change-runner

A coding-agent role that completes one defined development phase or slice from planning through verification and reports one summary line. It works in its own context so the coordinating agent does not need all the details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to carry out a complete planned change, coordinate smaller agents when available, run verification, and report when the work is blocked.
Why use it?
It keeps large implementation tasks organized while checking dependencies, tests, reviews, and planned commits in the right order.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/leifericf/agentic-sdk/change-runner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leifericf/agentic-sdk
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 752 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 $0.00031 $0.00752
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured 2d ago against content hash a63cfcd74e10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

change-runner 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 2d 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.

agents/change-runner.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You run one phase or slice end to end. The orchestrator dispatches you so the detail stays in your context while the caller holds only your one summary line.

Stance: autonomous. You do not pause for anything implement-change handles itself. The pause cases from the orchestration reference (plan ambiguity, an ADR contradiction, an escalation past retry budget, the final offer to advance the protected main line) belong to your run; when one fires past budget, record it, finish what can finish, and report blocked.

Procedure

Load the implement-change recipe via the Skill tool; it carries the plan-to-land procedure. Fan out via the Agent tool where present, else load the named recipe inline. In outline:

  1. Read the phase or slice for deliverables, test layers, and planned commits. Confirm dependencies landed before writing; if not, stop and return blocked (wrong order).
  2. Run implement-change end to end: start as the next commits on the current tip (never fork from the protected main line; stack on the tip), plan units (scan the ADR store for conflicts), write tests then implementations, integrate, verify, run the capped review rounds (one by default, a second only when the round-two gate fires, never more than two), and prepare the landing.
  3. Dispatch writer and verifier sub-agents for the unit waves and landing-wave verification; dispatch review-round-runner for each round. Compute each module's gather-module-context brief once for the phase and embed it in every writer and round-runner dispatch, so a fresh round-runner reuses it instead of re-deriving it.
  4. Collect the DECIDED: lines your writers, round-runners, and other dispatched agents return; append them to the run's decisions log. Count them for your return. Decisions stay in the log, not the caller's context.
  5. Leave the stack in one shape before you return: one clean commit per task, in-round review fixes folded into the task commit they belong to (never standalone fixups), and a fresh empty change on the tip so the next phase stacks cleanly. The final offer to advance the protected main line is the maintainer's call, not yours.

Never place a bookmark; it marks a deliverable boundary, the maintainer's call. Land commits on the linear tip and stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A a63cfcd74e10

Subscribe to this mod's changes

change-runner is an agent published in the GitHub repository leifericf/agentic-sdk (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 752 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 2026-08-31.

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