agent-template-bootstrap

An agent template that chooses between a simple step-by-step pattern and a staged pattern with branching, parallel work, loops, or retries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating agents that either follow one linear path or coordinate more complex execution.
Why use it?
It helps match an agent’s structure to the complexity of the task.

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/apiksdev/axel-core/axel-agent-template-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apiksdev/axel-core
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 322 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 $0.00015 $0.00322
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash eace0f94f968, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-template-bootstrap 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 2d 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.

skills/skill-axel-core/templates/agents/AXEL-Agent-Template-Bootstrap.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

AXEL Template: Agent

<document type="reference">

  <enforcement>
    <![CDATA[
    - Read `src` attribute from <read/> elements to locate sub-templates
    - ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} resolves to plugin installation directory
    - load="on-demand" means template loads when user request matches ask keywords
    - Select appropriate sub-template based on execution pattern needed
    ]]>
  </enforcement>

  <objective>
    Navigation template for agent execution pattern selection.
    Two patterns: Linear (no stages) and Staged (with stages, branching, parallel, loop).
  </objective>

  <templates load="on-demand">
    <read src="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/skill-axel-core/templates/agents/refs/AXEL-Agent-Linear-Tpl.md"
          ask="[simple, linear, basic, straightforward, no stages]"/>
    <read src="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/skill-axel-core/templates/agents/refs/AXEL-Agent-Staged-Tpl.md"
          ask="[staged, complex, branching, parallel, loop, retry, orchestration]"/>
    <understanding>
      Linear template: Simple agents without stages, text-based execution.
      Staged template: Complex agents with stages, branching, parallel, loops.
    </understanding>
  </templates>

  <understanding/>

</document>
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. 2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A eace0f94f968

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-template-bootstrap is an agent published in the GitHub repository apiksdev/axel-core (7 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 322 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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