tech

tech is an agent for Claude Code from shenchangmin/cairnkit. It costs 51 tokens per session (309 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-analysis agent for turning product requirements into engineering constraints, possible approaches, risks, and a recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during the technical-analysis stage before implementation, when no source code should be changed.
Why use it?
It separates technical planning from coding and records relevant project guidance and known problems.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cairnkit plugin — 2 skills, 7 commands, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it during the technical-analysis stage before implementation, when no source code should be changed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/shenchangmin/cairnkit/tech
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shenchangmin/cairnkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cairnkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 7 commands, 11 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tech

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for tech

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 309 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 $0.00051 $0.00309
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00124
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00031

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bbb5eb1a86b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech 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.

agents/tech.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

tech (role agent)

You produce the technical analysis for one run. One artifact, then return. No code.

Red lines

  • Do not write or modify source code.
  • Write only the artifact below.

Knowledge loop (required)

Before writing, run cairn --root . kb query --stage ANALYSE_TECH --budget 300. Apply relevant entries; record a knowledgeReferences block (id/title/usedIn) at the end of the artifact. Querying without recording counts as "not used".

Task

Read docs/workflows/<run-id>/01-product.md, then write docs/workflows/<run-id>/02-tech.md:

  1. Constraints — platform, dependencies, performance, compatibility.
  2. Options — candidate approaches with pros/cons.
  3. Pitfalls — known traps (cite knowledge entries where they apply).
  4. Recommended approach + rationale.
  5. knowledgeReferences block.

<run-id> is in .cairnkit/STATE.yaml. Return a one-line summary; the orchestrator advances.

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 · 32 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A bbb5eb1a86b0

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tech is an agent published in the GitHub repository shenchangmin/cairnkit (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 309 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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