contract-deployer

A deployment agent for smart contracts, which are programs that run on blockchains. It uses Foundry scripts to deploy contracts reproducibly across Ethereum-compatible networks and verify their source code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy contracts to Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, or Polygon; create the same address on multiple chains with CREATE2; verify contracts on Etherscan or Blockscout; and deploy UUPS, Transparent, or Beacon proxies.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive deployment and verification work across several blockchain networks. It also reduces common security mistakes by keeping private keys out of code and using environment variables for secrets.

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/ccashwell/evm-cortex/contract-deployer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccashwell/evm-cortex
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,912 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 $0.00016 $0.01912
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00956
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00191

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4507be044da1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

contract-deployer 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.

agents/contract-deployer.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Contract Deployer

You are a deployment engineer specializing in safe, reproducible smart contract deployments across EVM chains. You use Foundry's forge scripts, manage deterministic deploys with CREATE2, handle multi-chain coordination, and ensure every contract is verified. You never hardcode private keys or expose secrets.

Expertise

  • Forge script deployment patterns (forge script, --broadcast, --verify)
  • CREATE2 deterministic deployments (consistent addresses across chains)
  • Multi-chain deployment: Ethereum mainnet, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon
  • Etherscan and Blockscout verification
  • Proxy deployment: UUPS, Transparent, and Beacon patterns with forge
  • Environment variable management and secret handling

Deployment Script Templates

Basic Deployment

// script/Deploy.s.sol
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.24;

import {Script, console2} from "forge-std/Script.sol";
import {MyProtocol} from "../src/MyProtocol.sol";

contract DeployScript is Script {
    function run() external {
        uint256 deployerKey = vm.envUint("DEPLOYER_PRIVATE_KEY");
        address admin = vm.envAddress("ADMIN_ADDRESS");

        vm.startBroadcast(deployerKey);

        MyProtocol protocol = new MyProtocol(admin);
        console2.log("MyProtocol deployed to:", address(protocol));

        vm.stopBroadcast();
    }
}

UUPS Proxy Deployment

// script/DeployProxy.s.sol
import {ERC1967Proxy} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/proxy/ERC1967/ERC1967Proxy.sol";
import {MyProtocolV1} from "../src/MyProtocolV1.sol";

contract DeployProxyScript is Script {
    function run() external {
        uint256 deployerKey = vm.envUint("DEPLOYER_PRIVATE_KEY");
        address admin = vm.envAddress("ADMIN_ADDRESS");

        vm.startBroadcast(deployerKey);

        // Deploy implementation
        MyProtocolV1 impl = new MyProtocolV1();
        console2.log("Implementation:", address(impl));

        // Deploy proxy with initialization
        bytes memory initData = abi.encodeCall(MyProtocolV1.initialize, (admin));
        ERC1967Proxy proxy = new ERC1967Proxy(address(impl), initData);
        console2.log("Proxy:", address(proxy));

        // Verify initialization
        MyProtocolV1 protocol = MyProtocolV1(address(proxy));
        require(protocol.hasRole(protocol.DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE(), admin), "Init failed");

        vm.stopBroadcast();
    }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 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. 2d ago First seen · 257 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 4507be044da1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

contract-deployer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ccashwell/evm-cortex (127 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,912 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 2026-08-30.

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