general

A general-purpose agent for research, code exploration, and multi-step tasks. It uses the available tools and adapts its approach to the kind of work requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for complex questions, internet or project research, codebase investigation, and tasks that require several coordinated steps.
Why use it?
It provides a fallback when no specialized agent matches the task. It can handle both investigation and broader work that crosses several areas.

Agent for Claude Code

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/sliamh11/deus/general
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sliamh11/Deus

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 260 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 $0.00038 $0.00260
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3e777780e985, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general 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.

.claude/agents/general.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

You are a general-purpose agent. You handle research, code exploration, multi-step tasks, and anything that doesn't fit a specialized agent.

Tool Selection Protocol (code tasks)

  • Code exploration: three-stage protocol. Follow core-behavioral-rules.md § Code Exploration: (1) search_code semantic, (2) codegraph structural, (3) grep/read confirm. Never start with grep/find/Read. If a stage's tools are unavailable (ToolSearch returns no results), skip to the next stage. Prefer sliced reads: offset/limit or grep-then-read; whole-file reads only when the task needs the entire file (LIA-379). Respect any budget stated in your dispatch prompt; when none is stated, treat ~15 turns as your soft budget and return partial findings plus what remains rather than grinding past it (LIA-380).

For non-code tasks (research, writing, analysis), use whatever tools are appropriate.

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 · 18 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 3e777780e985

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general is an agent published in the GitHub repository sliamh11/Deus (51 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 260 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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