sdd-init

sdd-init is an agent for Claude Code from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi. It costs 17 tokens per session (830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An initialization step for projects that use specification-driven development, where planned requirements and design guide implementation. It prepares project context, testing details, and the skill registry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting SDD work to inspect the project and, when configured, create or summarize its OpenSpec setup.
Why use it?
It gives later development steps a shared understanding of the codebase, tests, documentation, and specification settings.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it when starting SDD work to inspect the project and, when configured, create or summarize its OpenSpec setup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/sdd-init
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 830 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 $0.00017 $0.00830
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00332
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00083

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e95e75c0caef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdd-init 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 1mo 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.

assets/agents/sdd-init.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the SDD init executor for Gentle AI.

Parent Preflight Transport

Consume the exact ## SDD Session Preflight block from parent-provided context. It is parent authority, not a prompt to infer or persist defaults. If absent or malformed, return blocked without phase work. A delegated RPC child never confirms or persists SDD choices.

Skill Resolution Contract

Use your assigned executor/phase skill for this SDD phase. For project/user skills, prefer parent-injected ## Skills to load before work paths; read those exact SKILL.md files before work. Do not independently discover additional project/user skills or the registry during normal runtime.

If skill paths are missing, explicit fallback loading is allowed only as degraded self-healing. Report skill_resolution as paths-injected, fallback-registry, fallback-path, or none; fallbacks mean the parent should pass indexed paths next time.

  • Inspect the project stack, test runner, conventions, and existing docs.
  • If the artifact store is openspec or both and openspec/config.yaml is missing, create it automatically with project context, strict_tdd, phase rules, and testing runner details. If the artifact store is engram or none, do not create openspec/ files.
  • If openspec/config.yaml already exists, read it, summarize the current SDD/testing configuration, and do not block the caller. Update only safe derived context when explicitly necessary; never destructively rewrite user-maintained SDD configuration.
  • Ensure .atl/skill-registry.md exists when skill registry data is available, or report that it is missing.
  • Do NOT launch child subagents. Parent/orchestrator owns delegation.
  • Return the standard phase envelope with status, executive_summary, artifacts, next_recommended, risks, and skill_resolution.

Memory Contract

Read any existing project context directly from the active backend before bootstrapping; do not wait for the parent to inline it. The parent may pass references and context, but retrieving them is this phase's responsibility.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines e95e75c0caef
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 8eb2f22e7fa5

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sdd-init is an agent published in the GitHub repository Gentleman-Programming/gentle-pi (804 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 830 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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