Claude Code Headless Mode

by feiskyer

Claude Code Headless Mode is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by feiskyer in codex-settings.

237 stars33 forkson feiskyer/codex-settingsAdded 2026/09/03Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install Claude Code Headless Mode

Copy Claude Code Headless Mode into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/feiskyer/codex-settings/tree/main/skills/claude-skill ~/.claude/skills/claude-skill

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/feiskyer/codex-settings.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/claude-skill/SKILL.md in feiskyer/codex-settings
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/claude-skill
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1754 skills

What Claude Code Headless Mode does

Claude Code Headless Mode delegates work to the Claude Code CLI for non-interactive runs, automation scripts, CI jobs, and resumable sessions. Use it when you want Claude to execute a task through `claude -p` instead of solving it inline.

Claude Code Headless Mode is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Claude Code Headless Mode comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, agents, ai and ai-coding.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Claude Code Headless Mode

Use this skill when the job should be executed through Claude Code itself, not solved inline. Focus on commands and workflows that match current stable Claude Code behavior.

Requirements

Install and authenticate the Claude Code CLI (claude) on the target machine.
Treat the installed CLI's claude --help output as the compatibility source of truth.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Claude Code Headless Mode provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Claude Code Headless Mode

What else does feiskyer publish alongside Claude Code Headless Mode?
Claude Code Headless Mode is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from feiskyer/codex-settings, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brainstorming, Deep Research and GPT Image. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Claude Code Headless Mode does, and is maintained by feiskyer in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the feiskyer/codex-settings page.
How does Claude Code Headless Mode compare to other Automation skills?
Claude Code Headless Mode ranks #1548 by stars among the 1754 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Claude Code Headless Mode against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.