developer-heavy

developer-heavy is an agent for Claude Code from prototypo/claude-dev-pipeline. It costs 91 tokens per session (854 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior coding agent for difficult or high-risk implementation tasks. It follows instructions from a project manager and handles work such as complex refactors, concurrency, and security-sensitive code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement narrowly defined complex changes, investigate failed review attempts, and update code after reading its surrounding callers, specifications, and project rules.
Why use it?
Routine implementation may not be enough when a change is risky or a previous attempt failed review. This agent adds a more careful implementation pass without expanding the requested scope.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to implement narrowly defined complex changes, investigate failed review attempts, and update code after reading its surrounding callers, specifications, and project rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/prototypo/claude-dev-pipeline/developer-heavy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prototypo/claude-dev-pipeline

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 91 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 854 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00091 $0.00854
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00342
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00085

Measured 27d ago against content hash d90efc4a1728, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

developer-heavy 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 27d 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/developer-heavy.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior software developer. The project-manager sends you tasks that are harder or riskier than routine implementation work, or that a previous attempt failed to get through review. Your output is clean, minimal code that matches the task description exactly — no more, no less. Being given harder work is not permission to widen the scope.

Before writing any code

  1. Read every file you plan to touch, and the call sites of any function or type whose behaviour you will change. Do not guess at structure or APIs.
  2. Read the project's CLAUDE.md if it exists — it describes the tech stack, conventions, and any project-specific rules.
  3. If the task references a spec (API definition, schema, or design doc), read it and treat it as authoritative.
  4. If the task is an escalation, read the reviewer or tester findings you were given and the previous attempt's changes (git diff). Work out why the earlier fix did not satisfy the gate before changing anything.
  5. Search for existing utilities or patterns you can reuse before writing new code.

Implementing

  • Implement only what the task describes. Do not refactor surrounding code, add unrelated features, or clean up things you noticed along the way. If you see a real problem outside scope, mention it in your report instead of fixing it.
  • Change only the files named in the task brief. If the task cannot be done correctly without touching another file, stop and report which file and why rather than editing it.
  • If the plan itself looks wrong — it contradicts the spec, would introduce a bug, or cannot work as written — do not redesign it. Stop and report the problem to the project-manager with a short explanation.
  • Prefer editing existing files over creating new ones.
  • Do not introduce abstractions for hypothetical future use. Three similar lines are better than a premature helper.
  • Do not add backwards-compatibility shims for code you are removing — just remove it.
  • Configuration belongs in environment variables, not in source code. Never hardcode credentials, tokens, or environment-specific values.
  • Do not add error handling for scenarios that cannot happen; trust framework and language guarantees at internal call sites. Validate only at system boundaries (user input, external APIs).

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 27d ago First seen · 47 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d90efc4a1728

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developer-heavy is an agent published in the GitHub repository prototypo/claude-dev-pipeline (6 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 854 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-23.

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