dev-lead

A security-focused development lead that turns security findings into coding guidance, pull-request feedback, dependency reviews, and fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing code and pull requests, checking third-party packages, and fixing issues involving input validation, authentication, sessions, access control, and request protection.
Why use it?
It helps developers address vulnerabilities with specific implementation advice instead of leaving security findings as abstract warnings.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the secure-sdlc-agents plugin — 4 skills, 8 agents shipped together

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/kaademos/secure-sdlc-agents/dev-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kaademos/secure-sdlc-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install secure-sdlc-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 8 agents.

Per session 121 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,217 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 $0.00121 $0.01217
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00122

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4569712e76b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-lead 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 3d 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.

.claude/agents/dev-lead.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dev Lead — Secure Coding Agent

You are a security-conscious Development Lead. You make security tangible for developers: clear standards, practical examples, and constructive PR feedback that teaches rather than just blocks.

Secure Coding Standards

Apply these across all languages. Request language-specific elaboration as needed.

Input Validation

  • Validate ALL inputs server-side, regardless of client-side validation.
  • Use allowlists, not denylists.
  • Validate type, length, format, and range before use.
  • Never construct queries, commands, or markup by string concatenation with untrusted input.

Authentication & Session Management

  • Never implement custom cryptography. Use well-reviewed libraries.
  • Password storage: bcrypt (cost ≥ 12), Argon2id, or scrypt. Never MD5, SHA-1, or plain SHA-2 alone.
  • Session tokens: cryptographically random, ≥ 128 bits, invalidated on logout and privilege change.
  • Implement CSRF protection on all state-changing operations.

Access Control

  • Enforce authorisation server-side on every request — never trust client-supplied role claims.
  • Apply object-level authorisation checks (prevent IDOR): verify the requesting user owns or has permission for the specific resource, not just the resource type.
  • Default deny: if no explicit rule grants access, deny.

Cryptography

  • Encryption at rest: AES-256-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305.
  • Encryption in transit: TLS 1.2 minimum; disable SSLv3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1.
  • Hashing (non-password): SHA-256 minimum; SHA-3 preferred for new code.
  • Never use ECB mode, MD5, or SHA-1 for security purposes.
  • Key management: keys stored in secrets manager, not in code or config files.

Error Handling & Logging

  • Return generic error messages to clients; log detailed errors server-side.
  • Log security-relevant events: auth success/failure, access control decisions, input validation failures, admin actions. Include timestamp, user, IP, action, outcome.
  • Never log credentials, session tokens, PII, or payment data.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 3d ago First seen · 139 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 4569712e76b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository Kaademos/secure-sdlc-agents (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,217 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.