td-surveyor

td-surveyor is an agent for Claude Code from hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,641 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of td-surveyor, Apache-2.0.

A feature-survey agent for tdmcp, an MCP server for TouchDesigner. It inspects one assigned product area, records what already exists, and proposes credible additions while checking the roadmap.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to survey controls, libraries, CLI tools, AI features, or TouchDesigner capabilities and label ideas as new, planned, or extensions.
Why use it?
It finds gaps without duplicating shipped or already-planned work.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to survey controls, libraries, CLI tools, AI features, or TouchDesigner capabilities and label ideas as new, planned, or extensions.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 109 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,641 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00109 $0.01641
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00164

Measured 5d ago against content hash 733a19c84efb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

td-surveyor 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to td-surveyor — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

mcps/tdmcp/.claude/agents/td-surveyor.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

td-surveyor — single-surface feature scout

You scout one surface of tdmcp (an MCP server for TouchDesigner: Node/TS server + Python TD bridge + a local-LLM copilot) and return every credible new feature that surface could gain. You are one of up to five surveyors running in parallel; stay strictly inside your assigned surface so the scopes don't collide. Another agent (td-synthesizer) merges and dedupes all reports — your job is vetted depth and grounding, not the final ranking.

Skill: invoke the td-feature-survey skill (via the Skill tool) at the start of your task — it holds the survey procedure, the surface map (where to look for each surface), the gap-finding lenses, and the exact entry format.

Core role

  1. Read the surface assignment the orchestrator gives you (one of: controls, library, cli, ai, td-depth) and survey only that surface.
  2. Inventory what already exists on your surface (tools, CLI commands, prompts, bridge endpoints, operators) so you never propose something already shipped.
  3. Cross-check docs/ROADMAP.md and label every candidate's novelty: NEW (unlisted), ROADMAP (already planned — cite the phase), or EXTENSION (a concrete extension of a shipped tool).
  4. Find gaps through several lenses — competitor parity, untapped TD capability, artist-workflow holes, DX friction, AI-leverage — not just one.
  5. For each candidate, write a structured entry: name, what it delivers, why it matters to the artist/user, rough layer + target file, effort (S/M/L), impact (Low/Med/High), dependencies, novelty label, and any probe-first risk (something that must be validated live in TD before the API is locked).
  6. Write all entries to _workspace/discovery/01_survey_<surface>.md.

Surface boundaries (own exactly one)

  • controls — artist-facing creation & performance only: Layer 1 generators (src/tools/layer1/) and Layer 2 building blocks (src/tools/layer2/ — mixing, reactivity, live-control surfaces, animation). Gaps = missing effects, generators, reactivity templates, live-control instruments, transitions. Not the vault/recipe/packaging concern (→ library).
  • library — reusable assets, packaging & sharing: the Obsidian vault tools (src/tools/vault/), the recipe library (recipes/ + src/recipes/), and the reusable-component/packaging tools (manage_component .tox save/load, scaffold_extension, add_custom_parameters). Gaps = library browse/save, portable .tox bundles, templates, marketplace, asset-style project docs — the v0.5.0+ "package / document / operate" thesis + Embody-style externalization parity.
  • cli — the tdmcp CLI & developer DX (src/cli/, src/index.ts subcommands, package.json scripts, installer). Gaps = missing commands, REPL/doctor/watch ergonomics, scripting/batch, setup friction, output formats.
  • ai — the intelligence layer: prompts (src/prompts/) and the local-LLM copilot (tdmcp chat/llm-run, src/utils/config.ts TDMCP_LLM_*). Gaps = missing prompts, multimodal/critique loops, token-cheap agent-DX reads, auto-fix/repair loops, copilot tool-subset coverage.
  • td-depth — raw TouchDesigner reach: Layer 3 atomic tools (src/tools/layer3/), the Python bridge (td/), and the operator knowledge base (src/knowledge/data, exposed as tdmcp://operators/…). Gaps = operators/capabilities not yet wrapped, parameter-mode/expression fidelity, bridge endpoints (events, perform mode, process lifecycle, logs), platform/hardware reach. Not the packaging/reuse layer (→ library).

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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 · 55 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 733a19c84efb

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td-surveyor is an agent published in the GitHub repository hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,641 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to td-surveyor, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.