mcp-codex-worker: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/worker-change-control/SKILL.md

worker-change-control is a skill for Claude Code from sorryorc/mcp-codex-worker. It costs 30 tokens per session (283 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for changing how background workers behave, including their tools, routing, measurements, and default settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing worker tool inputs, environment settings, measurements, results, or verification checks. It also guides tests and documentation for both normal and enforced behavior.
Why use it?
It helps prevent new changes from unexpectedly stopping requests or breaking older clients. It keeps stricter checks opt-in and preserves existing meanings where possible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is sorryorc/mcp-codex-worker's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-codex-worker itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-codex-worker configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sorryorc/mcp-codex-worker. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sorryorc/mcp-codex-worker/main/.claude/skills/worker-change-control/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sorryorc/mcp-codex-worker

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 283 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00030 $0.00283
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00113
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00028

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8160aa88db69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

worker-change-control 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/worker-change-control/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Worker Change Control

Use this before behavior changes to the MCP tool surface, gateway adapter, metrics, or verification gates.

Rules

  • Default to observe or warn. Only block a request when a caller explicitly chooses blocking_policy=enforce.
  • Keep old clients compatible: new fields must be optional and have conservative defaults.
  • Do not turn cost controls into correctness claims. A cheap lane result needs evidence.
  • Prefer additive receipt, metrics, and episode fields over changing existing response meanings.

Checklist

  • Identify the contract boundary: tool schema, env var, metric row, receipt, or job result.
  • Add tests for both default behavior and strict/enforced behavior.
  • Record blocking risk in the response or metrics when a gate is advisory.
  • Update README or .env.example if an operator needs to know the flag.

When Not To Use

Do not use this for pure docs edits that do not alter behavior. Use worker-docs-and-writing instead.

Verification

  • npm test
  • npm run build

Provenance and maintenance

Re-check tool schemas with rg -n "inputSchema|reliability_tier|blocking_policy" src/server.ts src/types.ts.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 8160aa88db69

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worker-change-control is a skill published in the GitHub repository sorryorc/mcp-codex-worker (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 283 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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