worker-loop

worker-loop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zkysar1/Claude-Mind. It costs 126 tokens per session (20,777 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An execution loop for a separate worker process that selects one unit of work, claims it, executes it, and then starts again. A worker can pause and resume while a separate reducer combines the workers' results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run work units in forked worker processes, one at a time. It covers selecting, claiming, executing, re-entering the loop, parking, and closing workers.
Why use it?
It defines which responsibilities belong to workers and which belong to the reducer, avoiding multiple processes trying to combine shared results. It also lets workers wait when no work or reducer is available.

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/zkysar1/claude-mind/worker-loop
Any agent
npx skills add zkysar1/Claude-Mind --skill worker-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zkysar1/Claude-Mind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 20,777 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 $0.00126 $0.20777
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.10389
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.04155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.02078

Measured yesterday against content hash 3b027616b893, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

worker-loop 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/worker-loop/SKILL.md · 1,130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/worker-loop — Worker-Body Simplified Execution Loop (Phase 2A)

A worker Body is a forked instance of a Mind (keyed by unitKey = its session SID) that is NOT the reducer. It runs a deliberately thin loop — select -> claim -> execute -> re-enter — one work unit per pass, parking (resumable, hourly re-poll) when work or its reducer is gone, leaving its divergent working-memory for the single reducer to merge later. It does NOT verify, encode, reflect, update state, run the learning gate, evolve, or do completion review. Those are reducer-only: the one Body holding running-session-id (the reducer) applies them to the MERGED state of every Body at generalize-down (Phase 1C body-merge.py, run from aspirations-consolidate Step -1). Running encode/reflect per-worker would create N reducers — the defect the convergence forbids.

Activation status (updated 2026-08-05, fresh-eyes review): ACTIVATION IS LANDED — g-306-119-a (/start worker auto-join branch), g-306-119-b (close-body staging+push), g-306-119-c (baseline-aware merge consume) and g-306-125 (safety rails) are all completed, and a live worker executed a real goal via this loop (g-315-518 soak, DESKTOP-O91DLK2). The prior "until Phase 2C wires fork-activation" wording predated those landings. Still OPEN before trusting multi-body at scale: g-306-120 (cross-box activation dry-run), g-306-126 (live two-box soak), g-306-128 (kill-tests), and g-306-131 (three fail-safe inversions in the reducer-liveness poll this loop runs every cycle). Design SSOT: the mind-engine-identity-bridge tree node (Phase 2).

The phase split (authoritative: worker_execute.py)

The phase contract is owned by core/scripts/worker_execute.py, NOT duplicated here, so the worker and its tests agree on one source of truth:

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,130 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. yesterday Changed · -4 lines 3b027616b893
  2. 4d ago First seen · 1,134 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 1d553c8d168d

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worker-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository zkysar1/Claude-Mind (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 20,777 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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