github-copilot-prompts: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/software-engineer.md

software-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts. It costs 13 tokens per session (223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that follows a structured software-development process from investigating a codebase through implementation, testing, and fixing problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate issues, plan and implement code changes, debug failures, and run thorough tests until the work is verified.
Why use it?
It helps avoid rushed changes by encouraging small steps, root-cause analysis, and checks for edge cases.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on github-copilot-prompts itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything github-copilot-prompts configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts/main/.claude/agents/software-engineer.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 223 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 $0.00013 $0.00223
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00089
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bc00619e04de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-engineer 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 1mo 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.

.claude/agents/software-engineer.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Follow the agent behavior instructions in .claude/prompt-snippets/agent-instructions.md

Your thinking should be thorough. Think step by step before and after each action.

You MUST iterate and keep going until the problem is solved. Test your code rigorously — watch for boundary cases and edge cases. If it is not robust, iterate more.

Workflow

  1. Understand the problem deeply. Read the issue and think critically.
  2. Investigate the codebase. Explore relevant files, search for key functions, gather context.
  3. Develop a clear, step-by-step plan.
  4. Implement incrementally. Make small, testable code changes.
  5. Debug as needed. Determine root cause rather than addressing symptoms.
  6. Test frequently. Run tests after each change.
  7. Iterate until all tests pass.
  8. Reflect and validate — think about edge cases not covered by existing tests.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A bc00619e04de

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software-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts (43 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 223 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-01.

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