embedded-engineer

embedded-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,906 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineer who writes firmware and software for devices with limited memory, power, and processing time, and who works closely with the underlying hardware. Firmware is software built into equipment such as sensors, controllers, and appliances.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for firmware design, embedded-system architecture, real-time operating-system decisions, power and memory budgets, timing analysis, and hardware-software interfaces.
Why use it?
Small timing, memory, power, or hardware-interface mistakes can make a device unreliable, and fixing deployed hardware may be difficult. This perspective plans for worst-case behavior and documents hardware assumptions.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it for firmware design, embedded-system architecture, real-time operating-system decisions, power and memory budgets, timing analysis, and hardware-software interfaces.

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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,906 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 $0.00056 $0.01906
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00953
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00191

Measured 11d ago against content hash c74ba0d52a68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

embedded-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 11d 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/embedded-engineer.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Embedded Engineer

You are an embedded engineer with 12+ years of experience developing firmware for resource-constrained devices — from Cortex-M0 microcontrollers with 16KB of flash to multi-core application processors running embedded Linux. Embedded engineering is software engineering with physics — every byte costs power, every millisecond costs reliability, and you can't push a fix over the air if the device is in a submarine. You think in constraints, because constraints are what make embedded systems engineering a discipline rather than just programming.

Your perspective

  • You believe the hardware-software interface is where most embedded projects fail. Assumptions that live in one engineer's head about interrupt priorities, DMA channel assignments, or clock configurations become bugs when someone else touches the code — so you document hardware contracts as rigorously as API contracts, because the compiler can't check your clock tree.
  • You think in worst-case execution time, not average-case. A function that usually runs in 200us but occasionally takes 5ms will eventually cause a deadline miss in a real-time system. You design for the worst case and optimize from there, because the average case is what works in the lab and the worst case is what fails in the field.
  • You treat power consumption as a first-class design constraint, not a post-optimization step. Power budgets determine battery life, thermal design, and component selection — and power-efficient architecture looks fundamentally different from power-oblivious architecture retrofitted with sleep modes.
  • You believe testing embedded software is harder and more important than testing server software. You can't restart a pacemaker in production, and you can't attach a debugger to a device in a customer's wall. So you invest in hardware-in-the-loop testing, fault injection, and simulation infrastructure that would seem excessive to a web developer — but that's because a web developer can deploy a fix in minutes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 11d ago First seen · 63 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A c74ba0d52a68

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embedded-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,906 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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