work-on

work-on is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wayne930242/straw-boss. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,632 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project skill that identifies which managed application a request belongs to. It finds the repository root and reads the project's app configuration when available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as an initial step when routing requests to the right app before inspecting, investigating, troubleshooting, or shipping work.
Why use it?
It prevents work from being sent to the wrong application in a repository that contains several codebases. It also describes how to proceed when the app configuration is missing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the straw-boss plugin — 16 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

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/wayne930242/straw-boss/work-on
Any agent
npx skills add wayne930242/straw-boss --skill work-on
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wayne930242/straw-boss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install straw-boss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for work-on

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,632 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 $0.00077 $0.01632
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00163

Measured 5d ago against content hash ba0c8b03b4d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-on 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 5d 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/work-on/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

See docs/roles.md for the cast of characters and the authority framework this skill operates under — not redefined here.

App resolution: identify the checkout and return it to the caller. The caller's chosen coordination graph decides whether the current agent works there or opens a separate app-rooted workroom.

An agent working in the app loads its own instructions before acting. A separate workroom is useful when the caller needs the app's full session harness or a durable interactive lifecycle.

Locate the config with git rev-parse --show-toplevel from the current working directory, then read <repo-root>/.claude/straw-boss/apps.json — never assume the current directory is the repo root, and never search upward by hand.

If it doesn't exist, that's not a hard stop — init is a convenience, not a precondition. See Task 1's no-config handling below.

Task 1: Resolve the target app

No apps.json at all: don't block on this — check whether the repo itself reads as single-app (no apps//packages//services/-style directory holding more than one independent codebase at the repo root). If it does, treat the repo root itself as the one implicit app — name it from its package.json (or equivalent manifest) or, failing that, the repo root's own directory basename; dir is the repo root. Proceed with the rest of this skill exactly as if that were the sole apps.json entry. Mention once, briefly, that running init is available if they want to customize git-lifecycle behavior, local-only files, etc. — but never require it first. If the repo structure genuinely looks like a monorepo instead (more than one plausible app directory) and there's no config to say which is which, that's real ambiguity, not something to guess through — ask the user which directory this specific request targets, or suggest init if they'd rather configure it once than get asked every time.

Exactly one non-redirect app configured: use it as the target unless the request is explicitly outside that app, such as infrastructure owned elsewhere or a self-contained external lookup. In that case, return the out-of-scope classification to the caller. Otherwise skip matching and proceed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 5d ago First seen · 78 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A ba0c8b03b4d7

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work-on is a skill published in the GitHub repository wayne930242/straw-boss (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,632 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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