procedure-promote

procedure-promote is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yarlson/yarstack. It costs 61 tokens per session (487 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for turning a repeatedly successful, verified task into a reusable Agent Skill. An Agent Skill is a saved set of instructions that an agent can use when the same situation occurs again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Promoting a proven procedure after independent successful uses, or proposing a focused update to an existing skill, while recording the draft for review rather than activating it automatically.
Why use it?
It prevents one-off fixes, guesses, and project facts from being packaged as reusable instructions. It also checks for an existing skill before drafting a new one.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the yarbrain plugin — 6 skills, 3 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/yarlson/yarstack/procedure-promote
Any agent
npx skills add yarlson/yarstack --skill procedure-promote
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yarlson/yarstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install yarbrain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 3 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 procedure-promote

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 487 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 $0.00061 $0.00487
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00049

Measured 4d ago against content hash d4ac1fdf4441, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

procedure-promote 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 4d 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.

plugins/yarbrain/skills/procedure-promote/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Promote a Procedure

Turn proven know-how into a reusable procedure without modifying installed plugin content or activating unreviewed instructions.

Qualification

Promote a candidate only when the user explicitly requests it or at least two independent episodes show the same successful procedure. The steps must be stable, prerequisites identifiable, and success verifiable.

Reject project facts, one-off fixes with unknown causes, behavioral policy that belongs in agent instructions, and procedures whose safe scope cannot be stated. Leave an ineligible candidate unchanged and report it as deferred. An explicit promotion request does not waive these evidence and safety checks.

Workflow

  1. Read the candidate and every supporting episode. Confirm the evidence shows success rather than a proposed or partially completed approach.
  2. Search the vault's skills/ tree and the user's configured Agent Skill directories for the same trigger and outcome.
  3. Draft either a new skill or a focused patch to an existing skill under inbox/skills/. Do not create a near-duplicate. If the current request does not authorize a vault write, show the draft without storing it.
  4. Use lowercase kebab-case and frontmatter containing exactly name and description. The description must state both what the skill does and when it applies.
  5. Include prerequisites, ordered steps, verification, meaningful failure modes, safety and authority boundaries, and a Provenance section naming the source episodes and last successful verification.
  6. Show the complete proposal. Promote it to the vault's skills//SKILL.md or another user-approved skill directory only after explicit approval.
  7. Validate the promoted skill with the target agent's native validator when available. Do not claim it is active until the target agent can discover it.

Do not patch a skill based on name alone. If distinct procedures would use the same name, choose an unambiguous trigger-based name or stop for the user's decision; never overwrite the existing skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 4d ago First seen · 48 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A d4ac1fdf4441

Subscribe to this mod's changes

procedure-promote is a skill published in the GitHub repository yarlson/yarstack (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 487 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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