recipe-task

A task-running workflow that analyzes a standalone request, chooses applicable instructions, and applies them before completing the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-step tasks that need instruction selection, evidence gathering, and structured execution.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of missing relevant rules, context, or known pitfalls when handling a task.

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/shinpr/codex-workflows/recipe-task
Any agent
npx skills add shinpr/codex-workflows --skill recipe-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/codex-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 482 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 $0.00016 $0.00482
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00048

Measured 2d ago against content hash bc1353d983c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-task 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.

.agents/skills/recipe-task/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Required Skills [LOAD BEFORE EXECUTION]

  1. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] task-analyzer — task analysis and skill selection
  2. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] llm-friendly-context — clear prompts, handoffs, and generated artifacts

Spawn rule: invoke rule-advisor with fork_turns="none" so it receives only the task and explicit context.

Task: $ARGUMENTS

Mandatory Execution Process

1. Select rules with rule-advisor

Invoke rule-advisor first with the standalone task, current context, and any explicit recipe or governing artifact. Its result supplies task essence, selected skill names and sections, warning patterns, and the first evidence-gathering action.

2. Apply the result

  1. Use metaCognitiveGuidance.taskEssence as the task's purpose.
  2. Load and read each skill in selectedRules completely by skill name, then apply the selected sections in context.
  3. Use metaCognitiveGuidance.pastFailures, potentialPitfalls, and warningPatterns to prevent a known failure that is applicable to this task.
  4. Begin with metaCognitiveGuidance.firstStep unless current evidence already satisfies it.

3. Register multi-step work

For multi-step work, reuse the active execution plan or create one from the material actions implied by the rule-advisor result. Keep one step in progress and finish with verification of the requested outcome and applicable rules. Simple work proceeds directly.

4. Execute and verify

Execute in the parent session unless an applicable recipe assigns domain work to a named specialist. Apply the selected skills and verify the requested observable outcome.

Boundaries

  • An explicitly invoked recipe or supplied governing artifact remains the workflow entry point.
  • rule-advisor selects standalone skills and metacognitive guidance; it does not determine requirement scope, documentation scale, approvals, or implementation routing.
  • Skill handoff uses skill names and section names. The executing session reads each selected skill completely.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

Files

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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 47 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A bc1353d983c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recipe-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/codex-workflows (38 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 482 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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