Agent skill

Agent Workflow

by menkesu in menkesu/awesome-pm-skills

Sets up how you and your team build and work with AI agents, and produces an Agent Workflow Charter (agent lanes, plan-mode loop, autonomy ladder with promotion criteria, rules file, review policy…

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Install Agent Workflow

skills CLI
$ npx skills add menkesu/awesome-pm-skills --skill agent-workflow -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install menkesu/awesome-pm-skills agent-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/menkesu/awesome-pm-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/agent-workflow .claude/skills/agent-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
agent-workflow
GitHub stars
429
Token cost
~5.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,968 words
Files
4 (incl. references, assets)
Skills in repo
25
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Sets up how you and your team build and work with AI agents, and produces an Agent Workflow Charter (agent lanes, plan-mode loop, autonomy ladder with promotion criteria, rules file, review policy…

  • Works in 3 steps: Diagnose (ask before answering) → Pick the play → Run it
  • You ask how should we work with Claude Code / Codex / Cursor
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, Step 1 - Diagnose (ask before…, Step 2 - Pick the play and Step 3 - Run it, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Agent Workflow is an agent skill from menkesu/awesome-pm-skills. Sets up how you and your team build and work with AI agents, and produces an Agent Workflow Charter (agent lanes, plan-mode loop, autonomy ladder with promotion criteria, rules file, review policy, security rules, rollout plan). Use when you ask 'how should we work with Claude Code / Codex / Cursor', 'how many agents should I run', 'should the agent be autonomous', 'plan mode', 'CLAUDE.md', 'AI-native team', 'roll out AI to my team', or 'my agent keeps screwing up'. Draws on 110 Lenny's Podcast guests incl…

Its SKILL.md is about 5.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files and assets (for example `references/frameworks.md` and `references/quotes.md`).

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Agent instruction files, Planning and Podcasting. The repository describes itself as: Product management workflows grounded in Lenny's Podcast, for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

When your agent uses it

  • You ask how should we work with Claude Code / Codex / Cursor
  • How many agents should I run
  • Should the agent be autonomous
  • Roll out AI to my team

Example prompts

  • “how should we work with Claude Code / Codex / Cursor”
  • “how many agents should I run”
  • “should the agent be autonomous”
  • “/agent-workflow”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Diagnose (ask before answering)
  2. Pick the play
  3. Run it

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c1b6e2d. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Agent Workflow loads about 5.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~13k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 145 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,968 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~145
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~13k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,968 words (~5,213 tokens).

“Turn 'we use AI agents' into a written operating system: which agents own which lanes, how much autonomy each has earned, how work gets planned, verified and reviewed, and who is accountable. Built from 447 insights from 110 Lenny's Podcast…”

— opening of SKILL.md by menkesu, Custom licence
name
agent-workflow

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references, assets) in skills/agent-workflow of menkesu/awesome-pm-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/card.png
  • references/frameworks.md
  • references/quotes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c1b6e2d

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Questions about Agent Workflow

What does Agent Workflow do?

Sets up how you and your team build and work with AI agents, and produces an Agent Workflow Charter (agent lanes, plan-mode loop, autonomy ladder with promotion criteria, rules file, review policy…. Agent Workflow is an agent skill from menkesu/awesome-pm-skills. Sets up how you and your team build and work with AI agents, and produces an Agent Workflow Charter (agent lanes, plan-mode loop, autonomy ladder with promotion criteria, rules file, review policy, security rules, rollout plan).

When should I use Agent Workflow?

Agent Workflow fits situations like: you ask how should we work with Claude Code / Codex / Cursor; how many agents should I run; should the agent be autonomous; roll out AI to my team.

How do I install Agent Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Agent Workflow in Codex?

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

Can I use Agent 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 menkesu/awesome-pm-skills --skill agent-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/agent-workflow, .gemini/skills/agent-workflow, .github/skills/agent-workflow and .opencode/skills/agent-workflow in your project.

What does Agent Workflow need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Agent Workflow is instructions for the agent only.

Does Agent 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 Agent 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 Agent Workflow use?

Agent Workflow has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Agent Workflow use?

About 5.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 21k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 8k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Agent Workflow?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Agent Workflow: Init My Project (MCSLTeam/MCServerLauncher-Future, 121 stars), Project Prompt Creator (Philip-Cao-9527/code-note-helper, 273 stars), Business Problem To Blueprint (zanecole10/software-tailor-skills, 104 stars) and Handoff (anombyte93/prd-taskmaster, 604 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Agent Workflow?

menkesu (a GitHub user) maintains it in menkesu/awesome-pm-skills, which has 429 GitHub stars. The repository holds 25 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: menkesu/awesome-pm-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.