Agent skill

Edit Workflow

by ethereum in ethereum/execution-specs

Apply repository conventions when editing GitHub Actions workflows.

CC0-1.0Auto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Edit Workflow

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ethereum/execution-specs --skill edit-workflow -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ethereum/execution-specs edit-workflow --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/edit-workflow .claude/skills/edit-workflow && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
edit-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~365 tokens
SKILL.md length
175 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
CC0-1.0

At a glance

Apply repository conventions when editing GitHub Actions workflows.

  • Tasks that involve CI/CD
  • SKILL.md covers Action Version Pinning…, Runner Selection and Validation
  • Calls just

What it does

Edit Workflow is an agent skill from ethereum/execution-specs. Apply repository conventions when editing GitHub Actions workflows.

Its SKILL.md is about 370 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering CI/CD. It works with GitHub Actions. The repository describes itself as: Specification for the Execution Layer. Tracking network upgrades. The licence is CC0-1.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve CI/CD

Example prompts

  • “/edit-workflow”

Requirements

  • Docker

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3d544d7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • just

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Edit Workflow loads about 365 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 20 tokens; SKILL.md has 175 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~20
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~365

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ethereum/execution-specs at commit 3d544d7, republished under its CC0-1.0 licence (© ethereum). 175 words, ~365 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/edit-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
edit-workflow
description
Apply repository conventions when editing GitHub Actions workflows.

Edit Workflow

GitHub Actions conventions. Run this skill before modifying workflow files in .github/.

Action Version Pinning (Required)

All actions must be pinned to commit SHA with version comment:

yaml
uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
  • Never use version tags alone (@v4 is wrong)
  • Local actions (./.github/actions/*) are exempt from pinning

Runner Selection

Self-hosted runners ([self-hosted-ghr, size-*-x64]) are a shared EF devops pool — reserve them for jobs that need the capacity. Non-critical or low-load jobs belong on GitHub-hosted runners (ubuntu-latest), which also avoids a provisioning wait (~2.5 min) if the self-hosted warm pool is exhausted.

  • Pattern: lightweight job (short runtime, no heavy parallelism) → ubuntu-latest (e.g. spec-tools in #3177).
  • Anti-pattern: defaulting a quick gate, lint, or cache-restore job to size-xl-x64 "to be safe".
  • Exception: a job may need self-hosted for reasons other than load, e.g. Docker Hub pulls from GHR egress IPs to dodge per-IP rate limits (#3185 keeps push runs self-hosted while PR runs use ubuntu-latest).

If unsure which runner a job needs, flag it and ask instead of guessing.

Validation

Run just lint-actions before committing to validate YAML syntax and structure.

© ethereum, CC0-1.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/edit-workflow of ethereum/execution-specs.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3d544d7

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Edit Workflow next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Questions about Edit Workflow

What does Edit Workflow do?

Apply repository conventions when editing GitHub Actions workflows. Edit Workflow is an agent skill from ethereum/execution-specs. Apply repository conventions when editing GitHub Actions workflows.

When should I use Edit Workflow?

Edit Workflow fits situations like: tasks that involve CI/CD.

How do I install Edit Workflow in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ethereum/execution-specs --skill edit-workflow -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/edit-workflow in ethereum/execution-specs) into .claude/skills/edit-workflow in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Edit Workflow in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ethereum/execution-specs --skill edit-workflow -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/edit-workflow in ethereum/execution-specs) into .agents/skills/edit-workflow in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Edit Workflow in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ethereum/execution-specs --skill edit-workflow -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/edit-workflow, .gemini/skills/edit-workflow, .github/skills/edit-workflow and .opencode/skills/edit-workflow in your project.

What does Edit Workflow need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Edit Workflow needs the command-line tools its instructions call (just). Our summary lists: Docker.

Does Edit Workflow access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Edit Workflow safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Edit Workflow use?

Edit Workflow is published under the CC0-1.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Edit Workflow use?

About 365 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Edit Workflow?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Edit Workflow: Analyze GitHub Action Logs (withastro/astro, 63k stars), GitHub Actions Templates (bartstc/vite-ts-react-template, 122 stars), Nushell (ccusage/ccusage, 19k stars) and Repo Hygiene Scan and Fix (QwenLM/qwen-code, 28k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Edit Workflow?

ethereum (a GitHub organization) maintains it in ethereum/execution-specs, which has 1,195 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: ethereum/execution-specs on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.