webjs-start-work

A workflow skill for beginning work on an existing tracked GitHub issue in the webjsdev/webjs project. GitHub issues are task records, and the project board tracks their progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work on a webjs issue that already exists. If no issue exists, the documented workflow requires filing one first.
Why use it?
It ensures work is linked to a tracked issue before coding begins, so the change can be followed through the project's process.

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/webjsdev/webjs/webjs-start-work
Any agent
npx skills add webjsdev/webjs --skill webjs-start-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/webjsdev/webjs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 13,473 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 $0.00036 $0.13473
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.06737
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.02695
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.01347

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3644c01633f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

webjs-start-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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/webjs-start-work/SKILL.md · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start work on a webjs GitHub issue

The webjsdev/webjs project tracks work on the GitHub Project board at https://github.com/orgs/webjsdev/projects/1. This skill runs the start-of-work lifecycle whenever the user wants to begin a tracked issue.

Precondition: the work MUST already have a tracked issue

This skill picks up from an EXISTING issue. Before running any step below, confirm the task has one. It often does NOT: a task that arrives from a conversation, a code-review finding, a dogfood observation, or your own idea has no issue yet, and THAT is the gap this guards.

If there is no tracked issue for this work, STOP. Do not create a branch, do not write code. First invoke webjs-file-issue to file it and capture the new number, THEN run this skill with that number. Starting code on untracked work is a process failure: the PR ships with no Closes #N, the work never appears on the board, and the card never moves to Done. This has happened (a whole feature was implemented and merged before any issue existed, then filed retroactively only after the user noticed).

If you are unsure whether an issue already exists, search before filing:

gh api "search/issues?q=repo:webjsdev/webjs+is:issue+<keywords>&per_page=20" \
  --jq '.items[] | "#\(.number) [\(.state)] \(.title)"'

Search the ISSUES over REST rather than dumping the board. It matches bodies as well as titles, so it is the better duplicate check, and it costs nothing from the GraphQL budget. See .claude/gh-budget.md.

When in doubt, file it. A duplicate is cheap to close; untracked work is the expensive failure. Only once an issue number exists do you continue to Inputs below.

Inputs

The user's request typically names an issue by number (e.g. #112) or by description (e.g. "the dist issue"). Resolve the number first:

  • If the user said #N explicitly, use N.
  • If they described the issue by topic, search the issues over REST and match against titles. If multiple match, ask the user to disambiguate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 361 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. 2d ago First seen · 361 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 3644c01633f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

webjs-start-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository webjsdev/webjs (109 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 13,473 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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