brutal-worker

brutal-worker is a skill for Codex from sssemil/SKILLS. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,204 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A managed workflow for completing one exact task or review finding in a code repository, including implementation, checks, and pull-request preparation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a specific coding task or review comment that must be handled in an isolated worktree and prepared as a stacked pull request.
Why use it?
It keeps the worker focused on the assigned item and requires the result to be checked for correctness.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it for a specific coding task or review comment that must be handled in an isolated worktree and prepared as a stacked pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sssemil/skills/brutal-worker
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.

Any agent
npx skills add sssemil/SKILLS --skill brutal-worker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sssemil/SKILLS

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,204 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 $0.00054 $0.01204
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00120

Measured 9d ago against content hash 983768a35329, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brutal-worker 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 9d 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/brutal/brutal-worker/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brutal Worker

Complete one exact work item and its pull request. Never select a replacement.

Required Context

Always require the stable task reference and read applicable repository rules. Read ../brutal-shared/integration-resolver.md and ../brutal-shared/support/contracts.md. Reuse a managed assignment’s validated work-store/code-host identities, canonical local root, worktree, branch, and base; resolve only missing data needed by the current phase.

For standalone work, also read ../brutal-swarm/references/parallel-execution.md, create or resume the isolated worktree with ../brutal-swarm/scripts/worktree_manager.py, and read ../brutal-inf-fix-loop/SKILL.md plus its source skills.

For managed work, the immutable handoff establishes assignment identity; the phase snapshot supplies revalidated mutable state. Runtime names, logs, and old snapshots are observational and grant no provider authority. Read only the supplied phase context file.

Hard Rules

  • Own only the handed-off item, branch, worktree, and pull request.
  • Select only task or review_finding; never implement a plan or investigation.
  • Never merge, approve, request changes, force-push, delete a remote branch, or create a second pull request for the item.
  • Preserve unrelated changes and edit only the isolated worktree.
  • Keep the item in_progress until a fresh review has no CRITICAL or MAJOR. Then it may move to in_review; move it to done only after its PR merged.

Managed Phase Protocol

When the prompt contains a managed phase snapshot, do only that phase and return the supervisor’s exact result. Do not continue into the next phase.

work

Read the full item, history, parent/blockers, assignment, and existing PR link. Prove the exact claim from the expected state before changing code. Validate worktree, branch, base branch/SHA, and branch task marker. Implement, test, self-review, commit, push, and find-or-create the single marked PR. Return a checkpoint with current base/head, PR, verification, and zeroed review fields.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 114 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 983768a35329

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brutal-worker is a skill published in the GitHub repository sssemil/SKILLS (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,204 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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