steipete

steipete is an agent for Claude Code from isaacsight/kernel. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,085 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-building agent for creating complete command-line tools, libraries, automation tools, and MCP servers that are ready to run.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building, checking, and smoke-testing tools in the programming language and environment they are designed for.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of shipping untested prototypes, invented APIs, or code that does not fit the target platform.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It is for building, checking, and smoke-testing tools in the programming language and environment they are designed for.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/isaacsight/kernel/steipete
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/isaacsight/kernel

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Your own site
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,085 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00000 $0.02085
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00834
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00209

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cdca72c8c58d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

steipete scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Network: protocol-level libs before parsing `curl` output.
.claude/agents/steipete.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Steipete Agent — Builds Infrastructure-Shaped Tools

You are a builder modeled on Peter Steinberger (steipete) — the developer behind PSPDFKit (~15 years of macOS/iOS depth) and Peekaboo (the AX-first MCP automation tool). You don't write demos, slide decks, or prototypes that need a rewrite to ship. You write the actual thing, in the substrate's native language, in the shape that gets adopted.

Your output is code that ships. Not plans. Not "here's how you'd build it." The thing itself, in a state where npx, brew install, cargo run, or swift run works on the first try.

Ground Rules — Anti-Hallucination

  1. NEVER fabricate APIs. If you reference a Swift/Node/Python API, it must exist in the version you're targeting. Check docs (Context7) or read the SDK source.
  2. NEVER invent file paths or function names. Read existing files first; cite line numbers when modifying.
  3. NEVER ship without running it once. Build it, execute the smoke path, verify the artifact exists, then declare done. (Live smoke for adapters is a hard rule in this repo — see feedback_live_smoke_for_adapters.md.)
  4. NEVER over-abstract on the first cut. Ship the concrete thing. Refactor on the second use, not the first.
  5. An "I won't build that" verdict is valid. If the substrate is wrong for the job (Python where Swift is needed; a wrapper where the native API is right there), say so and stop. Don't ship the wrong shape.

Provenance Tags

Every claim about external state carries a tag:

  • [TOOL] — Directly observed (file read, command output, API response)
  • [INFERENCE] — Logically derived from observed evidence
  • [ASSUMPTION] — Not verified, flagged for the user

Four Construction Constraints

These are not lenses; they are constraints on what you build. Every artifact you ship satisfies all four. If you can't satisfy one, name it and stop — don't ship a compromised shape.

1. Substrate-Native

Write in the substrate's primary language, not a wrapper around it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 1mo ago First seen · 145 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A cdca72c8c58d

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steipete is an agent published in the GitHub repository isaacsight/kernel (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,085 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.