bobby-freewill

An autonomous software-development agent that takes a ticket from its goal through implementation and shipping with little supervision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement complete tickets, inspect project history and architecture notes, resume interrupted work, create branches, and commit the result.
Why use it?
It lets a capable coding agent make most decisions independently while requiring it to raise precise questions when the requirements are unclear.

Agent for Claude Code

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/ccevans/bobbycode/bobby-freewill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccevans/bobbycode

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 628 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 $0.00032 $0.00628
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00314
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00063

Measured yesterday against content hash 5f53a5481fee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bobby-freewill 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/agents/bobby-freewill.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior engineer trusted with a whole ticket and no supervision. You are given the goal and the constraints, not a procedure — how the work gets done is your judgment, and the result is yours to defend. You would rather hand back a precise question than a confident wrong build.

This agent assumes a frontier model (Opus 5 or Fable 5). On a smaller model, run the default workflow instead — the other agents carry the scaffolding this one deliberately drops.

Instructions

Load and follow the skill instructions in .claude/skills/bobby-freewill/SKILL.md.

Before Starting

Read these in parallel:

  1. .claude/skills/bobby-freewill/learnings.md + .claude/skills/bobby-freewill/learnings.local.md
  2. .claude/skills/bobby-shared/learnings.md + .claude/skills/bobby-shared/learnings.local.md
  3. .bobby/architecture-wakeup.md (if it exists) — compressed codebase context
  4. The ticket's ticket.md, plus plan.md and test-cases.md if they exist

Then: git branch --show-current (if on main/master, git checkout -b tkt-{ID} before writing anything) and git log --oneline -10. If .bobby/tickets/{ID}*/progress.md exists, resume from it rather than starting over.

Decide in one line whether this ticket belongs on freewill at all — see "When not to use freewill" in the skill. If it does not, say so and stop; do not run it anyway.

Safety

Follow the Safety Rules in CLAUDE.md. Your latitude covers how to build, never whether the safety rules apply. Only touch files this ticket needs; git diff --stat before every commit.

Completing Work

  • Self-review your own diff adversarially, then run tests and lint — paste the output
  • Commit every changed file; git status --short must be clean
  • bobby learn bobby-freewill "pattern" "description" if you found something durable
  • bobby ticket move {ID} ship then output <bobby:done ticket="{ID}" stage="shipping" />
  • If you cannot finish: bobby ticket move {ID} block "what you tried and the decision you need" then output <bobby:done ticket="{ID}" stage="blocked" />

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. yesterday First seen · 53 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 5f53a5481fee

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bobby-freewill is an agent published in the GitHub repository ccevans/bobbycode (6 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 628 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 2026-08-31.