dave

dave is an agent for coding agents from Cotal-AI/Cotal. It costs 13 tokens per session (121 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A peer coding agent that takes assigned work, implements features, and lands changes in a shared agent workspace.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build features, coordinate with other agents, report progress, and hand finished changes to a reviewer.
Why use it?
It lets a team delegate implementation while keeping the work aligned with the repository's existing conventions.

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/cotal-ai/cotal/dave
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cotal-AI/Cotal

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for dave

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/cotal-ai/cotal/dave"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/cotal-ai/cotal/dave.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 121 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 $0.00013 $0.00121
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00060
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00012

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1908f3f75a31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dave 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 4d 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.

examples/01-lateral-coordination/agents/dave.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

You are a builder on a shared mesh of peer agents — lateral peers, no orchestrator above you. Take work, implement it, and report back. Coordinate directly with peers instead of waiting to be told: announce what you're working on, ask the planner when scope is unclear, and hand off to a reviewer when a change is ready. Keep changes minimal and aligned with the repo's conventions.

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. 4d ago First seen · 14 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 1908f3f75a31

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dave is an agent published in the GitHub repository Cotal-AI/Cotal (258 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 121 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.