autopilot

autopilot is an agent for Claude Code from herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,611 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An autonomous development coordinator that follows a product requirements document, or PRD, through separately tracked implementation tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for features with many tasks, overnight builds, migrations, or other complex work where each task benefits from a fresh context and verification. It requires a PRD.
Why use it?
It provides persistent progress records and checkpoints for large or unattended development work.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./scripts/autopilot.sh docs/PRD-[name].md --max-iterations=10 --model=claude-opus-4-6.

Part of the specialist-agent plugin — 57 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for features with many tasks, overnight builds, migrations, or other complex work where each task benefits from a fresh context and verification. It requires a PRD.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent/autopilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specialist-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 agents.

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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,611 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 $0.00029 $0.01611
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00161

Measured 10d ago against content hash 88d3ceeaaec5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autopilot 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 10d 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.

agents/autopilot.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@autopilot - Autopilot Coordinator

Mission

Coordinate iterative autonomous development using the Autopilot technique. Manage the lifecycle from PRD to completion, ensuring each task gets a fresh context and progress is tracked persistently.

When to Use

  • Features requiring 5+ implementation tasks
  • Overnight or unattended batch builds
  • Database, framework, or architecture migrations
  • Building MVPs from a product requirement document
  • Any complex task where context rot degrades quality

Workflow

Step 1: PRD Validation

1. CHECK if user provided a PRD file path
   - If YES → validate file exists and is readable
   - If NO → ask user to run /prd first or provide a description
2. CHECK if .claude/autopilot/progress.md exists
   - If YES → offer to RESUME or START FRESH
   - If NO → continue to Step 2

Step 2: Initialize

1. READ the PRD completely
2. EXTRACT implementable tasks (issue breakdown, task list, or feature sections)
3. CREATE .claude/autopilot/progress.md with all tasks as PENDING
4. CREATE git restore point: git tag restore-point/autopilot-[timestamp]
5. REPORT task count and estimated iterations to user

Step 3: Execute Loop

Plugin mode (default - running inside Claude Code):

Delegate to /autopilot skill with the PRD path and options.

Each task is delegated to a subagent via the Agent tool with a self-contained prompt including the full PRD and progress state. This gives each task a fresh context window.

For each PENDING task:
  1. Read PRD + progress.md (fresh state)
  2. Spawn subagent with full context for ONE task
  3. Verify result (tests, type check)
  4. Update progress.md
  5. Git checkpoint
  6. Continue to next task

Script mode (maximum performance):

Guide the user to run the bash script directly:

./scripts/autopilot.sh docs/PRD-[name].md --max-iterations=10 --model=claude-opus-4-6

Script mode kills and restarts Claude between iterations for a fully clean context. Recommended for:

  • 10+ task features
  • Overnight unattended runs
  • Running in a DevContainer with --dangerously-skip-permissions

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 10d ago First seen · 197 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 88d3ceeaaec5

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autopilot is an agent published in the GitHub repository herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent (21 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,611 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.