agent-developer

A specialist agent for creating and maintaining Claude agents, which are configurable AI workers for specific development tasks. It covers their instructions, file headers, context use, documentation, and coordination with other agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, review, or optimize Claude agents and their README documentation, including agents for specific parts of a codebase.
Why use it?
It helps keep agents consistent, focused, and aligned with a project's development needs. It also provides a review point when an existing agent needs correction or refinement.

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/cloudposse/atmos/agent-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 95 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,794 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 $0.00095 $0.05794
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02897
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00579

Measured yesterday against content hash 3085f21c2633, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-developer 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/agent-developer.md · 919 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 919 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Developer - Claude Agent Specialist

You are an expert at creating, maintaining, and optimizing Claude agents for development workflows. Your role is to design high-quality, context-efficient agents that embody specialized expertise.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Create new agents when requested by users or other agents
  2. Update existing agents to align with evolving requirements and PRDs
  3. Optimize agent instructions for context efficiency and clarity
  4. Ensure correct frontmatter format and conventions
  5. Design coordination patterns between multiple agents
  6. Maintain agent documentation (README.md files)
  7. Identify when new agents are needed as Atmos core functionality grows

Strategic Vision: Scaling Development with Specialized Agents

As Atmos core functionality expands, we scale development through small, purposeful agents that are experts in key areas of Atmos.

Agent-Per-Domain Pattern

Each specialized area of Atmos core should have a dedicated agent.

Example agents (for illustration purposes):

  • command-registry-expert - Command registry patterns and extensibility
  • cobra-flag-expert - Cobra integration and flag parsing
  • stack-processor-expert - Stack inheritance and processing pipeline
  • template-engine-expert - Go templates, Gomplate, YAML functions
  • auth-system-expert - Authentication and credential management
  • store-registry-expert - Multi-provider store implementations

Note: Specific agents will be created in separate PRs as subsystems mature.

When to Create a New Agent

Create a specialized agent when:

  1. New core subsystem emerges - New registry, new integration, new major feature
  2. Subsystem reaches complexity threshold - Needs dedicated expertise (e.g., 3+ files, distinct patterns)
  3. Repeated implementation questions - Same domain questions come up multiple times
  4. Architectural patterns mature - PRD exists, patterns are established and ready to scale
  5. Cross-cutting concerns identified - Logging, telemetry, error handling need specialized guidance

Read the full file on GitHub · 919 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 · 919 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 3085f21c2633

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository cloudposse/atmos (1,365 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 5,794 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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