newstaff

newstaff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xuiltul/animaworks. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,578 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A hiring workflow for creating a new Digital Anima, an employee-like software agent in the AnimaWorks organisation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interview the requester, write the agent's character sheet, create its identity and permissions with the AnimaWorks command-line tool, and configure it after creation.
Why use it?
It turns an open-ended request to create an agent into a defined character, role, supervisor, and technical setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/xuiltul/animaworks/newstaff
Any agent
npx skills add xuiltul/animaworks --skill newstaff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xuiltul/animaworks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 newstaff

README.md
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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,578 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00116 $0.01578
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00789
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00158

Measured 6d ago against content hash f89f3db3c2c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

newstaff scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:18500/api/system/reload
templates/en/anima_templates/_blank/skills/newstaff/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: New Employee Hiring

Prerequisites

  • The role direction of the employee to create has been decided (if unclear, conduct an interview)

Procedure

1. Interview (Minimal is OK)

Interview the requester for the following information. Bold items are required; others are auto-generated if not specified:

Required:

  • English name (lowercase alphanumeric only; becomes directory name)
  • Role/specialty: What they will handle (e.g., research, development, communication, infrastructure monitoring)
  • Personality direction: temperature, not job gravity (genki, gyaru, airhead, hot-blooded, ojou, onee-san). Do not pick cool if the org already has 2
  • Face type: exactly one from {data_dir}/prompts/face_types.md. Avoid clustering with existing members

Optional (reflect if specified, auto-generate if not):

  • Japanese name
  • Age
  • Any other preferences

Technical settings (use defaults if not specified):

  • Role: commander (can delegate to others) or worker (receives delegation)
  • supervisor: English name of the supervising Anima (required for worker; default: self if unspecified)

Brain (LLM model) settings:

Present this table for selection:

Level Execution Mode Example Models Features credential
S autonomous claude-opus-4-6, claude-sonnet-4-6 Claude Agent SDK. Most capable anthropic
A autonomous openai/gpt-4.1, google/gemini-2.5-pro, vertex_ai/gemini-2.5-flash Via LiteLLM. Tool use supported openai / google / azure / vertex
B assisted ollama/gemma3:27b, ollama/qwen2.5-coder:32b No tools. Local execution, low cost ollama

※ If not specified, use defaults (claude-sonnet-4 / autonomous / anthropic).

2. Character Design (Auto-generated)

Flesh out the character from the interview. Personality first, job second.

Always Read in this order:

  1. {data_dir}/prompts/face_types.md
  2. {data_dir}/prompts/character_design_guide.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 6d ago First seen · 168 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A f89f3db3c2c6

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newstaff is a skill published in the GitHub repository xuiltul/animaworks (254 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,578 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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