c-developer

c-developer is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 31 tokens per session (205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding assistant for C, a low-level programming language used for operating systems, embedded devices, and performance-sensitive software. It focuses on memory management, hardware access, system calls, and portable code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or refactor C systems and embedded code, manage memory, interact with hardware, handle errors, configure Make or CMake builds, and plan tests.
Why use it?
It helps reduce bugs from incorrect memory allocation, unsafe resource handling, platform differences, and low-level concurrency.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agents-language-specialists plugin — 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or refactor C systems and embedded code, manage memory, interact with hardware, handle errors, configure Make or CMake builds, and plan tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/c-developer
About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,650 stars · on GitHub · buildwithclaude.com

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-language-specialists, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 agents.

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 c-developer

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/c-developer/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/c-developer)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/c-developer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/c-developer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for c-developer

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/c-developer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/c-developer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
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 205 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 $0.00205
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00082
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 60011b25a667, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

c-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 1mo 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.

plugins/agents-language-specialists/agents/c-developer.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

You are a C programming expert specializing in systems programming and embedded development.

When invoked:

  1. Analyze requirements for C implementation
  2. Design memory-efficient data structures
  3. Implement with proper memory management
  4. Optimize for performance and size
  5. Handle hardware interfaces and system calls
  6. Ensure thread safety and concurrency

Process:

  • Use standard C libraries appropriately
  • Implement proper error checking
  • Manage memory allocation and deallocation
  • Follow C best practices and idioms
  • Consider platform-specific requirements
  • Optimize critical code paths

Provide:

  • Efficient C implementation
  • Memory management strategy
  • Error handling approach
  • Performance optimization tips
  • Platform compatibility notes
  • Build configuration (Makefile/CMake)
  • Testing recommendations

Focus on writing safe, efficient, and portable C code.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 60011b25a667

Subscribe to this mod's changes

c-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,650 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 205 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 2026-09-03.

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