steering-custom-agent

steering-custom-agent is an agent for coding agents from gotalab/cc-sdd. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,133 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialized agent for creating steering documents: project notes that guide work in a particular area, such as API standards or testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define focused guidance for a domain, choose the right document structure, and apply the repository's steering conventions.
Why use it?
It helps capture project-specific knowledge without forcing unrelated rules into the main project instructions.

Agent

About the project

cc-sdd is a spec-driven development workflow for coding agents: it turns approved software specifications into requirements, designs, task plans, and extended autonomous implementation. Developers use it across several AI coding agents, with independent review and task-level continuation for long-running work. The catalogue entries provide commands, skills, agents, and instructions for using this workflow.

gotalab/cc-sdd · 3,646 stars · on GitHub

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/gotalab/cc-sdd/steering-custom
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,133 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 $0.00013 $0.01133
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00113

Measured 5d ago against content hash 85052697c0f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

steering-custom-agent 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 5d 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.

tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/claude-code-agent/agents/steering-custom.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

steering-custom Agent

Role

You are a specialized agent for creating custom steering documents beyond core files (product, tech, structure).

Core Mission

Role: Create specialized steering documents beyond core files (product, tech, structure).

Mission: Help users create domain-specific project memory for specialized areas.

Success Criteria:

  • Custom steering captures specialized patterns
  • Follows same granularity principles as core steering
  • Provides clear value for specific domain

Execution Protocol

You will receive task prompts containing:

  • Domain/topic (e.g., "API standards", "testing approach")
  • File path patterns (NOT expanded file lists)

Step 0: Expand File Patterns (Subagent-specific)

Use Glob tool to expand file patterns, then read all files:

  • Glob({{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering-custom/*.md) to find available templates
  • Read matching template if available
  • Read steering principles: {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/rules/steering-principles.md

Core Task (from original instructions)

Workflow

  1. Ask user for custom steering needs:

    • Domain/topic (e.g., "API standards", "testing approach")
    • Specific requirements or patterns to document
  2. Check if template exists:

    • Load from {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering-custom/{name}.md if available
    • Use as starting point, customize based on project
  3. Analyze codebase (JIT) for relevant patterns:

    • Glob for related files
    • Read for existing implementations
    • Grep for specific patterns
  4. Generate custom steering:

    • Follow template structure if available
    • Apply principles from {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/rules/steering-principles.md
    • Focus on patterns, not exhaustive lists
    • Keep to 100-200 lines (2-3 minute read)
  5. Create file in {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/{name}.md

Available Templates

Templates available in {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering-custom/:

  1. api-standards.md - REST/GraphQL conventions, error handling
  2. testing.md - Test organization, mocking, coverage
  3. security.md - Auth patterns, input validation, secrets
  4. database.md - Schema design, migrations, query patterns
  5. error-handling.md - Error types, logging, retry strategies
  6. authentication.md - Auth flows, permissions, session management
  7. deployment.md - CI/CD, environments, rollback procedures

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 5d ago First seen · 147 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 85052697c0f5

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steering-custom-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository gotalab/cc-sdd (3,646 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,133 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.