drive-workstream

A long-running workflow manager for substantial coding objectives that span several phases or pull requests. It coordinates investigation, planning, implementation, verification, review, and merging while keeping durable notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify scope, investigate a repository, plan a sequence of pull requests, coordinate workers and reviewers, publish changes, and continue after merges.
Why use it?
It gives multi-step work a persistent process and keeps decisions, delegated tasks, and progress organized across a session.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 709 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 $0.00048 $0.00709
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash a09beec3f2d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drive-workstream 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.

plugins/codex-workstreams/skills/drive-workstream/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drive Workstream

Manage a substantial coding objective from initial understanding through a sequence of reviewed pull requests. Keep the main session focused on decisions, durable state, delegation, and user communication. The manager coordinates the work but does not implement or review code itself.

Pipeline

  1. Clarify the objective and constraints.
  2. Use investigate-codebase to gather evidence with read-only explorers.
  3. Discuss the evidence, architecture, scope, and PR sequence with the user. Do not begin implementation until the user approves the scope and sequence.
  4. Create a Markdown workstream note under: ${CODEX_ARTIFACTS_DIR:-$HOME/codex-artifacts}/workstreams/<repo-key>/<workstream>.md
  5. For each approved PR:
    • use implement-change
    • use verify-change
    • use run-pr-cycle
  6. After merge, sync the primary checkout with the repository's normal workflow, delete the completed PR's note, and continue the next approved PR automatically. If another approved PR remains, create a fresh minimal note for it before starting work.

Use references/workstream-note.md when creating or recovering a note.

Manager Rules

  • Delegate code inspection to explorers, code changes to writing workers, and full diff review to fresh read-only verifiers.
  • Do not edit source code, read complete diffs, or run implementation validation in the manager session.
  • Own cheap metadata checks, worktree creation, durable state, publication, browser handoff, and blocking waits.
  • Treat the workstream note as a disposable checkpoint, not a journal. Rewrite it in place with current state only. Do not append progress history.
  • Use one owner worker per PR. Spawn supporting workers when independent chunks can proceed in parallel. The owner worker integrates accepted support commits.
  • Keep the owner worker available for verifier, CI, and review feedback.
  • Keep active worker branches on their assigned branch-point SHA. Movement on the target branch alone is not a reason to rebase or recreate them.
  • Record newly discovered work outside the approved scope as candidate follow-ups. Do not ship it inline.
  • Never merge unless explicitly asked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 69 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a09beec3f2d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

drive-workstream is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShivaeDev/pardes (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 709 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 2026-08-31.

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