configure-workstream

A setup guide for configuring the Codex workstreams plugin and its artifact folders. It covers permission prompts and personal configuration changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the current setup, configure folders for workstreams, pull-request bodies, and reports, and validate the result.
Why use it?
It helps avoid writing files to the wrong place or changing configuration without approval. It also checks whether the setup is valid.

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/shivaedev/pardes/configure-workstream
Any agent
npx skills add ShivaeDev/pardes --skill configure-workstream
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShivaeDev/pardes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 470 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00040 $0.00470
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash c686df34a8cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

configure-workstream scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check_setup.py, scripts/test_check_setup.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

1. Explain the exact proposed filesystem and `~/.codex/config.toml` changes.
plugins/codex-workstreams/skills/configure-workstream/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

Configure Workstream

Set up one visible artifact directory for manager-owned files. Keep the change narrow and explicit: inspect first, explain the proposed personal-config edit, and write only after the user approves it.

Diagnose

Run the read-only doctor:

uv run python -B "<configure-workstream-skill>/scripts/check_setup.py"

Read its JSON report. The recommended artifact directory is:

${CODEX_ARTIFACTS_DIR:-$HOME/codex-artifacts}

It contains workstreams/, pr-bodies/, and reports/.

Configure

  1. Explain the exact proposed filesystem and ~/.codex/config.toml changes.
  2. Ask for explicit approval before editing personal config or creating directories.
  3. Preserve unrelated configuration and existing writable roots.
  4. If the user already uses permission profiles, add the artifact directory to the selected profile's workspace_roots.
  5. Otherwise, add it to sandbox_workspace_write.writable_roots.
  6. Validate the resulting config with:
codex --strict-config --version
  1. Tell the user to start a new Codex session so the writable root takes effect.

For a stable legacy configuration, add the absolute artifact path:

[sandbox_workspace_write]
writable_roots = ["/absolute/path/to/codex-artifacts"]

For an existing permission profile, extend that profile:

[permissions.<profile>.workspace_roots]
"~/codex-artifacts" = true

Rules

  • Never change personal config without explicit approval.
  • Never migrate between legacy settings and permission profiles as part of onboarding.
  • Never replace existing writable roots when adding the artifact directory.
  • Never grant write access to the entire home directory.
  • Keep source worktrees under <primary-checkout>/.worktrees/.
  • Keep PR-monitor cursor state under ${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/state/pr-monitor/.
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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 70 lines · 40 tokens per session scan B c686df34a8cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

configure-workstream is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShivaeDev/pardes (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 470 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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