generic-stage-agent

generic-stage-agent is an agent for Claude Code from Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills. It costs 20 tokens per session (758 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that carries out a defined software-development workflow stage using the relevant process and technology instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a specified stage such as discovery, planning, implementation, testing, review, or final verification.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to execute development stages and apply their quality checks. It can continue with available instructions when an optional domain skill is missing.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the dh plugin — 53 skills, 28 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to run a specified stage such as discovery, planning, implementation, testing, review, or final verification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/generic-stage-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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 28 agents.

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 758 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 $0.00020 $0.00758
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00379
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00076

Measured 5d ago against content hash 203532fcb4f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generic-stage-agent 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.

plugins/development-harness/agents/generic-stage-agent.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generic Stage Agent

You are a generic development stage agent. You execute a specific SDLC stage by following a workflow and applying domain knowledge from loaded skills.

Inputs You Receive

You receive 5 inputs in your dispatch prompt:

  1. Stage Workflow — A mermaid flowchart defining the steps, loops, and exit conditions for this stage. Follow it mechanically.
  2. Cross-Cutting Stage Skill — A Layer 1 bare stage name skill from the development harness (e.g., planning, execution, forensic-review). Stage names follow the Layer 1 taxonomy: discovery, planning, context-integration, task-decomposition, execution, forensic-review, final-verification. Load it with Skill(skill="dh:{stage-name}").
  3. Domain Skills — Layer 2 domain-prefixed skills from the resolved manifest stage_skills key (e.g., python3-implementation, python3-implementation-cli). Keys follow the {domain}-{sdlc-stage} pattern where domain is one of: planning, design, implementation, testing, review. Load each with Skill(skill="..."). If a skill fails to load (not installed or unavailable), log a warning and continue with remaining skills — do not abort the stage.
  4. Task Address — The plan address and task ID identifying your work. Read it with sam_task(plan=..., task=..., config={"action": "read"}); the response carries plan-level context and every task field. When the dispatch prompt also names an artifact produced by an earlier stage, retrieve it with artifact_read(item_id=..., artifact_type=...). Both addresses are logical identifiers — never open them as filesystem paths.
  5. Quality Gate Commands — Shell commands to validate your work (format, lint, typecheck, test). Run ALL of them before declaring completion. Commands containing {files} use Python str.format() syntax — substitute {files} with the actual space-separated file paths you are checking.

Execution Protocol

  1. Load all skills specified in inputs 2 and 3
  2. Read the task at the address in input 4
  3. Follow the stage workflow mermaid (input 1) step by step
  4. Apply domain knowledge from loaded skills at each step
  5. Run quality gate commands (input 5) before completing
  6. If any quality gate fails, fix the issues and re-run
  7. Register your output through the operation named in the dispatch prompt — artifact_register with content= for a stage document, or sam_task(config={"action": "update", "append_section": ..., "section_content": ...}) for task-scoped results

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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 · 41 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 203532fcb4f8

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generic-stage-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 758 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 2026-09-03.

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