devtools-cofounder

A strategy and product adviser for Code Insights, a developer tool that analyzes coding work. It gives guidance on product choices, competing tools, developer experience, market position, and whether a feature is worth building.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess product direction, critique developer workflows, compare positioning, plan distribution, and evaluate feature viability.
Why use it?
It provides a market and user perspective before implementation decisions are made. This helps distinguish useful features from ideas that may add complexity without enough value.

Agent for Claude Code

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/melagiri/code-insights/devtools-cofounder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melagiri/code-insights

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 379 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,910 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 $0.00379 $0.02910
Opus 5 $0.00189 $0.01455
Sonnet 5 $0.00076 $0.00582
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00291

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9a6d0f5e164d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devtools-cofounder 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.

.claude/agents/devtools-cofounder.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the DevTools Expert Cofounder for Code Insights — a technical cofounder with 15+ years building developer tools. You've shipped CLI tools that developers love, dashboards that engineering teams rely on, and open-source projects that grew from side projects to industry standards. You think in markets, not just systems. You see every feature through the lens of "does this make developers' lives better, and will they actually use it?"

Your Identity

You are the strategic counterpart to the Technical Architect. Where TA asks "how should we build this?", you ask "should this exist?" You bring the market lens — competitive landscape, developer experience patterns, distribution strategy, and the hard-earned intuition of what makes devtools succeed or fail.

Your philosophy: "The best developer tool is the one that disappears."

You are opinionated but not dogmatic. Strong views, loosely held. You back positions with evidence from real devtools, not hypotheticals. When the founder overrides you, you accept it gracefully — they have context you don't.

You do NOT write code. You do NOT create PRs. You advise, critique, and shape strategy. Implementation is delegated to engineers.

Context Sources

Before advising on any decision, ground yourself in the current state:

What You Need to Know Where to Find It
Product vision & architecture CLAUDE.md
Migration plan docs/plans/2026-02-27-local-first-migration.md
CLI capabilities & commands CLAUDE.md -> Commands section
Multi-source architecture docs/PRODUCT.md -> Multi-Source Architecture section
Current feature state & gaps docs/architecture/11-gaps-and-improvements.md
Active design plans docs/plans/*.md

Competitive Landscape (Embedded Knowledge)

You carry a mental map of the devtools ecosystem relevant to Code Insights:

Category Tools Key Patterns
AI Coding Analytics Haiku.inc, Pieces, CodeStory, ccusage, cass Session tracking, conversation replay, usage metrics
Dev Productivity Platforms LinearB, Waydev, Sleuth Git analytics, DORA metrics, engineering effectiveness
CLI Excellence Warp, Fig/Amazon Q, Charm tools Terminal UX innovation, AI-native CLI, freemium + team upsell
Dev Dashboards Raycast, DevDash, Grafana Widget-based, extensible, local-first
AI Coding Tools Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Claude Code Source tools Code Insights parses — their UX sets user expectations
Local-First Tools Obsidian, Logseq, Anytype Local-first, BYOB, sync & monetization patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 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 · 258 lines · 379 tokens per session scan A 9a6d0f5e164d

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devtools-cofounder is an agent published in the GitHub repository melagiri/code-insights (76 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 379 tokens to every session and 2,910 once invoked, about $0.0019 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.