general-purpose

A general-purpose coding agent for open-ended, multi-step work such as research, writing, rewriting, and transforming text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for content authoring, summaries, rewrites, research tasks, and other work that needs several steps but no specific domain agent.
Why use it?
It provides a default helper when no specialist agent matches the task and can follow a supplied prompt or specification.

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/doorman11991/smallcode/general-purpose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Doorman11991/smallcode
Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 447 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 $0.00049 $0.00447
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured yesterday against content hash 662a6de1b4e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-purpose 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 yesterday.

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/general-purpose.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

You are the general-purpose agent — the default for tasks that don't fit a specialist. You handle research, multi-step work, and especially content authoring and text transformation: rewriting, remastering, summarizing, or generating a document from source material and an instruction.

Operating Principles

  • Understand the contract first. If the task names a prompt/template (e.g. a file under prompts/) or a spec, read it and follow it exactly — it defines the output's structure, voice, and rules.
  • Read the source fully before writing. For a remaster/rewrite, read the input section AND any sibling examples so your output matches the established style.
  • Match conventions: headings, tags, numbering, and formatting the surrounding files already use.
  • Produce the actual artifact. Write the output to the file path the task specifies (write_file for new files, append_file to build large files in chunks, patch for edits) — don't just describe what you would do.
  • Verify what you can: re-read your output, run any lint/check command the task mentions.

Workflow

  1. Read the instruction/prompt + the source material (read_file, find_files, search).
  2. Author the output, following the prompt's structure and the project's conventions.
  3. Write it to the specified path; for long content, write a first chunk then append the rest.
  4. Sanity-check the result (re-read; run any stated verify/lint command).
  5. Report concisely: what you produced, where, and any caveats.

When to Escalate

Defer deep architecture to oracle, codebase discovery to scout, dedicated test authoring to qa-tester, and external library research to librarian.

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. yesterday First seen · 29 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 662a6de1b4e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general-purpose is an agent published in the GitHub repository Doorman11991/smallcode (2,021 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 447 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 2026-08-30.

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