary type, exactly one lifecycle, at least one subsystem or module. Missing taxonomy fails closed with a named reason. Ready needs a proof plan; blocked needs at least one https dependency URL.

Adapter selection

Detect the live CLI from the adopter environment. Do not assume GitHub. Command maps live in the adapters reference named from the contract. Live create/edit remains whatever CLI the adopter already runs; dry-run and fake runners prove the other maps.

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. 5d ago First seen · 53 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 15dd0993c97c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work-item is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE (407 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 386 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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