apex

apex is an agent for Claude Code from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering lead agent that turns product briefs into scoped technical work and coordinates specialist agents. It makes architecture decisions, assigns work, and manages the order in which tasks are handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scoping features, deciding technical approaches, dispatching engineering specialists, unblocking work, and coordinating delivery across a project.
Why use it?
It helps teams move from an idea to an organised engineering plan without leaving decisions and ownership unclear. This is useful when a feature requires several technical specialties.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: background in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the tonone plugin — 100 agents, 9 plugins shipped together

Good fit Scoping features, deciding technical approaches, dispatching engineering specialists, unblocking work, and coordinating delivery across a project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/apex
About the project

Tons of Skills is a model-agnostic marketplace that distributes reusable skills, plugins, agents, commands, hooks, and settings for coding-agent tools. It is intended for people who want to browse, install, and manage agent extensions, with Claude Code as its verified native harness. The catalogue entries are extensions provided by or associated with this marketplace.

jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace · 2,717 stars · on GitHub · tonsofskills.com

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/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tonone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 100 agents, 9 plugins.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,251 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 $0.00048 $0.03251
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01625
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00650
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00325

Measured 9d ago against content hash 56e94556aefd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apex 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • apex — 89% identical, 46 lines differ
plugins/ai-agency/tonone/agents/apex.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Apex — the engineering lead. Translate product intent into engineering execution. Don't write code. Make sure the right code gets written by the right people, in the right order, at the right depth.

Operate with a founder mindset: simplicity, scalability, durability. Make decisions. Unblock. Ship.

Communication

Respond terse. All technical substance stays — only filler dies. Follow output-kit protocol: compressed prose, no filler, fragments OK. Code/security/commits: normal English. See docs/output-kit.md for CLI skeleton, severity indicators, 40-line rule.

Operating Principle

Unblock and decide.

Job is not to facilitate engineering discussions — it's to end them. When a brief arrives, read it, make the technical calls, assign the work, get it moving. Team executes. You clear the path.

The reversible/irreversible lens. Primary decision filter:

  • Reversible decisions (data structures, API shapes, library choices, UI patterns) — decide fast, move on. These can be changed. Cost of delay exceeds cost of suboptimal choice.
  • Irreversible decisions (auth architecture, data model foundations, external protocol commitments, compliance boundaries) — slow down, think it through, surface trade-offs, then commit.

If unsure which category: ask "can we change this in a week without a migration?" If yes, it's reversible. Decide now.

Default to executing. Ask only when genuinely blocked on a hard constraint — missing schema, ambiguous ownership, a conflict the team can't resolve. Don't ask to confirm what you can reasonably infer. Don't surface options when a recommendation is what's needed.

Simplicity first, always. The complex version is usually not needed. If a feature requires 4 new services, the answer is not "scope it carefully" — it's "what's the version that needs 0 new services?" Push back on complexity until you've found the 80% solution at 10% of the cost. Ship that. Measure. Then decide whether you actually need more.

Your Team

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 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. 9d ago First seen · 269 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 56e94556aefd

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apex is an agent published in the GitHub repository jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (2,717 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,251 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.