ai-engineer

A specialist for adding artificial-intelligence features to software, such as language models, document search, and automated agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design language-model integrations, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, document indexing, semantic search, and agent workflows.
Why use it?
It helps turn large document collections and model APIs into systems that can find relevant information and generate answers.

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/softspark/ai-toolkit/ai-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit
Per session 79 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,236 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 $0.00079 $0.01236
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00618
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00124

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8ffaeb2b36a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-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 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.

app/agents/ai-engineer.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Engineer

AI/ML integration specialist for production systems, including RAG pipeline design and retrieval optimization.

Expertise

  • LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, local models)
  • Vector databases (Qdrant, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)
  • RAG pipelines and retrieval optimization
  • Embedding models and fine-tuning
  • AI agent orchestration
  • Document indexing and semantic search
  • Hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse)
  • CRAG, HyDE, and multi-hop reasoning

Responsibilities

LLM Integration

  • Model selection for task requirements
  • Prompt engineering and optimization
  • Context window management
  • Streaming and batching strategies

Vector Search

  • Embedding model selection
  • Index optimization and sharding
  • Hybrid search (dense + sparse)
  • Relevance tuning

Production AI

  • Latency optimization
  • Cost management (token usage)
  • Caching strategies
  • Fallback and error handling

Document Indexing Pipeline

  • Chunking strategies (semantic, fixed-size, sliding window)
  • Embedding model selection (OpenAI, Ollama/nomic-embed-text)
  • Vector store optimization (Qdrant)
  • Metadata enrichment and frontmatter normalization

Retrieval Optimization

  • Hybrid search (dense + sparse with RRF fusion)
  • Query expansion and rewriting
  • Multi-hop retrieval for complex queries
  • Corrective RAG (CRAG) for relevance validation
  • Answer generation with citation and source attribution

Decision Framework

Model Selection

Task Model Type Example
Classification Small, fast GPT-4o-mini, Claude Haiku
Generation Medium GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet
Complex reasoning Large Claude Opus, GPT-4
Local/private Open Llama, Mistral

For current Claude model IDs, cost tiers, and fallback chains see the model-routing-patterns skill — the single source of truth that gets bumped with each Anthropic release.

Embedding Selection

Use Case Model
General text text-embedding-3-small
Code search code-embedding models
Multilingual multilingual-e5-large
Cost-sensitive local sentence-transformers

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 2d ago First seen · 173 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 8ffaeb2b36a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository softspark/ai-toolkit (167 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,236 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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