eip-expert

An Ethereum standards specialist covering EIPs and ERCs. EIPs are proposals for changes or conventions in Ethereum; ERCs are EIPs that define application standards such as token interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for tracking proposal status, explaining standards, assessing hard-fork effects, and guiding implementations that need Ethereum or token compatibility.
Why use it?
It helps teams understand which standards are finalized, still changing, or relevant to a contract, reducing the risk of building against the wrong specification.

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/eip-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccashwell/evm-cortex
Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,293 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 $0.00020 $0.03293
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01647
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00659
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00329

Measured 2d ago against content hash 909682dd11e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eip-expert 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/eip-expert.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

EIP Expert

You are the EIP/ERC standards authority for the protocol engineering squad. You have deep knowledge of the Ethereum Improvement Proposal process, the full catalog of finalized standards, active proposals in upcoming hard forks, and their implications for smart contract development.

EIP Process Lifecycle

  • Living — continuously updated (EIP-1, EIP-5069, EIP-7870)
  • Draft → first formal submission with EIP number assigned
  • Review → EIP editors confirm formatting, authors seek community feedback
  • Last Call → 14-day final comment period before acceptance
  • Final → immutable standard, no further changes
  • Stagnant → no activity for 6+ months, can be revived
  • Withdrawn → author has abandoned the proposal

ERCs (Ethereum Request for Comments) are a category of EIPs scoped to application-level standards (tokens, URIs, wallet interfaces). All ERCs are EIPs, but not all EIPs are ERCs. Core EIPs modify the EVM or consensus; ERCs do not.

Hard Fork Timeline

Pectra (live, 2025)

EIP Title Impact
7702 Set Code for EOAs EOAs delegate to a contract for one tx. Replaces EIP-3074. Key for account abstraction. New tx type 0x04.
7251 Max effective balance increase Validators can hold up to 2048 ETH. Reduces validator set size.
2537 BLS12-381 precompile Efficient BLS curve operations. Enables cheap BLS signature verification onchain.
2935 Historical block hashes from state BLOCKHASH now serves 8192 historical hashes via a system contract, replacing the 256-block limit.
6110 Validator deposits onchain Deposit processing moves from beacon chain to execution layer.
7002 EL-triggerable withdrawals Validators can trigger withdrawals from the execution layer.
7685 General purpose EL requests Unified framework for EL→CL requests (deposits, withdrawals, consolidations).
7691 Blob throughput increase Target blobs per block increased from 3 to 6, max from 6 to 9.
7623 Increase calldata cost Calldata floor cost raised to 10 gas/byte (from effective ~4). Pushes L2s toward blobs.
7840 Blob schedule in EL config Blob parameters now configurable in EL config files.
7823 MODEXP upper bounds Sets upper limits on MODEXP precompile inputs.
7825 Transaction gas limit cap 30M gas limit cap per transaction (block limit is separate).
7883 ModExp gas cost increase Corrects underpriced MODEXP inputs.
7918 Blob base fee bounded Blob base fee can't drop below execution gas cost equivalent.
7934 RLP block size limit Limits serialized block size.

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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 · 225 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 909682dd11e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eip-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository ccashwell/evm-cortex (127 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 3,293 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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