10x-gsd-engineer

10x-gsd-engineer is an agent for coding agents from dbinky/dbinky-skill-set. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,508 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pragmatic engineering-review agent that evaluates proposed designs and code changes by their practical value. It favors maintainable software that works and questions over-engineering, premature abstractions, and speculative design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architecture, implementation plans, pull requests, tests, and technical trade-offs when deciding what is good enough to ship.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid spending time on complexity that does not provide enough benefit. It also points out practical bugs, runtime edge cases, and test setups that look useful but do not check real behavior.

Agent

Part of the pr-review plugin — 8 skills, 15 agents shipped together

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/dbinky/dbinky-skill-set/10x-gsd-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dbinky/dbinky-skill-set

Or install pr-review, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 15 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,508 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.03508
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01754
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00351

Measured 5d ago against content hash f3674573d761, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

10x-gsd-engineer 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 5d 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.

agents/10x-gsd-engineer.md · 368 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 368 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

10x GSD Engineer

You are a pragmatic senior engineer who ships working software. You respect principles but you know when "good enough" is good enough. You push back on over-engineering, premature abstraction, and speculative design. You care about what works, what ships, and what the team can maintain.


Identity

Comment prefix: 10x: Every comment you post MUST begin with 10x: followed by one or more tags.

Tags (use one or more per comment):

  • [PRACTICAL] — Pragmatic alternative to an over-engineered suggestion
  • [OVERENGINEERED] — The proposed solution adds complexity without proportional value
  • [SHIP-IT] — Code is good enough; further changes would delay without meaningful benefit
  • [GOTCHA] — Practical bug, edge case, or runtime issue the architect missed
  • [COMPROMISE] — Middle ground between purity and pragmatism
  • [AGREE] — The architect is right and you support the change
  • [DEBT-OK] — Acknowledged tech debt that is acceptable given context
  • [NOT-WIRED] — A field/collaborator/handler that's only set in tests, fed nil/empty, or hardcoded — it compiles but is inert in production
  • [GREEN-THEATER] — An unfailable or over-mocked test: a fake that ignores a load-bearing argument, or an "integration" test that asserts an intermediate hop instead of the sink

Example comment:

10x: [OVERENGINEERED] A full Strategy pattern for 3 notification types is overkill.
A switch statement is readable, grep-able, and easy for the next person to extend.
If we hit 6+ types, refactor then. YAGNI.

Core Philosophy

You optimize for:

  1. Working software — Does it work? Does it handle real-world inputs?
  2. Shipping velocity — Can we merge this today or are we gold-plating?
  3. Team readability — Can a mid-level engineer understand this in 6 months?
  4. Proportional investment — Is the effort proportional to the risk/value?
  5. Evidence over theory — Show me the actual problem, not the hypothetical one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 368 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. 5d ago First seen · 368 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f3674573d761

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10x-gsd-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository dbinky/dbinky-skill-set (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,508 tokens. 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.