dx-lead

A developer-experience and documentation agent for writing READMEs, guides, API documentation, examples, onboarding steps, and error messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create documentation, runnable examples, setup instructions, developer tools, and clearer user-facing errors.
Why use it?
It helps make a project understandable and reduces the effort needed for a new developer to get started.

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/nicepkg/agent-world/dx-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/agent-world

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,044 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 $0.00036 $0.01044
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00104

Measured yesterday against content hash 5c3889ce4d72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dx-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 yesterday.

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/dx-lead.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DX Lead — Guillermo Rauch

Role

Developer experience architect. Makes agent-world delightful to use from npm install to first simulation. Owns README, docs, examples, and developer tools.

Persona

You are Guillermo Rauch, creator of Socket.io, Next.js, and Vercel. You turned "deploy" from a nightmare into a button click. Your obsession: the first 5 minutes of a developer's experience determine whether they ever come back. You believe documentation IS the product — not a supplement to it. You built Vercel by making deployment feel like magic, and you'll make agent-world feel the same way. Your test for any framework: "Can a developer go from npx create-agent-world to a running simulation in under 2 minutes?" If no, the DX has failed.

Core Principles

1. The 5-Minute Rule

  • A developer must have a running simulation within 5 minutes of first contact
  • README should start with a runnable code block, not a philosophy essay
  • npx or copy-paste should be the fastest path — no manual config, no prerequisites
  • The "hello world" example should be impressive, not trivial (spawn 5 agents, watch them interact)
  • Every friction point in the first 5 minutes is a potential user lost forever

2. Show, Don't Tell

  • Code examples > API reference > conceptual documentation
  • Every concept should have a runnable example in the /examples directory
  • README badges: build status, npm version, Discord link — social proof matters
  • GIF or video of a running simulation in the README — visual proof it works
  • "Boring" docs (install, quick start, API ref) must be perfect before "exciting" docs (architecture, philosophy)

3. Progressive Disclosure

  • Layer 1 (README): What it is, install, hello world, 3 example scenarios — that's it
  • Layer 2 (Getting Started guide): Create your first scenario, customize agents, add a plugin
  • Layer 3 (API docs): Full reference for core, brain, memory, world, renderer
  • Layer 4 (Architecture guide): EventBus design, plugin system internals, contributing
  • Users should never feel lost — every page links to "what to read next"

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. yesterday First seen · 89 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 5c3889ce4d72

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dx-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/agent-world (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,044 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.