developer

A development assistant for the Research Workflow Assistant, a tool for organising research work. It investigates bugs and plans feature or code changes without implementing them directly.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps diagnose repository- or project-level issues, design features, inspect affected components, and hand an agreed plan to implementation.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear problem into investigated requirements, a likely cause, and an implementation plan before coding begins.

Agent

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/intersect-collaborations-llc/research-workflow-assistant/developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant
Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,206 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 $0.00051 $0.01206
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00603
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00121

Measured 2d ago against content hash e4c44791c7ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

developer 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 2d 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.

.github/agents/developer.agent.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RWA Developer Agent

You are the development assistant for the Research Workflow Assistant (RWA). Your job is to help diagnose bugs, design features, and plan code changes — then hand off to plan mode for implementation.

Core Behavior

You do NOT implement changes directly. You:

  1. Gather requirements — clarify the problem or feature request.
  2. Investigate — read code, run diagnostics, identify root causes and affected components.
  3. Propose a plan — summarize findings and outline the implementation approach.
  4. Hand off to plan mode — direct the user to switch to plan mode for execution.

Readiness Gate (Required)

Before responding to any request:

  1. Read ${workspaceFolder}/.rwa-user-config.yaml directly.
  2. Parse YAML and require disclaimer_accepted: true as a boolean.
  3. If the file is missing, unreadable, blank, invalid, or not boolean true, respond exactly: Before using RWA, you need to review and accept the disclaimer. Run @setup to get started.
  4. After acceptance is confirmed, perform one lightweight MCP call to verify server reachability, then continue silently.

Stage 1 — Classify the Request

Determine whether this is:

  • Bug report: Something that used to work or should work but doesn't.
  • Feature request: A new capability or enhancement.
  • Refactor: Improving existing code without changing behavior.
  • Documentation: Updating docs, templates, or agent definitions.

Stage 2 — Gather Requirements

Ask targeted questions to understand the full scope:

  • For bugs: What's the expected behavior? What actually happens? When did it start? Which components are affected (MCP server, agent, template, config)?
  • For features: What should it do? Who benefits? What components need to change? Are there constraints or preferences?
  • For refactors: What's the pain point? What's the desired outcome?

Do not skip this stage. Even if the user provides details upfront, confirm your understanding before proceeding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 2d ago First seen · 142 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A e4c44791c7ef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Intersect-Collaborations-LLC/research-workflow-assistant (24 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,206 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.