workflow

workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vercel-labs/open-agents. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,453 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for building durable workflows with Vercel’s Workflow DevKit. A durable workflow can pause, resume after a restart, retry failures, and coordinate several steps over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building resumable, retryable, multi-step workflows and checking the installed Workflow DevKit documentation before implementation.
Why use it?
It prevents workflow code from relying on outdated or incorrect documentation and helps it handle interruptions and long-running operations.

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/vercel-labs/open-agents/workflow
Any agent
npx skills add vercel-labs/open-agents --skill workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vercel-labs/open-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,453 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 $0.00074 $0.01453
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00727
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00145

Measured 3d ago against content hash 04131ffdcd0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/workflow/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CRITICAL: Always Use Correct workflow Documentation

Your knowledge of workflow is outdated.

The workflow documentation outlined below matches the installed version of the Workflow DevKit. Follow these instructions before starting on any workflow-related tasks:

Search the bundled documentation in node_modules/workflow/docs/:

  1. Find docs: glob "node_modules/workflow/docs/**/*.mdx"
  2. Search content: grep "your query" node_modules/workflow/docs/

Documentation structure in node_modules/workflow/docs/:

  • getting-started/ - Framework setup (next.mdx, express.mdx, hono.mdx, etc.)
  • foundations/ - Core concepts (workflows-and-steps.mdx, hooks.mdx, streaming.mdx, etc.)
  • api-reference/workflow/ - API docs (sleep.mdx, create-hook.mdx, fatal-error.mdx, etc.)
  • api-reference/workflow-api/ - Client API (start.mdx, get-run.mdx, resume-hook.mdx, etc.)
  • ai/ - AI SDK integration docs
  • errors/ - Error code documentation

Related packages also include bundled docs:

  • @workflow/ai: node_modules/@workflow/ai/docs/ - DurableAgent and AI integration
  • @workflow/core: node_modules/@workflow/core/docs/ - Core runtime (foundations, how-it-works)
  • @workflow/next: node_modules/@workflow/next/docs/ - Next.js integration

When in doubt, update to the latest version of the Workflow DevKit.

Official Resources

Quick Reference

Directives:

"use workflow";  // First line - makes async function durable
"use step";      // First line - makes function a cached, retryable unit

Essential imports:

// Workflow primitives
import { sleep, fetch, createHook, createWebhook, getWritable } from "workflow";
import { FatalError, RetryableError } from "workflow";
import { getWorkflowMetadata, getStepMetadata } from "workflow";

// API operations
import { start, getRun, resumeHook, resumeWebhook } from "workflow/api";

// Framework integrations
import { withWorkflow } from "workflow/next";
import { workflow } from "workflow/vite";
import { workflow } from "workflow/astro";
// Or use modules: ["workflow/nitro"] for Nitro/Nuxt

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 3d ago First seen · 182 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 04131ffdcd0b

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workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository vercel-labs/open-agents (5,798 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,453 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 2026-08-31.

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