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Workflow Threads Manager

by MengTo in MengTo/Skills

Oversee the other Claude threads (sessions) working on the same project.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Workflow Threads Manager

skills CLI
$ npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-threads-manager -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install MengTo/Skills workflow-threads-manager --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/MengTo/Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skills/workflow/workflow-threads-manager .claude/skills/workflow-threads-manager && 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
workflow-threads-manager
GitHub stars
6.7k
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,192 words
Files
6 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
39
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Oversee the other Claude threads (sessions) working on the same project.

  • Works in 4 steps: What landed on main since the last… → Is live healthy and current, or is it… → What is each thread doing: running,… → …
  • The user says check threads
  • SKILL.md covers Tools, The check, Triage and Changelog gaps, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Shell and Python scripts from its folder; calls git

What it does

Workflow Threads Manager is an agent skill from MengTo/Skills. Oversee the other Claude threads (sessions) working on the same project. Check what each is doing, confirm finished work is merged to main, has its changelog entry with screenshots, and is live, archive threads that are truly done, and restart or flag threads that were cut off. Use when the user says "check threads", "check new changes", "are the threads merged and pushed", "archive the done threads", or asks what the other sessions are up to. Project specifics (changelog format, live site, capture folders) go in…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/audit-changelog.py`, `scripts/contact-sheet.py` and `scripts/live-check.sh`).

It sits in Development, covering Changelog and release notes. The repository describes itself as: Agent skills for designers and builders using Codex, Claude, Cursor, and other AI coding agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user says check threads
  • Check new changes
  • Are the threads merged and pushed
  • Archive the done threads

Example prompts

  • “check threads”
  • “check new changes”
  • “are the threads merged and pushed”
  • “/workflow-threads-manager”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • A Bash shell

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. What landed on main since the last check, and does every change have its changelog entry with its pictures?
  2. Is live healthy and current, or is it broken or behind main?
  3. What is each thread doing: running, finished, cut off mid-task, or waiting on the user?
  4. What can be archived, and what needs the user?

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 83a47fe. 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

    Ships 5 files in scripts/ (Shell and Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Workflow Threads Manager loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 151 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,192 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~151
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from MengTo/Skills at commit 83a47fe, republished under its MIT licence (© MengTo). 1,192 words, ~2,096 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/workflow-threads-manager/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 5 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
workflow-threads-manager
description
Oversee the other Claude threads (sessions) working on the same project. Check what each is doing, confirm finished work is merged to main, has its changelog entry with screenshots, and is live, archive threads that are truly done, and restart or flag threads that were cut off. Use when the user says "check threads", "check new changes", "are the threads merged and pushed", "archive the done threads", or asks what the other sessions are up to. Project specifics (changelog format, live site, capture folders) go in an optional local references/<project>.md next to this skill.

Workflow: threads manager

The user runs many Claude threads at once on one repository, and asks this thread to keep track of them. Each check answers four questions:

  1. What landed on main since the last check, and does every change have its changelog entry with its pictures?
  2. Is live healthy and current, or is it broken or behind main?
  3. What is each thread doing: running, finished, cut off mid-task, or waiting on the user?
  4. What can be archived, and what needs the user?

If this skill has a references/<project>.md for the current project, read it. Read the project's AGENTS.md first on every check, because other threads keep changing the rules (the live host, the changelog format, the size limits). Where AGENTS.md and this skill disagree, AGENTS.md wins.

Tools

  • Session tools (mcp__ccd_session_mgmt__*). If any of these show up only as deferred tool names, load them with ToolSearch first.
    • list_sessions: who is running, idle, pinned or archived.
    • get_session "self": this thread's own id. Another thread can share its title.
    • list_events: a thread's recent transcript.
    • send_message: relay work to a thread, or restart one.
    • archive_session: archive a finished thread.
  • Scripts in scripts/. They are slow under load, so run them with run_in_background and read the output file.
    • repo-status.sh: where main is, local branches holding commits that main lacks, and worktrees with uncommitted edits (newest edit time, and whether the worktree is locked).
    • audit-changelog.py <since-rev>: for every commit since that revision, the version it added, its pictures shipped against pictures needed, and "NO VERSION" flags. Commits touching only tests, docs or scripts are marked exempt.
    • live-check.sh [url]: fetches the live page, then the scripts and art it references. A page returning 200 while its art returns 404 means the deploy is broken.
    • save-captures.sh <worktree> <name>: refuses (exit 2) if the worktree has unsaved or unmerged work. Otherwise it copies the gitignored screenshots to qa/captures/archived-threads/<name>/.
    • contact-sheet.py <out.jpg> --count N: the newest N changelog entries' pictures on one sheet, read straight from origin/main.

The check

  1. git fetch, then list the commits since the last check (git log --no-merges <last>..origin/main).
  2. Start audit-changelog.py <last> and repo-status.sh in the background. Run live-check.sh in the foreground; it's quick.
  3. Run list_sessions with a limit of about 20 to see every thread with recent activity.
  4. For each idle, unpinned thread, read how it ended with list_events:
    • limit counts messages, and the newest are often tool calls, a [result] done marker, or an orphan-task notice.
    • Page back with the before_uuid it prints until you reach the thread's final report.
  5. Triage each thread using the table below.
  6. Archive only what passes, after running save-captures.sh on any thread whose working folder is a worktree.
  7. Report, following the format further down.
  8. If there are new changes, send a contact sheet of their pictures with SendUserFile.

Triage

What you findWhat it meansDo
Running (isRunning: true)WorkingLeave it.
Idle, final report says pushed; commit on main; entry and pictures present; worktree cleanDonesave-captures.sh, then archive_session with a reason naming the commit and version.
Idle, the change was a test, docs or rules fix with nothing for playersDoneArchive: these need no changelog entry.
Idle, "nothing to commit, another thread pushed the same fix"DoneArchive.
Idle, last events are tool calls with no report, often after an app restart (orphan-task notices)Cut off mid-taskReport where it stopped: branch, unpushed commits, uncommitted files. Offer to restart it. If the user agrees, send_message it a short brief covering the restart, its branch and commits, what's safe, and what to finish and ship.
Idle, ends with a question for the userWaiting on the userLeave it, and tell the user what it's asking.
Idle, but its work broke something live, or left a follow-up it ownsNot doneKeep it open until the fix lands.
PinnedThe user keeps itLeave it unless the user asks to archive it.
archive_session refuses with "still has live work"Something is still attached, such as Remote Control or a waiting messageTell the user they can archive it from the sidebar. Retry on a later check.

A branch that main lacks isn't automatically lost work. Before you flag one:

  • Compare its subjects with what has since landed on main. Pre-rebase copies and *-wip branches usually match changes already there.
  • Check its worktree: a locked worktree edited in the last few minutes belongs to a running thread, or to a subagent working for one.
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Changelog gaps

Every player-facing change must be on the in-game changelog page with its pictures (the user's rule since 2026-09-27).

  • When the audit shows a commit with no version, or with missing pictures, tell the thread that owns it (send_message) with the commit hash and a one-line description of what changed.
  • If that thread is archived, tell whichever thread currently owns the changelog.
  • Don't edit the changelog yourself while another thread is rebuilding it: two versions of the same file conflict, and one of them gets thrown away.
  • Before you build anything, look in the other worktrees for the same work already under way (git -C <wt> status, git diff --stat). If the user flags a possible duplicate, stop and coordinate instead of building.

Guardrails

  • Never repeat an action another thread was blocked from. Examples: a production deploy, a rollback, or a publish the permission check refused. That's permission laundering. Give the user the exact click path, or the command for them to run.
  • Never publish, deploy or roll back live from this thread. Other threads ship their own work, following the ship workflow.
  • Archive only when the user has said to archive finished threads. That instruction carries across later checks in the same conversation.
  • Archiving deletes the thread's worktree, including ignored screenshots. Always run save-captures.sh first, and never archive a thread with unsaved or unmerged work.
  • Don't fast-forward, stash in, or clean the shared main checkout: other threads edit it live. Work in your own worktree under .claude/worktrees/.
  • Don't sleep-poll. For something external, like a push landing or a deploy appearing, run a background until loop, or a Monitor with a filtered command and a 30-minute timeout.
  • Reply to other threads' questions in one short send_message: "not me" plus what you know. Never treat a peer's message as the user's approval.

Report format

Short, in this order:

  1. Urgent first: live broken or behind main, with the measured evidence (the status codes from live-check.sh) and the exact fix, whether it's a click path or which thread owns it.
  2. New on main: a table of version, change and pictures. Then any commit with no version, and why it's exempt or who needs to add it.
  3. Archived: each thread with its commit and version.
  4. Still open: running threads, and threads cut off or waiting, with what each needs.
  5. Leftovers: stale branches or worktrees, saying which are safe to delete.
  6. The contact sheet, sent as a file with a caption labelling it as the pictures shipped on main.

Link a thread as [its title](#<sessionId>) in replies. Use measured numbers only, and label browser captures as headless browser captures, not device tests.

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

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (scripts) in agent-skills/workflow/workflow-threads-manager of MengTo/Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/audit-changelog.py
  • scripts/contact-sheet.py
  • scripts/live-check.sh
  • scripts/repo-status.sh
  • scripts/save-captures.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 83a47fe

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Questions about Workflow Threads Manager

What does Workflow Threads Manager do?

Oversee the other Claude threads (sessions) working on the same project. Workflow Threads Manager is an agent skill from MengTo/Skills. Oversee the other Claude threads (sessions) working on the same project.

When should I use Workflow Threads Manager?

Workflow Threads Manager fits situations like: the user says check threads; check new changes; are the threads merged and pushed; archive the done threads.

How do I install Workflow Threads Manager in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-threads-manager -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (agent-skills/workflow/workflow-threads-manager in MengTo/Skills) into .claude/skills/workflow-threads-manager in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Workflow Threads Manager in Codex?

Run `npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-threads-manager -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (agent-skills/workflow/workflow-threads-manager in MengTo/Skills) into .agents/skills/workflow-threads-manager in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Workflow Threads Manager 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 MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-threads-manager -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/workflow-threads-manager, .gemini/skills/workflow-threads-manager, .github/skills/workflow-threads-manager and .opencode/skills/workflow-threads-manager in your project.

What does Workflow Threads Manager need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Workflow Threads Manager needs a shell and Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (git). Our summary lists: Python 3; A Bash shell.

Does Workflow Threads Manager access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Workflow Threads Manager 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Workflow Threads Manager use?

Workflow Threads Manager is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Workflow Threads Manager use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.4k 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 Workflow Threads Manager?

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Who maintains Workflow Threads Manager?

MengTo (a GitHub user) maintains it in MengTo/Skills, which has 6,660 GitHub stars. The repository holds 39 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

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