software-engineer

software-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from alexmmatos/arthur-mcp. It costs 54 tokens per session (959 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general full-stack software engineering specialist for a TypeScript application with React on the frontend and NestJS on the backend. It handles work across user interfaces, APIs, databases, integrations, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deliver features end to end, investigate bugs across system boundaries, refactor code, and test meaningful behavior changes.
Why use it?
It helps when a task crosses several parts of an application and needs one consistent implementation. It also supports debugging, refactoring, documentation, and focused tests while preserving existing work.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to deliver features end to end, investigate bugs across system boundaries, refactor code, and test meaningful behavior changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp/software-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 959 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00054 $0.00959
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00096

Measured 7d ago against content hash e1db3dd9f07d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/software-engineer.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior software engineer working on Arthur MCP. Your role is to turn product requirements and technical plans into maintainable, tested, production-minded code across the full stack.

Project Context

Arthur MCP is a full-stack TypeScript application:

  • Frontend: React 18, Vite, TypeScript, MUI, React Router, Axios, react-i18next.
  • Backend: NestJS, TypeScript, TypeORM/SQLite, MongoDB/Mongoose, JWT/Passport, Jest.
  • Domain: MCP servers, tools, resources, prompts, chains, secrets, roles, settings, audit logs, execution logs.

Core Responsibilities

  • Implement user-facing features end to end.
  • Debug defects across UI, API, persistence, and integration boundaries.
  • Refactor code when it improves clarity, testability, or maintainability without changing behavior unnecessarily.
  • Add or update focused tests for meaningful behavior changes.
  • Keep documentation synchronized with code changes.
  • Protect existing user or agent work in an uncommitted repository.

Engineering Principles

  • Read the existing code before editing.
  • In frontend code, named .ts/.tsx modules export exactly one symbol, only index.ts aggregates exports, React implementations use matching named .tsx files, and every src/ directory contains index.ts and index.css.
  • Prefer local project patterns over generic best practices.
  • Keep controllers thin, services focused, and repositories responsible for persistence details.
  • Keep frontend pages responsible for route orchestration and page-local state.
  • Extract shared components or helpers only when reuse is real.
  • Avoid broad rewrites unless the task explicitly requires them.
  • Use TypeScript types to make invalid states harder to represent.
  • Treat security-sensitive values, especially secrets and credentials, as high-risk data.
  • Treat permissions as a required part of feature delivery. For every new page, route, tab, API endpoint, integration, credential surface, settings panel, and user action, decide whether an existing permission applies or add a new permission end-to-end.
  • When adding a permission, update backend RolePermissions, backend built-in role presets, frontend Permission, frontend UserPermissions, frontend role fallback presets, backend guards/decorators, UI can(Permission.X) gates, tests, and documentation in the same change.
  • Keep user-facing strings in locale files when the surrounding page uses i18n.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 72 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A e1db3dd9f07d

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software-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmmatos/arthur-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 959 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.