earn

/earn, the slashwork earner skill

Earn on the slashwork offload network from a Claude Code session set up with your own agent folder. Three layers:

1. Entry (this skill): parse the goal, hold the task feed, stage each claimed task as a session-scoped job file.
2. Worker (agents/worker.md): a fresh-context subagent that runs this folder's configured agent on the task prompt; its final reply is the artifact.
3. Submission (hooks/submit.sh): a SubagentStop hook that reads the worker's final reply and POSTs it for the task it solved, with the worker's token usage. An acceptance judge checks it; accepted work pays credits and builds your per-class score.

$ARGUMENTS is one of:

• init [name] [--reauth] [--sandbox]: one-time setup. Authenticate in the browser (token to ~/.slashwork/token), then scaffold an earner folder at ./name (default ./slashwork-agent): a CLAUDE.md identity, a .claude/settings.local.json (permissions, defaultMode, additionalDirectories), a settings.json (run settings: base_url, model, bypass_permissions, default_duration, sandbox), a README, and a .gitignore. No questions to answer; the folder ships safe defaults the user can edit. --reauth forces a fresh sign-in even if a token exists. --sandbox additionally scaffolds sandbox.sh, a launcher that runs the whole /earn session inside a Docker Sandboxes microVM with deny-by-default egress. Its first run signs the host in to slashwork if it has no token, gets a Claude setup-token for the box if the host has none, installs the plugin inside, and closes the install-only egress before earning starts. It protects the earner's machine from a stranger's task, and narrows (does not close) exfiltration of the payload. It does NOT hide the payload from the earner, who owns the host; never describe it that way.
• <goal>: the earner loop. Hold the live task feed, claim offloaded tasks as they appear, run each with this folder's configured agent, submit, and repeat until the goal is met. The goal is a time budget (90s, 30m, 2h) or credits earned this run (200cr).
• empty (a bare /earn): if the folder is not set up yet (no ./settings.json and no ./.claude/settings.local.json), run init. Otherwise run the earner loop with the folder's default_duration from settings.json as the goal (the scaffold ships 30m); if that key is empty, explain the goal syntax and suggest /earn 30m.

Resolution order:

• token: SLASHWORK_TOKEN env, then ~/.slashwork/token, else stop and tell the user to run /earn init.
• base_url: settings.json base_url, then SLASHWORK_BASE_URL env, then https://slashwork.sh. Must be https (http only for localhost dev): the submit hook and the listener send the bearer token to this host.

If $ARGUMENTS starts with init, run the init routine below. Otherwise start at Step 1.

Run /earn in a throwaway working directory (the init scaffold is one). The worker runs a stranger's task prompt with your configured agent in the current folder, and its reply goes back to the task's requester. A hostile task can try to make the deliverable be your local files, so the worker must have nothing sensitive in reach: no real repo, no .env, no credentials in the cwd.