workflow-review

workflow-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stencila/stencila. It costs 73 tokens per session (6,613 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review guide for Stencila workflows, which describe automated sequences of steps carried out by agents. It checks the workflow's metadata, structure, branching, approvals, and referenced files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit or improve a workflow directory or WORKFLOW.md file.
Why use it?
It helps reveal missing files, weak step design, unsuitable agent choices, and structural problems before a workflow is used.

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/stencila/stencila/workflow-review
Any agent
npx skills add stencila/stencila --skill workflow-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stencila/stencila

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,613 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 $0.00073 $0.06613
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.03306
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00661

Measured 4d ago against content hash ff4a076e6b49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-review 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 4d 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.

.stencila/skills/workflow-review/SKILL.md · 357 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 357 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Review an existing Stencila workflow for quality, correctness, and completeness. Produce a structured report with specific, actionable suggestions. The review covers frontmatter fields, DOT pipeline structure, workflow design quality, branching and approval logic, agent references and agent-fit quality, discovery metadata, ephemeral workflow conventions, and adherence to the workflow patterns used in this workspace.

Steps

  1. Identify the workflow to review from the user's request — accept a workflow name, a directory path, or a WORKFLOW.md file path
  2. Resolve the workflow file: if given a name, look for .stencila/workflows/<name>/WORKFLOW.md walking up from the current directory; if given a path, use it directly
  3. Read the full WORKFLOW.md file and inspect the workflow directory for supporting files such as .gitignore, scripts/, references/, and assets/
  4. When supporting files are present, check that files referenced from WORKFLOW.md exist and that existing supporting files are meaningfully referenced where appropriate; for large files, verify existence and relevance without reproducing their full contents in the review
  5. When evaluating workspace conventions, compare the workflow against one or two existing workflows in .stencila/workflows/ or related workflow skills when available
  6. When the workflow uses specialized agent attributes or agent fit is unclear, use list_agents to compare referenced agents against available agents and their metadata rather than guessing from names alone
  7. When the workflow composes child workflows with workflow="name" or the choice of nested workflows seems questionable, use list_workflows to compare referenced child workflows against available workflows and their metadata rather than guessing from names alone
  8. Evaluate the workflow against each criterion in the Review Checklist below
  9. If the workflow is explicitly intended to be ephemeral, check whether the directory contains a .gitignore sentinel file with exactly *; if the sentinel is missing or has different contents, treat that as a failure. If the workflow only seems temporary from context, treat a missing sentinel as a warning unless the workflow clearly claims ephemeral status
  10. Produce a structured review report with a summary, per-criterion findings, and a prioritized list of suggestions
  11. If the user asks you to apply improvements, make the changes and validate the result using the most specific path available first, such as stencila workflows validate <workflow-dir> or stencila workflows validate <workflow-file>; use name-based validation only when the name is clearly resolved

Read the full file on GitHub · 357 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. 4d ago First seen · 357 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A ff4a076e6b49

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workflow-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository stencila/stencila (902 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 6,613 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.