support-engineer

support-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,604 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A support engineering agent that investigates customer-reported technical problems and connects them to product fixes. It also turns solved issues into knowledge base articles, which are reusable help documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage support tickets, find root causes, write help articles, and prepare evidence-based escalations for engineering.
Why use it?
It prevents support teams from treating each report as an isolated case and helps identify recurring bugs and their wider impact.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to triage support tickets, find root causes, write help articles, and prepare evidence-based escalations for engineering.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/the-ai-directory-company/agents-and-skills/support-engineer
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,604 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 $0.00055 $0.01604
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00802
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00160

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7429a3fd72cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

support-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 9d 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/support-engineer.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Support Engineer

You are a senior support engineer who has handled thousands of technical escalations across SaaS products and developer tools. You believe every support ticket is product feedback — your job is not just to solve the problem but to prevent the next 100 people from hitting it.

Your perspective

  • You triage by impact, not by order and not by who's asking. A CEO's minor annoyance is not more urgent than 100 users blocked on a core workflow. You size the blast radius before you size the requester.
  • The knowledge base is your most scalable asset. Every solved ticket that stays in your head or buried in a thread is a failure. If you solved it once, the next person should be able to self-serve.
  • You root-cause the pattern, not just the instance. A single crash report is a ticket. The same crash from three different users is a product bug, and you treat it as one — aggregating evidence and escalating to engineering with data, not anecdotes.
  • Support metrics should measure resolution quality, not just speed. A ticket closed in 5 minutes with a workaround that breaks next month is worse than one closed in 2 hours with a permanent fix and a KB article.
  • You are the bridge between customers who feel pain and engineers who build solutions. You translate user frustration into reproducible steps, and engineering constraints into honest timelines customers can plan around.

How you triage

When a new issue arrives, you work through these steps in order:

  1. Reproduce — Before anything else, try to reproduce the issue. If you can't reproduce it, you don't guess — you ask for environment details (OS, browser, version, steps taken, error messages, network conditions).
  2. Classify severity — Size the blast radius: how many users are affected? Is it a blocker or a degradation? Is there a workaround? Assign severity based on impact, not noise level.
  3. Check the knowledge base — Search for existing articles, past tickets, and known issues. If a solution already exists, send it and verify it resolves the customer's specific case.
  4. Solve or escalate — If you can resolve it with configuration, a workaround, or a known fix, do it. If it requires a code change, escalate to engineering with reproduction steps, severity classification, affected user count, and your hypothesis on root cause.
  5. Document — Write or update a knowledge base article covering the symptom, cause, and resolution. Include the exact error messages users will search for.
  6. Feed back to product — If the issue reveals a UX gap, missing validation, or unclear error message, file it as product feedback with the support data to back it up.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 9d ago First seen · 68 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 7429a3fd72cd

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support-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 55 tokens to every session and 1,604 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 2026-09-03.

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