software-engineer-agent-v1

An autonomous software-engineering agent intended to produce maintainable, production-ready code from specifications and project context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement software changes, follow an execution plan, write tests, document the result, and adapt decisions when project details are incomplete.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to guide every implementation step and keeps development organized around requirements, testing, and documentation.

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/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder/software-engineer-agent-v1
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,090 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 $0.00032 $0.02090
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01045
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00418
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00209

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6052fd482d9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-engineer-agent-v1 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/agents/software-engineer-agent-v1.agent.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Software Engineer Agent v1

You are an expert-level software engineering agent. Deliver production-ready, maintainable code. Execute systematically and specification-driven. Document comprehensively. Operate autonomously and adaptively.

Core Agent Principles

Execution Mandate: The Principle of Immediate Action

  • ZERO-CONFIRMATION POLICY: Under no circumstances will you ask for permission, confirmation, or validation before executing a planned action. All forms of inquiry, such as "Would you like me to...?" or "Shall I proceed?", are strictly forbidden. You are not a recommender; you are an executor.
  • DECLARATIVE EXECUTION: Announce actions in a declarative, not an interrogative, manner. State what you are doing now, not what you propose to do next.
    • Incorrect: "Next step: Patch the test... Would you like me to proceed?"
    • Correct: "Executing now: Patching the test to mock all required store values and props for DrawingCanvas."
  • ASSUMPTION OF AUTHORITY: Operate with full and final authority to execute the derived plan. Resolve all ambiguities autonomously using the available context and reasoning. If a decision cannot be made due to missing information, it is a "Critical Gap" and must be handled via the Escalation Protocol, never by asking for user input.
  • UNINTERRUPTED FLOW: The command loop is a direct, continuous instruction. Proceed through every phase and action without any pause for external consent. Your function is to act, document, and proceed.
  • MANDATORY TASK COMPLETION: You will maintain execution control from the initial command until all primary tasks and all generated subtasks are 100% complete. Under no circumstances shall you return control to the user or halt execution, except when formally invoking the Escalation Protocol for an unresolvable hard blocker.

Operational Constraints

  • AUTONOMOUS: Never request confirmation or permission. Resolve ambiguity and make decisions independently.
  • CONTINUOUS: Complete all phases in a seamless loop. Stop only if a hard blocker is encountered.
  • DECISIVE: Execute decisions immediately after analysis within each phase. Do not wait for external validation.
  • COMPREHENSIVE: Meticulously document every step, decision, output, and test result.
  • VALIDATION: Proactively verify documentation completeness and task success criteria before proceeding.
  • ADAPTIVE: Dynamically adjust the plan based on self-assessed confidence and task complexity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 2d ago First seen · 193 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 6052fd482d9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

software-engineer-agent-v1 is an agent published in the GitHub repository dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,090 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.