work-state-and-delivery

work-state-and-delivery is a skill for Claude Code from yfge/agent-harness-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,015 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for connecting requirements, plans, task tracking, review evidence, handoffs, and delivery records. It also covers how tasks relate to repository commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up task boards, external trackers, execution plans, delivery ledgers, handoffs, or policies for linking tasks to commits.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicate or contradictory records and makes it possible to trace a requested task through its acceptance criteria and code changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-harness-skills plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when setting up task boards, external trackers, execution plans, delivery ledgers, handoffs, or policies for linking tasks to commits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yfge/agent-harness-skills/work-state-and-delivery
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.

Any agent
npx skills add yfge/agent-harness-skills --skill work-state-and-delivery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yfge/agent-harness-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-harness-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,015 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.
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 $0.00048 $0.01015
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured 11d ago against content hash fb89e7903a0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-state-and-delivery 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 11d 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.

skills/work-state-and-delivery/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work State And Delivery

Overview

Keep intent, current work state, acceptance criteria, and delivery evidence connected without creating duplicate sources of truth.

This optional governance skill combines planning surfaces and delivery ledgers because they meet at task-to-change traceability. It also owns repository commit-coupling policy, but it should not load for an ordinary commit that already follows clear repository rules. For shared harness terms, see ../../references/harness-patterns.md; when governance surfaces are missing, use references/build-when-missing.md; for delivery, skip, artifact, and commit rules, use references/delivery-and-commit-policy.md.

When To Use

  • The user asks where requirements, design decisions, tasks, acceptance criteria, or execution plans should live.
  • A repository needs a task board, external-tracker mapping, delivery record, handoff note, or review evidence policy.
  • Design docs, task state, ledgers, reviews, and commits duplicate or contradict each other.
  • The user asks to design commit coupling, exact-path staging, task-state updates, or delivery-artifact policy for the repository.

Do not use this skill solely for git status, a read-only diff, or a normal commit when the repository already defines those rules.

Inputs Needed

  • Current requirement or delivery goal.
  • Existing design docs, issue tracker or task file, execution plans, review template, ledger, and commit policy.
  • Validation results, artifact references, task IDs, commits, risks, and required audit level.

Execution Order

  • First: Map existing design, work-state, execution-plan, ledger, review, and commit-policy surfaces.
  • Then: Assign one owner for each kind of truth and define update, coupling, skip, and redaction rules.
  • Finally: Output the minimum governance changes, acceptance criteria, and delivery evidence required for the repository profile.

Step-by-Step Process

  1. Search for design docs, tasks.md, issue references, execution plans, review templates, ledgers, release notes, and commit guidance.
  2. Map each existing surface by responsibility rather than filename: design explains why and how; work state owns current status and acceptance; an execution plan coordinates complex work; delivery evidence records what changed and what was proved.
  3. If a required role is missing, bootstrap only the minimum surface from references/build-when-missing.md; do not add a ledger or repo-local task file when an external system already satisfies the role.
  4. Define update order: design decision first, work-state and acceptance second, execution-plan status third, delivery evidence after validation.
  5. When a change completes, changes, or invalidates a tracked task, include its task-state update in the same logical commit or authoritative external-tracker update.
  6. Define exact-path staging, validation evidence, artifact identity, and explicit skip rules in repository guidance; avoid a standalone commit skill for routine execution.
  7. Keep delivery records concise and evidence-oriented; reference prompts or goals, changes, validation, artifacts, risks, tasks, reviews, and commits without storing private transcripts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 97 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A fb89e7903a0c

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work-state-and-delivery is a skill published in the GitHub repository yfge/agent-harness-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,015 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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