What is formax-surface-reset-workflow?

A workflow for changing how a terminal REPL clears, resets, resumes, or redraws its transcript. A REPL is an interactive command-line screen, and the transcript is the visible history of the session.

Use it when changing /clear or /resume, terminal clear behavior, transcript remounts, or transitions involving Ctrl+O and Ctrl+E.

It helps prevent blank screens, flicker, repeated rows, and reset operations being performed by competing parts of the code.

How yusifeng/formax configures Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to yusifeng/formax. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yusifeng/formax/main/.codex/skills/formax-surface-reset-workflow/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yusifeng/formax

Made for: Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 804 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00062	$0.00804
Opus 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00322
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00161
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00080

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f3b8ab8e17ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

formax-surface-reset-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 2mo 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-surface-reset-workflow/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Formax Surface Reset Workflow

Goal

Use this skill when changing REPL clear/reset/resume behavior or any transcript surface transition that can remount Static.

Read First

docs/contracts/transcript-surface-contract.md
docs/runbooks/repl-surface-debugging.md
docs/contracts/invariants.md when ownership or sequencing is unclear

These docs are canonical. If stable surface behavior changes, update them before or with code.

Code Map

Reset helpers / queue owner:
- replaceTranscript
- queueTranscriptSurfaceReplace
- resetTranscriptSurface
- queueTranscriptSurfaceReset
- surfaceOpQueueRef
High-risk flows:
- packages/core/src/features/repl/controller/ui/
- packages/core/src/features/repl/controller/session/
- packages/core/src/features/repl/useReplController.ts
- packages/core/src/screens/repl/
- packages/core/src/runtime/bootstrap/runLegacyCli.tsx
Call sites to watch:
- onClearTerminal
- clearTerminal
- resetInkStaticOutputForStdout
- transcriptSeq remount behavior in ReplTranscript / ExpandedReplTranscript

Trigger Conditions

Use this skill whenever the change touches any of:

/resume, /clear, compact boundary transitions
Ctrl+O / Ctrl+E transcript view switches
onClearTerminal, clearTerminal, or resetInkStaticOutputForStdout
replaceTranscript, queueTranscriptSurfaceReplace, resetTranscriptSurface, queueTranscriptSurfaceReset, or surfaceOpQueueRef
files under packages/core/src/features/repl/controller/ui/, packages/core/src/features/repl/controller/session/, packages/core/src/features/repl/useReplController.ts, packages/core/src/screens/repl/, or packages/core/src/runtime/bootstrap/runLegacyCli.tsx

Minimal Workflow

Identify the exact path (/resume, /clear, Ctrl+O / Ctrl+E, compact boundary, etc.).
Route it through replaceTranscript / resetTranscriptSurface instead of local clear / remount sequencing.
Treat reset as one transaction, not scattered side effects.
Add or extend regression tests for ordering and surface reset ownership.
Run the minimum regression set below and at least one real surface smoke path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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.

2mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A f3b8ab8e17ee

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formax-surface-reset-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository yusifeng/formax (184 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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