trailhead-work

trailhead-work is a skill for Claude Code from ToRvaLDz/trailhead. It costs 138 tokens per session (4,863 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Trailhead work-management skill for handling tasks, called tickets, through their full lifecycle in GitHub Issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to take the next task, complete one named task, checkpoint unfinished work, continue it later, or divide an oversized task into smaller ones.
Why use it?
It organizes how an agent selects, works on, pauses, resumes, or splits tasks instead of treating each request as an isolated action.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the trailhead plugin — 6 skills, 21 commands, 8 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to take the next task, complete one named task, checkpoint unfinished work, continue it later, or divide an oversized task into smaller ones.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/torvaldz/trailhead/trailhead-work
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 ToRvaLDz/trailhead --skill trailhead-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ToRvaLDz/trailhead

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trailhead, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 21 commands, 8 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,863 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 $0.00138 $0.04863
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.02431
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00973
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00486

Measured yesterday against content hash a26b139c93e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trailhead-work 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/trailhead/skills/trailhead-work/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

trailhead-work is the work cluster of the trailhead skill: the verbs that resolve tickets and manage a ticket's lifecycle. work takes the next frontier ticket (or the one you name) and resolves it with its type's engine; quick works one ticket whole, off the map, without splitting; pause checkpoints the ticket in play; resume picks it back up; split breaks an oversized ticket into children; auto runs the map's frontier autonomously, ticket by ticket, suspending the one-ticket-per-session rule until a stop condition or exhaustion. Everything lives on the GitHub Issues; the repo holds code only.

Load first, in order

Before doing anything, read ../_shared/load-first.md and follow it: the shared-core load contract (the six core files, in order, then the effective config). _shared/ is a sibling of this cluster's own directory (at ../_shared/), never a child of it; its absence from a listing of the cluster dir is expected, not a missing core.

Config is a property of the project/map, not the working directory: an isolation workspace inherits this config, never re-resolves it from the isolated copy's own root. For an explicit work <n> / quick <n>, the named-ticket Preflight below runs before this config load: never load config, or anything else, for a ticket that turns out closed.

Routing: verb to engine

The first word of the arguments is the verb; the rest is the text (a ticket number, a "text" seed, or a pause note).

  • work [ticket] to the Work the map engine below (Mode 2). It dispatches the chosen ticket to its type's engine in references/ticket-engines.md (decision / research / prototype / build / bug / task). Read that file when you resolve the ticket.
  • quick [ticket | "text"] to the Work one ticket whole engine below. It runs the full build/bug cycle from references/ticket-engines.md, off the map, without splitting.
  • pause [note] / resume [ticket] / split [ticket] to the teamwork lifecycle: ../_shared/teamwork.md (multi-cluster, so it lives in _shared/). Read it and follow it.
  • auto [map] to the autonomous run engine in references/auto.md: it runs the map's frontier ticket-by-ticket, suspending one-ticket-per-session, taking every advisory choice as delegate without the confirm gate and stopping only at the safety rail, fog, human-necessary decisions, or human interrupt. Read that file when you engage a run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. yesterday Changed · -7 lines a26b139c93e5
  2. 3d ago Changed · +10 lines · +15 tokens per session 1f526bcc27f4
  3. 6d ago First seen · 68 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A d5f34c3cb930

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trailhead-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository ToRvaLDz/trailhead (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 4,863 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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