crossbreed

crossbreed is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sjarmak/agent-workflows. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,074 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-combination skill that takes two or three existing prototypes or design approaches and creates hybrid versions from them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used to compare prototype architecture, data handling, algorithms, and interfaces, then produce multiple designs with different dominant starting points.
Why use it?
It helps explore new directions by preserving selected structural ideas from several designs in one concept.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-workflows plugin — 28 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/sjarmak/agent-workflows/crossbreed
Any agent
npx skills add sjarmak/agent-workflows --skill crossbreed
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sjarmak/agent-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,074 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 $0.00000 $0.02074
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01037
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00207

Measured 5d ago against content hash 121f23353563, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crossbreed 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.

skills/crossbreed/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Structural recombination of existing designs. Takes 2-3 prototypes or design approaches and spawns N agents to create HYBRID designs, each with a different "dominant parent" whose architecture leads while grafting specific elements from the others.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS — format: [N] path1 path2 [path3] where N is optional number of hybrid agents (default: one per parent, min 2, max 5) and paths point to prototype branches, design docs, or PROTOTYPE_NOTES.md files

Parse Arguments

Extract:

  • agent_count: optional leading integer (default: one per parent path, min 2, max 5)
  • parent_paths: 2-3 paths to prototype branches, design docs, or PROTOTYPE_NOTES.md files

Validate:

  • At least 2 parent paths are provided
  • No more than 3 parent paths
  • Each path exists and contains readable design material (code, docs, or PROTOTYPE_NOTES.md)

Phase 1: Analyze the Parents

For each parent design:

  1. Read the design doc, code, or prototype notes at the given path
  2. Extract structural elements:
    • Architecture pattern (monolith, modular, layered, event-driven, etc.)
    • Data model and state management approach
    • Key algorithms or core logic
    • API design and interface boundaries
    • Dependency choices (libraries, frameworks)
    • Error handling strategy
    • File organization and module structure
  3. Identify what this parent does BEST — its distinctive strength
  4. Identify what this parent does WORST or leaves incomplete

Present a parent comparison table to the user:

Element Parent A Parent B Parent C
Architecture ... ... ...
Data model ... ... ...
Key algorithm ... ... ...
API design ... ... ...
Dependencies ... ... ...
Error handling ... ... ...
Distinctive strength ... ... ...
Weakness / gap ... ... ...

Ask the user to confirm which elements they want to see recombined before proceeding.

Phase 2: Design Recombination Strategies

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

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 · 204 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 121f23353563

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crossbreed is a skill published in the GitHub repository sjarmak/agent-workflows (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,074 tokens. 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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