Agent skill

Crosslink Guide

by openwpm in openwpm/OpenWPM

A skill your agent uses when working in any repo that has .crosslink/ and the workflow involves issue tracking, sessions, locks, swarms, kickoff, or knowledge pages.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Crosslink Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add openwpm/OpenWPM --skill crosslink-guide -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install openwpm/OpenWPM crosslink-guide --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/openwpm/OpenWPM.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/crosslink-guide .claude/skills/crosslink-guide && 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
crosslink-guide
GitHub stars
1.4k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~4.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
492 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when working in any repo that has .crosslink/ and the workflow involves issue tracking, sessions, locks, swarms, kickoff, or knowledge pages.

  • Working in any repo that has .crosslink/ and the workflow involves issue tracking
  • SKILL.md covers Hook awareness — the things…, Core workflow, Issue management and Sessions, plus 14 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Knowledge pages

What it does

Crosslink Guide is an agent skill from openwpm/OpenWPM. Use when working in any repo that has .crosslink/ and the workflow involves issue tracking, sessions, locks, swarms, kickoff, or knowledge pages. Reference for the full crosslink CLI surface plus the harness footguns (auto-CHANGELOG entries on issue close, --no-changelog flag, label-based skip rules, session lifecycle). Trigger when the user mentions crosslink commands, when the crosslink-behavioral-guard hook fires asking for issue creation, or when a session needs to be started/ended/handed off.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.1k 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 Development, covering Changelog and release notes and Task management. The repository describes itself as: A web privacy measurement framework.

When your agent uses it

  • Working in any repo that has .crosslink/ and the workflow involves issue tracking
  • Knowledge pages
  • The user mentions crosslink commands
  • The crosslink-behavioral-guard hook fires asking for issue creation

Example prompts

  • “/crosslink-guide”

Requirements

  • Docker

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit da628ba. 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 bash).

    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

Crosslink Guide loads about 4.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 130 tokens; SKILL.md has 492 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~130
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.1k

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); 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 492 words (~4,113 tokens).

“Crosslink is a local-first issue tracker designed for AI-assisted development. Data lives in .crosslink/issues.db (SQLite); state syncs via the crosslink/hub git branch. Read this skill when the workflow involves any crosslink command, when the crosslink-behavioral-guard hook fires, or when starting/ending…”

— opening of SKILL.md by openwpm, Custom licence
name
crosslink-guide

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/crosslink-guide of openwpm/OpenWPM.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit da628ba

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in openwpm/OpenWPM, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Categories

Questions about Crosslink Guide

What does Crosslink Guide do?

A skill your agent uses when working in any repo that has .crosslink/ and the workflow involves issue tracking, sessions, locks, swarms, kickoff, or knowledge pages. Crosslink Guide is an agent skill from openwpm/OpenWPM.crosslink/ and the workflow involves issue tracking, sessions, locks, swarms, kickoff, or knowledge pages.

When should I use Crosslink Guide?

Crosslink Guide fits situations like: working in any repo that has .crosslink/ and the workflow involves issue tracking; knowledge pages; the user mentions crosslink commands; the crosslink-behavioral-guard hook fires asking for issue creation.

How do I install Crosslink Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add openwpm/OpenWPM --skill crosslink-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/crosslink-guide in openwpm/OpenWPM) into .claude/skills/crosslink-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Crosslink Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add openwpm/OpenWPM --skill crosslink-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/crosslink-guide in openwpm/OpenWPM) into .agents/skills/crosslink-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Crosslink Guide 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 openwpm/OpenWPM --skill crosslink-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/crosslink-guide, .gemini/skills/crosslink-guide, .github/skills/crosslink-guide and .opencode/skills/crosslink-guide in your project.

What does Crosslink Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Crosslink Guide is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Docker.

Does Crosslink Guide 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 Crosslink Guide 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 Crosslink Guide use?

Crosslink Guide 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 Crosslink Guide use?

About 4.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 16k 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 Crosslink Guide?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Crosslink Guide: Kanvibe Release Deploy (rookedsysc/kanvibe, 143 stars), Release Kanban Md (antopolskiy/kanban-md, 223 stars), Workflow (waynesutton/markdown-site, 628 stars) and Simple English (moeru-ai/airi, 50k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Crosslink Guide?

openwpm (a GitHub organization) maintains it in openwpm/OpenWPM, which has 1,423 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 4, 2026.

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