| name | designing-workflow-skills |
| description | Guides the design and structuring of workflow-based Claude Code skills with multi-step phases, decision trees, explicit workflow routing, and progressive disclosure. Use when creating skills that involve sequential pipelines, routing patterns, safety gates, task tracking, phased execution, or any multi-step workflow. Also applies when reviewing or refactoring existing workflow skills for quality. |
| source_skill_id | trailofbits-skills-plugins-workflow-skill-design-skills-designing-workflow-skills-skill-md |
| category | DevOps, cloud & operations |
| source_mirror | ../../../../../skills/by-category/devops-cloud-operations/security-reference/designing-workflow-skills/SKILL.md |
| benchmark_status | artifact_gated |
designing-workflow-skills
Use this skill when the task matches the description above or the source path clearly applies. Start with this concise entrypoint; open ../../../../../skills/by-category/devops-cloud-operations/security-reference/designing-workflow-skills/SKILL.md only when implementation details, commands, assets, or references are needed.
Workflow
- Confirm the task matches this skill's scope.
- Read the local source mirror if more detail is required.
- Follow repository-level
AGENTS.md; use one AI session only.
- Keep claims tied to files, commands, citations, or benchmark artifacts.
Verification
- Source mirror:
../../../../../skills/by-category/devops-cloud-operations/security-reference/designing-workflow-skills/SKILL.md
- Source commit:
e8cc5baf9329ccb491bfa200e82eacbac83b1ead
- Static benchmark results: see
docs/benchmark-results.md
- Runtime artifacts recorded by this entrypoint:
0
- Assigned scenarios:
skill-proof-trailofbits-skills-plugins-workflow-skill-design-skills-designing-workflow-skills-skill-md, devops-cloud-and-operations-kubernetes-examples, devops-cloud-and-operations-opentelemetry-demo, devops-cloud-and-operations-local-omero-compose-workflows
Do not claim this skill passed a runtime benchmark until a validated artifact exists.