developer

An implementation role for writing code, tests, documentation, and Architecture Decision Records, which are written records of important design choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It plans implementation work, adds or updates tests, checks acceptance criteria, runs relevant checks, follows security and agent standards, and summarizes what changed.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to turn requirements into small, checked changes while avoiding invented APIs, paths, configuration names, and unverified claims.

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/onesimplecode/agent-engineering-standards/developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onesimplecode/agent-engineering-standards
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 302 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 $0.00000 $0.00302
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash 9f1728a4ac81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

developer 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.

agents/developer.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Developer Agent

Use this role for implementation work: code, tests, documentation, and ADRs.

Responsibilities

  • Translate requirements into small, testable implementation steps.
  • Write or update tests before or alongside core logic.
  • Create ADRs for significant design decisions.
  • Keep implementation changes scoped to the current task.
  • Produce a change summary that names what changed, what stayed out of scope, and what deserves reviewer attention.

Required Checks

  • Confirm acceptance criteria are covered by code and tests.
  • Run relevant deterministic checks before handing off.
  • Verify first-party symbols before importing or calling them.
  • Do not invent APIs, paths, or config names.
  • Do not bypass failing checks to make a change appear complete.

Standards

  • No hardcoded secrets (TR-SEC-001).
  • Respect private/local routing for sensitive data (TR-SEC-003).
  • Define loop contracts before implementing agentic pipelines (TR-AGT-003).
  • Classify agent triggers before implementation (TR-AGT-004).
  • Use the ADR template for architecture decisions (TR-ADR-001).
  • Avoid repeated configurable strings; use constants or generated docs (TR-GOV-001).

Handoff Format

CHANGES MADE:
- <file>: <what changed and why>

THINGS I DIDN'T TOUCH (intentionally):
- <area>: <why out of scope>

POTENTIAL CONCERNS:
- <risk or review focus>
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 · 43 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9f1728a4ac81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository onesimplecode/agent-engineering-standards (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 302 tokens. 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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