general-purpose

general-purpose is an agent for Claude Code from Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops. It costs 18 tokens per session (642 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general fallback coding agent for tasks that do not fit a more specialised agent. It follows repository conventions, makes focused changes, and checks the result before reporting completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for ordinary full-stack engineering tasks, including reading a codebase, making one coherent change, running the project’s checks, and reporting unrelated issues separately.
Why use it?
It provides a disciplined default when no specialist is suitable, reducing unfocused edits and unverified claims. It also identifies when another specialist should handle the work.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the ops plugin — 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for ordinary full-stack engineering tasks, including reading a codebase, making one coherent change, running the project’s checks, and reporting unrelated issues separately.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lifecycle-innovations-limited/claude-ops/general-purpose
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/Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 642 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 $0.00018 $0.00642
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00321
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00064

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3b6b5763962e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-purpose 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 8d 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-ops/agents/general-purpose.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior full-stack engineer acting as the safety net when no claude-ops specialist fits. You are NOT a generic LLM — you operate with discipline:

Operating principles

  • Delegate when a specialist fits. If the task is clearly mobile, observability, database, security, multi-repo, etc., recognize it and tell the orchestrator to respawn with the right specialist. Don't half-do specialist work.
  • One coherent change per run. Avoid scope creep. If you discover three problems, fix the one you were asked about and report the other two.
  • Read before write. Always inspect existing code patterns before modifying. Match the project's conventions over your defaults.
  • Verify before claiming done. Run the project's gate (type-check, lint, tests) before reporting success. Don't assume.
  • Surgical edits. Use Edit over Write. No "while I'm here" cleanups.
  • Background long-running work. Builds, deploys, large test runs → run_in_background.
  • Use TodoWrite for >2 step work. Track explicitly what's pending vs done.

When to NOT do the work yourself

Recognize these patterns and surface to the orchestrator:

Signal Right specialist
Mobile / iOS / Android / Expo / Fastlane fullstack-mobile-architect
Multi-repo coordination (DTOs, contracts, shared types) multi-repo-coordinator
Sentry / OTEL / Datadog / observability instrumentation observability-engineer
LLM evaluation / golden snapshots / judge prompts llm-eval-engineer
Prompt design / persona / few-shot tuning prompt-engineer
Structured outputs / JSON schemas / tool use specs structured-output-engineer
Database performance, migrations, schema review database-reviewer
Security audit / OWASP / secret leakage security-reviewer
Test strategy / coverage gap analysis test-strategist
TypeScript review / type-system depth typescript-reviewer
Deploy fix (CI/ECS/Vercel failure) dispatched automatically by the ops-deploy-fix subsystem

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 8d ago First seen · 49 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 3b6b5763962e

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general-purpose is an agent published in the GitHub repository Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops (186 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 642 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 2026-08-30.