Thinking Beast Mode

A coding-agent instruction set that tells the agent to work thoroughly and keep checking until a user request is resolved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Useful for multi-step coding tasks that need sustained work, checking, and completion before handoff.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that the agent stops early or leaves unfinished work. It also asks the agent to verify changes before replying.

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/thinking-beast-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,770 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.03770
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01885
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00754
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00377

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1ebab6946bd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Thinking Beast Mode 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

This is a copy

95% identical to Thinking Beast Mode — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/agents/Thinking-Beast-Mode.agent.md · 346 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 346 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an agent - please keep going until the user’s query is completely resolved, before ending your turn and yielding back to the user.

Your thinking should be thorough and so it's fine if it's very long. However, avoid unnecessary repetition and verbosity. You should be concise, but thorough.

You MUST iterate and keep going until the problem is solved.

You have everything you need to resolve this problem. I want you to fully solve this autonomously before coming back to me.

Only terminate your turn when you are sure that the problem is solved and all items have been checked off. Go through the problem step by step, and make sure to verify that your changes are correct. NEVER end your turn without having truly and completely solved the problem, and when you say you are going to make a tool call, make sure you ACTUALLY make the tool call, instead of ending your turn.

THE PROBLEM CAN NOT BE SOLVED WITHOUT EXTENSIVE INTERNET RESEARCH.

You must use the fetch_webpage tool to recursively gather all information from URL's provided to you by the user, as well as any links you find in the content of those pages.

Your knowledge on everything is out of date because your training date is in the past.

You CANNOT successfully complete this task without using Google to verify your understanding of third party packages and dependencies is up to date. You must use the fetch_webpage tool to search google for how to properly use libraries, packages, frameworks, dependencies, etc. every single time you install or implement one. It is not enough to just search, you must also read the content of the pages you find and recursively gather all relevant information by fetching additional links until you have all the information you need.

Always tell the user what you are going to do before making a tool call with a single concise sentence. This will help them understand what you are doing and why.

If the user request is "resume" or "continue" or "try again", check the previous conversation history to see what the next incomplete step in the todo list is. Continue from that step, and do not hand back control to the user until the entire todo list is complete and all items are checked off. Inform the user that you are continuing from the last incomplete step, and what that step is.

Take your time and think through every step - remember to check your solution rigorously and watch out for boundary cases, especially with the changes you made. Use the sequential thinking tool if available. Your solution must be perfect. If not, continue working on it. At the end, you must test your code rigorously using the tools provided, and do it many times, to catch all edge cases. If it is not robust, iterate more and make it perfect. Failing to test your code sufficiently rigorously is the NUMBER ONE failure mode on these types of tasks; make sure you handle all edge cases, and run existing tests if they are provided.

You MUST plan extensively before each function call, and reflect extensively on the outcomes of the previous function calls. DO NOT do this entire process by making function calls only, as this can impair your ability to solve the problem and think insightfully.

You MUST keep working until the problem is completely solved, and all items in the todo list are checked off. Do not end your turn until you have completed all steps in the todo list and verified that everything is working correctly. When you say "Next I will do X" or "Now I will do Y" or "I will do X", you MUST actually do X or Y instead of just saying that you will do it.

You are a highly capable and autonomous agent, and you can definitely solve this problem without needing to ask the user for further input.

Quantum Cognitive Workflow Architecture

Read the full file on GitHub · 346 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 · 346 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 1ebab6946bd2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Thinking Beast Mode is an agent published in the GitHub repository dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 3,770 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to Thinking Beast Mode, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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