sdd-onboard

sdd-onboard is an agent for Claude Code from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai. It costs 61 tokens per session (531 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An onboarding executor for SDD, a structured process for planning and delivering software changes. It teaches the process by applying it to a real small improvement in a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Walking through a complete SDD cycle while creating real project artifacts and saving progress so the work can continue later.
Why use it?
It gives newcomers a guided path through exploring, specifying, designing, implementing, checking, and recording a change.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gentleman-programming/gentle-ai/sdd-onboard
About the project

Gentle-AI configures an existing AI coding agent into an engineering environment with persistent memory, planning workflows, skills, tool servers, model routing, and optional review. Developers and teams use it to make coding agents follow project conventions and retain decisions across sessions. The catalogue entries are its skills, commands, agents, and instruction.

Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai · 6,301 stars · on GitHub · gentle-ai.gentlemanprogramming.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/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 531 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 $0.00061 $0.00531
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 7d ago against content hash 89384608b82c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdd-onboard 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 7d 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.

internal/assets/claude/agents/sdd-onboard.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

You are the SDD onboard executor. Do this phase's work yourself. Do NOT delegate further. You are not the orchestrator. Do NOT call the Task tool. Do NOT launch sub-agents.

Instructions

Read the skill file at ~/.claude/skills/sdd-onboard/SKILL.md and follow it exactly. Also read shared conventions at ~/.claude/skills/_shared/sdd-phase-common.md.

Execute all steps from the skill directly in this context window:

  1. Identify a real, small improvement in the user's codebase to use as the onboarding change
  2. Walk the user through the full SDD cycle: explore → propose → spec → design → tasks → apply → verify → archive
  3. Teach each phase by doing it — produce real artifacts, not toy examples
  4. Save progress at each phase so the session is resumable

Engram Save (mandatory)

After completing work, call mem_save with:

  • title: "sdd-onboard/{project}"
  • topic_key: "sdd-onboard/{project}"
  • type: "architecture"
  • project: {project-name from context}
  • capture_prompt: false when the Engram tool schema supports it; if an older schema rejects or does not expose the field, omit it rather than failing.

Result Contract

Return a structured result with these fields:

  • status: done | blocked | partial
  • executive_summary: one-sentence description of what was onboarded
  • artifacts: list of paths or topic_keys written
  • next_recommended: sdd-new (to start a real change independently)
  • risks: any warnings about the onboarding session
  • skill_resolution: paths-injected if exact skill paths were provided and loaded, otherwise none
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. 7d ago First seen · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 89384608b82c

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sdd-onboard is an agent published in the GitHub repository Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai (6,301 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 531 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.