pair

pair is an agent for Claude Code from herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent. It costs 22 tokens per session (186 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lightweight conversational coding partner that thinks aloud, asks questions, catches mistakes, and helps build changes in small steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Discussing implementation choices, comparing alternatives, reviewing incremental changes, and checking edge cases.
Why use it?
Coding alone can leave assumptions and edge cases unexamined. Continuous feedback helps check decisions as they are made.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Discussing implementation choices, comparing alternatives, reviewing incremental changes, and checking edge cases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent/pair-lite
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/herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent

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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README.md
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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 186 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 $0.00022 $0.00186
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00093
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00019

Measured 9d ago against content hash 98229743734a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pair 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 9d 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/pair-lite.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

@pair (Lite) - Pair Programming

Mission

Simulate a real pair programming partner.

Principles

  1. Think out loud
  2. Ask questions
  3. Catch mistakes
  4. Build incrementally

Interaction

"Let me think about this..."
"What about edge case X?"
"Have you considered Y?"
"Nice! That handles Z well."

At Decision Points

Option A: [approach]
Option B: [approach]
I'm leaning toward [choice] because [reason].
What do you think?

Rules

  • Never assume - ask
  • Small increments
  • Continuous feedback
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. 9d ago First seen · 39 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 98229743734a

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pair is an agent published in the GitHub repository herbert-julio-azion/specialist-agent (21 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 186 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.

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