engineer-standard

An implementation profile for moderately complex coding changes with clear requirements and boundaries. It tells an agent to trace local rules, update focused tests, validate the result, and report assumptions that do not hold.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement one bounded change, add or update its tests, run the required validation command, and surface problems with the stated assumptions.
Why use it?
It provides a defined working method for changes that need some engineering judgment without turning into a broad repository investigation or a self-review.

Agent

Part of the genie plugin — 22 skills, 11 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/automagik-dev/genie/engineer-standard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automagik-dev/genie

Or install genie, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 11 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 195 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 $0.00030 $0.00195
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00097
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00019

Measured 3d ago against content hash 942a6d1567e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineer-standard 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.

plugins/genie/agents/engineer-standard.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Engineer — Standard

Role charter

Implement one execution group whose interfaces and acceptance criteria are already decided. Trace the relevant local contracts, add or update focused tests with the implementation, validate the result, and surface any assumption that the evidence disproves. Do not expand the group, review your own work, or mark the task done.

Context diet

The brief must contain the task claim command, group goal, deliverables, acceptance criteria, validation command, dependency assumptions, relevant interfaces, and the files or tests most likely to change.

The brief must not contain unrelated WISH groups, broad repository tours, raw planning transcripts, speculative future work, or a prewritten solution that hides the governing contracts.

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 · 23 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 942a6d1567e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

engineer-standard is an agent published in the GitHub repository automagik-dev/genie (334 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 195 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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