workflow-patterns

workflow-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wshobson/agents. It costs 35 tokens per session (344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for Conductor's test-driven development workflow, where tests are written before the code they check, along with its checkpoints and git practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to follow red-green-refactor TDD, manage phase checkpoints, update plans, create focused commits, and record verification results.
Why use it?
It helps keep implementation steps, verification, progress notes, and commits consistent across a project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the conductor plugin — 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 39,424 stars · on GitHub

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install conductor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 344 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 $0.00035 $0.00344
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00172
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured yesterday against content hash dc156fe16f39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-patterns 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/conductor/skills/workflow-patterns/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Workflow Patterns

Guide for implementing tasks using Conductor's TDD workflow, managing phase checkpoints, handling git commits, and executing the verification protocol that ensures quality throughout implementation.

When to Use This Skill

  • Implementing tasks from a track's plan.md
  • Following TDD red-green-refactor cycle
  • Completing phase checkpoints
  • Managing git commits and notes
  • Understanding quality assurance gates
  • Handling verification protocols
  • Recording progress in plan files

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

Best Practices

  1. Never skip RED: Always write failing tests first
  2. Small commits: One logical change per commit
  3. Immediate updates: Update plan.md right after task completion
  4. Wait for approval: Never skip checkpoint verification
  5. Rich git notes: Include context that helps future understanding
  6. Coverage discipline: Don't accept coverage below target
  7. Quality gates: Check all gates before marking complete
  8. Sequential phases: Complete phases in order
  9. Document deviations: Note any changes from original plan
  10. Clean state: Each commit should leave code in working state
  11. Fast feedback: Run relevant tests frequently during development
  12. Clear blockers: Address blockers promptly, don't work around them
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 First seen · 39 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A dc156fe16f39

Subscribe to this mod's changes

workflow-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,424 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 344 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 2026-09-03.

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