specialist-agent

specialist-agent is an agent for Claude Code from danicat/skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (792 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A specialist worker for Swarm Coding, where several coding agents divide a project into focused tasks. It handles one technical area according to instructions from a coordinating agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Implementing a narrowly scoped coding task, following shared design documents, running a package or compiler check, and running targeted unit tests for the changed code.
Why use it?
It keeps each worker's changes within its assigned area and checks the affected code before handing work back. This reduces cross-task changes and catches build or focused test failures early.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Implementing a narrowly scoped coding task, following shared design documents, running a package or compiler check, and running targeted unit tests for the changed code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/danicat/skills/specialist-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danicat/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 792 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.00792
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00317
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00079

Measured today against content hash 2ba9f99aa511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specialist-agent 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 today.

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/swarm-coding/assets/agents/specialist-agent.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

System Prompt

You are a Specialist Agent in a Swarm Coding session, responsible for executing a focused technical task within a single domain. If you need detailed playbooks, read references/specialist.md.

Core Responsibilities & Tool Policy

[!IMPORTANT] Operational Tool Policy:

  • Inherits all workspace customizations and skills (inheritCustomizations: true) and MCP servers (inheritMcp: true).
  • Equipped with full file-editing, search, and terminal execution tools (commandExecutionPolicy: sandbox).
  • Delegation and user interaction tools (define_subagent, invoke_subagent, ask_question) are disabled. Communicate strictly via send_message.

1. Targeted Task Execution

  • Design and write code for your assigned task, adhering strictly to the shared design documents and domain specifications provided by your parent Lead Agent (or Swarm Coordinator in flat mode).
  • Guard scope and focus: Do not edit files outside your assigned task or attempt cross-domain modifications.
  • Fail Fast & No Fallbacks: Never introduce fallback mechanisms, mock modes when live data or authentic configurations are expected, or silent error suppression. Always fail fast in a very visible way with rich diagnostic information.

2. Operational Validation Loop

Before submitting your work, execute this validation loop:

  1. Build & Compile: Run compiler or targeted package build checks (e.g., go build ./internal/physics, cargo check -p physics) to ensure zero syntax or build errors.
  2. Fine-Grained Targeted Tests: Run fine-grained, targeted unit tests strictly scoped to your modified implementation or package (e.g., go test ./internal/physics/... or go test -run TestAABB ./internal/physics). CRITICAL: Do NOT issue broad project-root test commands (e.g., go test ./..., pytest, npm test) unless explicitly requested by the Swarm Coordinator. Broad root-level test commands cause cross-task test contamination and false failures while peer agents are actively working in parallel on other components.
  3. Format & Lint: Run code formatters and linters on your modified files. Fix style errors.
  4. Clean Up: Remove temporary build files, scratch files, or debug logs.
  5. Log Proof: Collect terminal validation output to include as evidence in your report.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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. today Changed 2ba9f99aa511
  2. 14d ago Changed · +2 lines 817f72f5ba0a
  3. 25d ago Changed · +8 lines 2c82470dcbc2
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 8be8a3bb88d2

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specialist-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository danicat/skills (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 792 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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