formax-dev-loop-workflow

A disciplined development workflow for making focused changes in the Formax codebase, with tests, review, small commits, and a check for simple improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide each code change from test adjustment through implementation, targeted testing, review, optimization checks, and commit preparation.
Why use it?
It keeps work focused and reviewable while reducing accidental scope expansion, incomplete staging, and unnecessary test runs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/yusifeng/formax/formax-dev-loop-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add yusifeng/formax --skill formax-dev-loop-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yusifeng/formax

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 628 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 $0.00068 $0.00628
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00314
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00063

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0b7f03f259df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

formax-dev-loop-workflow 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 3d 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/formax-dev-loop-workflow/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Formax Dev Loop (Mainline Discipline)

Default loop (repeat per TODO item)

  1. Pick one mainline item and finish it end-to-end before starting another.

    • If a new idea appears mid-flight, write it down in a backlog note and continue the mainline.
  2. Write/adjust tests first to lock behavior (when feasible).

  3. Implement the smallest change that satisfies the item.

  4. Incremental optimization check (required)

    • After implementation, do a quick pass:
      • Is there newly-dead/unused logic introduced by this increment?
      • Is there a low-risk simplification that reduces branching/duplication?
    • If yes, include a small optimization in the same item (no scope drift, no behavior change).
    • If no, explicitly proceed without optimization.
  5. Run only targeted tests (never bun run test:coverage unless explicitly asked).

    • Preferred: bun run test -- <changed-test-files...>
    • Helper (repo): bun run test:changed
      • Use default (staged only) for the commit you are about to make.
      • Use bun run test:changed -- --all only when you intentionally want staged + unstaged + untracked.
  6. Pre-commit hygiene

    • Avoid partial staging (“MM” state). If needed, check with:
      • bun run check:partial-stage
    • Run review before every commit using AGENTS.md -> Review Profile (Single Source of Truth).
    • If review returns findings: fix -> re-run targeted tests -> re-run review.
  7. Commit

    • Keep it small (2–4 files ideally, unless refactor forces more).
    • Prefer one concern per commit (tests + implementation together for that concern).

Guardrails (Formax-specific)

  • Do not fix unrelated failures mid-loop unless they block the mainline.
  • If a command would usually be run with pipes/redirections for convenience, prefer running it plain and rely on Formax’s own output truncation/Expand UI.
  • Don’t “clean up” formatting/copy/colors/spacing unless explicitly requested or required for parity.

Quick commands

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 3d ago First seen · 62 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 0b7f03f259df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

formax-dev-loop-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository yusifeng/formax (192 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 628 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 2026-08-30.

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