generate-eou-candidates

generate-eou-candidates is a skill for Claude Code from xiaolai/eou-foundry. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,629 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

A proposal generator that examines a described workflow and suggests a small, ranked set of executable operating units, or EOUs. EOUs are defined pieces of work designed to be governed and audited.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a workflow supplied as text or a YAML/Markdown file and produce candidate EOU proposals for later review. The candidates cannot be activated by this tool.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear or tangled workflow into possible units of responsibility while stopping when key information—such as the goal, output, failure risks, or owner—is missing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Part of the eou-foundry plugin — 14 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyze a workflow supplied as text or a YAML/Markdown file and produce candidate EOU proposals for later review. The candidates cannot be activated by this tool.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaolai/eou-foundry/generate-eou-candidates
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add xiaolai/eou-foundry --skill generate-eou-candidates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/eou-foundry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install eou-foundry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 1 command.

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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 1,629 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00035 $0.01629
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00814
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00163

Measured 9d ago against content hash 342afd6b3ce3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-eou-candidates 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 9d 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.

codex/skills/generate-eou-candidates/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate EOU Candidates

Generate candidate EOUs from $workflow.

Inputs

  • $workflow (required) — the workflow to analyze; may be a file path (YAML or Markdown) or a free-text description. If a file path, read it; if text, treat it as the workflow description.
  • workflow_slug — derived from the workflow name or file stem, normalized to lowercase alphanumeric + hyphens (e.g., code-review-workflow). Used in the output filename.
  • captured_workflow (optional, ECP-0017 / Rule 96) — when foundry/captured-workflows/cw-{app_id}.yml exists with all four human_approval gates populated, load it. Its domain_values block is consulted during candidate scoring per Step 6.5.

Required reading

  1. foundry/constitution.yml
  2. foundry/registry.yml
  3. foundry/failure-taxonomy.yml
  4. foundry/meta-eous/generate-eou-candidates.yml
  5. schemas/eou.schema.yml

Stop conditions

Halt and report if any of the following hold:

  • Workflow goal is unclear.
  • Desired artifact or output is undefined.
  • No failure modes are provided or inferable.
  • Responsibility boundary is unclear.
  • High-stakes workflow has no identified owner.

Procedure

Step 1 — Summarize the workflow

Extract: what actor does what action to produce what artifact, and what the known failure modes are. State any ambiguities as open questions.

Step 2 — Identify decision boundaries

Locate where the success criterion changes — each boundary is a candidate EOU boundary, not each visible action. Separate deterministic steps (scriptable) from judgment steps (LLM or human required).

Step 3 — Registry diff

For each candidate boundary, check foundry/registry.yml and foundry/eous/ + foundry/meta-eous/:

  • Does this candidate duplicate an existing EOU? → record and skip.
  • Can it extend an existing EOU? → record the extension recommendation.
  • Should it be a refactor instead of a new EOU? → record.
  • Would a rule, schema field, validator, stop condition, regression case, or human checklist serve better? → record and prefer that over a new EOU.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 9d ago First seen · 154 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 342afd6b3ce3

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generate-eou-candidates is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/eou-foundry (10 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,629 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 2026-08-31.

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