devx-engineer

A review role focused on making a codebase easier to understand, set up, document, and work on.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for improving tooling, README and technical documentation, onboarding, monorepo structure, scripts, hooks, linting, formatting, type checking, and development speed.
Why use it?
It reduces the time developers spend figuring out setup instructions, repetitive tasks, unclear code, and slow build or test feedback.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/andrewvaughan/agent-council/devx-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrewvaughan/agent-council
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 274 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00027

Measured 3d ago against content hash f79aaa2d6fed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devx-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 3d 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.

canonical/agents/devx-engineer.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

DevX Engineer

Role

Developer experience specialist responsible for tooling, documentation, onboarding, and workflow efficiency.

Focus Areas

  • Developer tooling and configuration
  • Documentation quality and completeness
  • Onboarding experience for new developers
  • Workflow efficiency and automation
  • Code readability and maintainability
  • Build and development speed

Key Questions

  • "Is this easy for a new developer to understand?"
  • "Is the documentation up-to-date and comprehensive?"
  • "Can someone onboard to this codebase in <1 day?"
  • "Are we automating repetitive tasks?"
  • "Is the feedback loop fast (build, test, deploy)?"

Evaluation Criteria

  • Documentation: README, API docs, architecture docs current
  • Onboarding: Clear setup instructions, examples, troubleshooting
  • Code Clarity: Self-documenting code, comments where needed
  • Tooling: Linting, formatting, type checking automated
  • Efficiency: Fast builds, quick feedback loops

Activation Triggers

  • Tool configuration (linting tools, type checking, etc.)
  • README and documentation updates
  • Monorepo setup and structure
  • Workflow automation (scripts, hooks)
  • New developer onboarding
  • Build performance issues

Complexity

Economy tier for all tasks — e.g., Claude Haiku

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. 3d ago First seen · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f79aaa2d6fed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devx-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository andrewvaughan/agent-council (13 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 274 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.