Agent skill

Interlinked Cowork

by QuentinCody in QuentinCody/interlinked-cli

Package, test, and operate the experimental Interlinked Cowork plugin.

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Install Interlinked Cowork

skills CLI
$ npx skills add QuentinCody/interlinked-cli --skill interlinked-cowork -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install QuentinCody/interlinked-cli interlinked-cowork --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/QuentinCody/interlinked-cli.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/interlinked-cowork .claude/skills/interlinked-cowork && 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
interlinked-cowork
GitHub stars
178
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
760 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
12
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Package, test, and operate the experimental Interlinked Cowork plugin.

  • Claude Desktop versus Cowork hook gaps
  • SKILL.md covers Native evidence and limitations and Policy and host checks
  • Needs INTERLINKED_COWORK_TOKEN
  • Cowork package/capabilities/probe-prompt/report/bridge/verify/artifact

What it does

Interlinked Cowork is an agent skill from QuentinCody/interlinked-cli. Package, test, and operate the experimental Interlinked Cowork plugin. Use for Claude Desktop versus Cowork hook gaps, cowork package/capabilities/probe-prompt/report/bridge/verify/artifact, cloud versus device versus host paths, native conformance evidence, and hook runtime failures.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

The repository describes itself as: The harness for your harness. Local hooks, taste enforcement, and developer observability for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot CLI). The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Claude Desktop versus Cowork hook gaps
  • Cowork package/capabilities/probe-prompt/report/bridge/verify/artifact
  • Cloud versus device versus host paths
  • Native conformance evidence

Example prompts

  • “/interlinked-cowork”

Requirements

  • A credential in INTERLINKED_COWORK_TOKEN

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a2adc8a. 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 these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • INTERLINKED_COWORK_TOKEN

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

Context cost

Interlinked Cowork loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 760 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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 QuentinCody/interlinked-cli at commit a2adc8a, republished under its MIT licence (© QuentinCody). 760 words, ~1,641 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/interlinked-cowork/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
interlinked-cowork
description
Package, test, and operate the experimental Interlinked Cowork plugin. Use for Claude Desktop versus Cowork hook gaps, cowork package/capabilities/probe-prompt/report/bridge/verify/artifact, cloud versus device versus host paths, native conformance evidence, and hook runtime failures.

Interlinked Cowork

Cowork uses an uploaded plugin, separately from Claude Code settings. Ordinary Desktop Chat supports plugin skills but does not expose Cowork's hooks. Do not run enable --clients cowork; use interlinked cowork package --output <fresh-directory> and upload the resulting .plugin in Desktop Customize → Plugins. Requires the built standalone runtime, Node in the hook environment, and zip on the packaging host. After replacement, verify the displayed version/hooks and start a fresh task.

Native evidence and limitations

Run interlinked cowork capabilities --json. Dated native evidence is distinct from the current installation, which remains unmeasured until probed. On Desktop 1.49585.0 cloud mode, native deny, ask, input rewrite, and post-tool context were observed. Hook crashes and provider timeouts allowed synthetic writes. The guard launcher converts child failures, missing Node, and a 12-second internal deadline to explicit denial before the 15-second native deadline. If the provider never launches or kills the entire hook, this wrapper cannot enforce anything.

The ordinary plugin installs six lifecycle/tool hooks. A separate --probe package registers the larger Claude Code event catalog, including failure/subagent events, to measure availability; registration does not establish emission or enforcement. Keep fault injection confined to synthetic tasks, then disable the probe plugin. Do not retry denied actions through another tool.

Normal PostToolUse hooks match only Write, Edit, MultiEdit, NotebookEdit, Bash and the exact device Bash tool; reads/searches and unrelated connector tools do not trigger them. Probe subscriptions remain broad. Host guidance is encoded in PreToolUse additionalContext, including ordinary allows without a permission override; post-write artifact feedback is appended to host findings. Receipts still exclude guidance text. Pre-tool context delivery on the current native installation needs its own probe; local encoder tests are not native enforcement evidence.

bash
interlinked cowork package --probe --output scratch/cowork-probe-1
interlinked cowork probe-prompt
interlinked cowork report events.jsonl --effects listing.txt

Run the prompt through the native Cowork task UI; invoking the hook yourself is a unit test, not native evidence. Verify a clean synthetic directory first. Export evidence/events.jsonl and an independent listing containing PRESENT filename / ABSENT filename lines. Choose Download, rather than Download and open, for JSONL. The report refuses repeated campaigns and requires a positive control. Listing provenance, matching package/version/session and UI approval evidence still need review.

Receipts are metadata/hash-only with policy digest and native payload key names. They precede hook output: even an intended denial does not prove emission. They are not full transcripts, authenticated writer attribution, lossless session capture, or a substitute for effect evidence. Keep exports local unless sharing is authorized.

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Policy and host checks

Policy JSON: {"schema":1,"mode":"guard","deniedTools":[],"deniedPaths":[]}. Tool denials match exact native names. Paths match exact normalized native Read/Write/Edit targets, not arbitrary strings in tool content. The shared destructive-command guard handles Bash and mcp__remote-devices__device_bash. Unknown tool semantics, shell filesystem effects, browser/computer actions, connector mutations and device stage/commit remain unmeasured unless separately tested. This portable subset does not inherit repository reservations, distilled rules, supply-chain allowlists or metric baselines by itself.

Host distilled/finding rules may scope active_when.agent_source to "cowork", alone or in an array. Both runtime loaders preserve that scope; it requires the host bridge to reach the repository evaluator.

Optional bridge: { "url":"https://your-host/hook", "tokenEnv":"INTERLINKED_COWORK_TOKEN", "workspace":"project", "timeoutMs":5000 }. Credentials stay in environment variables, never in the archive. Cloud credential provisioning and public HTTPS reachability require a separate operational deployment; local loopback is not reachable from a cloud hook. The Interlinked MCP Server is a separate optional coordination service, not this bridge.

bash
interlinked cowork bridge --workspace project --root /host/project --runtime-root /native/project --token-env INTERLINKED_COWORK_TOKEN
interlinked cowork verify /host/project
interlinked cowork artifact /path/report.xlsx

The bridge binds loopback and requires a token of at least 32 characters. It accepts only explicit Read/Write/Edit targets inside the configured workspace; realpath confinement rejects symlink escapes. Native and host snapshots must agree and remain stable during evaluation. A snapshot is not a lock, authenticated writer identity, or proof of a shared mount. Unknown routes/tools, mismatched bytes, unavailable daemon/credentials and busy checks produce no allow. Host ask decisions remain native permission requests; host input rewrites conservatively deny because host-to-native path translation is not certified. Do not expose the listener directly; use an explicitly configured authenticated HTTPS deployment if needed.

cowork verify runs tsc, biome and gitleaks and compares workspace input hashes before/after. Skipped or changed inputs remain unmeasured and exit nonzero. It does not run every quality ratchet: use interlinked-verify and interlinked-quality-gates on the actual repository for configured tests, coverage, mutation, baselines and full checks.

cowork artifact checks files up to 32 MiB: bounded Office ZIP/XML parts, cached spreadsheet error markers, heuristic placeholder text and credential patterns. Native Write post-hooks also inspect supported artifacts when bytes are accessible. XML schema/CRC validity, macro safety, formula calculation, factual/citation accuracy, visual rendering and publishing authority are outside this check. Error findings or unsupported formats exit nonzero; warnings require contextual review. See docs/cowork.md for the measured matrix and deployment gaps.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/interlinked-cowork of QuentinCody/interlinked-cli.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a2adc8a

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Questions about Interlinked Cowork

What does Interlinked Cowork do?

Package, test, and operate the experimental Interlinked Cowork plugin. Interlinked Cowork is an agent skill from QuentinCody/interlinked-cli. Package, test, and operate the experimental Interlinked Cowork plugin.

When should I use Interlinked Cowork?

Interlinked Cowork fits situations like: Claude Desktop versus Cowork hook gaps; cowork package/capabilities/probe-prompt/report/bridge/verify/artifact; cloud versus device versus host paths; native conformance evidence.

How do I install Interlinked Cowork in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add QuentinCody/interlinked-cli --skill interlinked-cowork -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/interlinked-cowork in QuentinCody/interlinked-cli) into .claude/skills/interlinked-cowork in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Interlinked Cowork in Codex?

Run `npx skills add QuentinCody/interlinked-cli --skill interlinked-cowork -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/interlinked-cowork in QuentinCody/interlinked-cli) into .agents/skills/interlinked-cowork in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Interlinked Cowork 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 QuentinCody/interlinked-cli --skill interlinked-cowork -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/interlinked-cowork, .gemini/skills/interlinked-cowork, .github/skills/interlinked-cowork and .opencode/skills/interlinked-cowork in your project.

What does Interlinked Cowork need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Interlinked Cowork needs credentials named INTERLINKED_COWORK_TOKEN. Our summary lists: A credential in INTERLINKED_COWORK_TOKEN.

Does Interlinked Cowork 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 Interlinked Cowork 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 Interlinked Cowork use?

Interlinked Cowork 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 Interlinked Cowork use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k 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 Interlinked Cowork?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Interlinked Cowork: It Operations (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars), Operator Approval Loop (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars), Business Operations Skills (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars) and Setup Cowork (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Interlinked Cowork?

QuentinCody (a GitHub user) maintains it in QuentinCody/interlinked-cli, which has 178 GitHub stars. The repository holds 12 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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