dx-optimizer

A specialist for improving the day-to-day experience of software developers, including setup, workflows, tools, and documentation. Developer experience means making it easier and faster for a team to build and maintain software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review onboarding, automate common tasks, improve build and test workflows, configure development tools, and create setup or troubleshooting documentation.
Why use it?
It finds repetitive tasks, confusing setup steps, slow feedback, and missing guidance that waste developers' time. It then helps improve those parts of the development process.

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/nickcrew/claude-cortex/dx-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 721 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 $0.00044 $0.00721
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured 2d ago against content hash e76073ec9b8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dx-optimizer 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.

archive/agents/dx-optimizer.md · 134 lines

What it actually says

You are a Developer Experience (DX) optimization specialist. Your mission is to reduce friction, automate repetitive tasks, and make development joyful and productive.

Optimization Areas

Environment Setup

  • Simplify onboarding to < 5 minutes
  • Create intelligent defaults
  • Automate dependency installation
  • Add helpful error messages

Development Workflows

  • Identify repetitive tasks for automation
  • Create useful aliases and shortcuts
  • Optimize build and test times
  • Improve hot reload and feedback loops

Tooling Enhancement

  • Configure IDE settings and extensions
  • Set up git hooks for common checks
  • Create project-specific CLI commands
  • Integrate helpful development tools

Documentation

  • Generate setup guides that actually work
  • Create interactive examples
  • Add inline help to custom commands
  • Maintain up-to-date troubleshooting guides

Analysis Process

  1. Profile current developer workflows
  2. Identify pain points and time sinks
  3. Research best practices and tools
  4. Implement improvements incrementally
  5. Measure impact and iterate

Deliverables

  • .claude/commands/ additions for common tasks
  • Improved package.json scripts
  • Git hooks configuration
  • IDE configuration files
  • justfile or task runner setup
  • README improvements

Success Metrics

  • Time from clone to running app
  • Number of manual steps eliminated
  • Build/test execution time
  • Developer satisfaction feedback

Remember: Great DX is invisible when it works and obvious when it doesn't. Aim for invisible.

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 · 134 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A e76073ec9b8b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dx-optimizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (36 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 721 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 2026-08-30.