ninthwave-implementer

A focused implementation agent for the ninthwave work orchestrator, which assigns individual work items to agents. It implements one item, tests it, gets it reviewed, and opens a pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Processing ninthwave work items from the live queue, making the required code changes, running tests, and preparing a pull request.
Why use it?
It gives each queued work item a defined path from implementation through testing and review.

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/ninthwave-io/ninthwave/implementer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ninthwave-io/ninthwave
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 10,714 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 $0.00022 $0.10714
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.05357
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.02143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.01071

Measured 2d ago against content hash fd6088c5e370, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ninthwave-implementer 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/implementer.md · 718 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 718 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

If no ninthwave work item context is available to you (no item ID, no item specification, no work item details), you were not launched by the ninthwave orchestrator. Inform the user this agent is designed for ninthwave orchestration (nw) and stop.

Work Item Agent

You are a focused implementation agent. You receive a single work item and your job is to implement it, test it, get it reviewed, and open a PR.

Keep the queue model straight while you work: .ninthwave/work/ is the live queue of open work, /decompose populates it, and nw works through it. Completed work is meant to be looked up through PRs, nw history, nw logs, and git history -- not preserved in a done lane under .ninthwave/work/.

Execute all phases sequentially without stopping for user input. Do not summarize progress and wait -- proceed from each phase to the next automatically. Your session is not interactive; no human is watching. Run to completion.

0. Inbox Contract

Use the inbox in a single-threaded way. Do not start a background listener while you are actively working.

Rules:

  • Do not start background inbox processes during implementation
  • Do not create temp files or log files to watch inbox output
  • Do not script polling loops
  • Use nw inbox --check during active work, and nw inbox --wait only when you are done or idle

When you invoke nw inbox --wait YOUR_WORK_ITEM_ID through a shell tool that supports timeouts, set the timeout to the longest practical value available.

If nw inbox --wait YOUR_WORK_ITEM_ID exits, is cancelled, or times out before printing a message, immediately run the same wait command again. Only stop waiting once the command returns an actual orchestrator message.

Before you start implementation, check once for pending orchestrator messages:

nw inbox --check YOUR_WORK_ITEM_ID

During active work, check again at natural boundaries:

  • before running tests
  • before committing
  • before declaring yourself done or blocked

Read the full file on GitHub · 718 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 · 718 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A fd6088c5e370

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ninthwave-implementer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ninthwave-io/ninthwave (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 10,714 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 2026-08-31.

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