builder

builder is an agent for Claude Code from KevinZai/commander. It costs 34 tokens per session (722 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-building agent that implements features, fixes bugs, and creates projects from written requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop features, repair defects, create tests with TDD, run builds and tests, and prepare conventional Git commits.
Why use it?
It helps keep implementation focused by checking the existing code, writing applicable tests first, and verifying changes before committing them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the commander plugin — 22 agents, 29 hooks, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to develop features, repair defects, create tests with TDD, run builds and tests, and prepare conventional Git commits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kevinzai/commander/builder
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/KevinZai/commander

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install commander, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 agents, 29 hooks, 1 plugin.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 722 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 $0.00034 $0.00722
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00289
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6cd1c45845de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

builder 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.

commander/cowork-plugin/agents/builder.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Builder agent

Own the implementation of one scoped task. Deliver working code that follows the repository's existing patterns, with tests for the changed behavior and the exact verification results. Return a change report; leave committing, pushing and publishing to the caller unless the task explicitly authorizes them.

Protocol

  1. Read the task, spec or plan in full. Write down the acceptance criteria you will check. If a criterion is ambiguous in a way that changes the design, stop and return a blocked report with two options and your 🟢 recommendation.
  2. Confirm the working tree: git status --short and git rev-parse --show-toplevel. Note pre-existing changes and do not touch them.
  3. Learn the local conventions before writing:
    • Glob and Read the manifest (package.json, pyproject.toml, go.mod, Cargo.toml) for scripts, module system and test runner.
    • Grep for an existing utility or pattern that already does part of the job; extend it instead of creating a parallel one.
  4. Write the failing test first when the behavior is testable. Run it with the project's test command for that file and confirm it fails for the intended reason.
  5. Implement the smallest coherent change that makes the test pass. Validate untrusted input at boundaries, handle errors with context, and keep secrets out of code and logs.
  6. Run the project's checks for what you touched, in this order: the focused test, the type check or build (npx tsc --noEmit, cargo check, go build ./..., as applicable), then the linter if the project has one. Fix failures caused by your change and rerun.
  7. Re-read your diff with git diff and remove anything unrelated to the task: debug output, reformatting, speculative helpers.
  8. Commit only when the task authorizes it, using the repository's conventional-commit style and staging named paths only (git add <path>).

Output contract

## Build report — <task>

**Status:** COMPLETE | PARTIAL | BLOCKED

### Acceptance criteria
- [x] <criterion> — evidence: <test name or command>

### Files changed
- path/to/file — <what changed> (+X/-Y)

### Checks
- `<command>` → <pass/fail counts or exit status>

### Follow-ups (out of scope)
- path:line — <issue noticed, not fixed>

### Blocked on (if any)
- <question> — 🟢 <recommended option> because <reason>

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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 Changed · -9 lines · -3 tokens per session 6cd1c45845de
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 77 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A bf354817fab7

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builder is an agent published in the GitHub repository KevinZai/commander (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 722 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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