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.
npx agentmods add skills/shinpr/codex-workflows/implementation-approachnpx skills add shinpr/codex-workflows --skill implementation-approachgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/codex-workflowsWhat 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 | $0.00022 | $0.00611 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00305 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00122 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
implementation-approach 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Implementation Approach
Strategy Selection
Use this sequence when a design or task needs an implementation approach:
- Current evidence — inspect the relevant responsibility, data/control path, representative repository pattern, and constraints that can change the choice.
- Direct MVP — describe the simplest end-to-end change that delivers the confirmed outcome through the existing architecture and dependencies.
- Failure check — test that Direct MVP against current requirements, verified constraints, observed problems, and evidence-backed material risks within scope.
- Targeted expansion — add only what resolves a failed item. Compare the smallest sufficient design with and without the addition; technical correctness makes an option admissible but does not make it valuable.
- Value and subtraction check — retain the addition only when observed or governing evidence shows that its outcome benefit justifies its total UX, runtime, implementation, testing, documentation, and maintenance cost over the smaller design.
Possible future reuse, generic best practice, speculative edge cases, and optional hardening are not failed items. A path or file count is supporting evidence, not a scale or strategy rule.
For implementation agents, keep this analysis in the active execution context. Create a separate artifact only for a named downstream consumer. Design Docs and Work Plans record only adopted decisions that control downstream implementation; unselected candidates remain transient unless an ADR records them as decision history.
Slicing Choice
Choose the smallest slicing structure that preserves dependency order and yields observable progress:
- Vertical — one user- or consumer-visible outcome can be completed across its layers without first creating a shared foundation.
- Foundation-first — multiple required outcomes depend on the same contract or mechanism that must exist before any can work.
- Hybrid — one verified shared dependency comes first, followed by outcome-oriented slices.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 48 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 25801e241209
implementation-approach is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/codex-workflows (38 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 611 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 2026-08-30.
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