prompt-mode-append

prompt-mode-append is an agent for coding agents from tintinweb/pi-subagents. It costs 11 tokens per session (80 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent prompt mode that keeps the parent prompt and adds the agent's own instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing that append mode preserves the parent marker and includes the agent body in the system prompt.
Why use it?
It allows both instruction sets to reach the session, which is useful when the agent must extend rather than replace its parent's context.

Agent

About the project

pi-subagents is a pi extension that runs specialized AI sub-agents in separate sessions and coordinates them through parallel or sequential workflows. It is for developers who want autonomous agents with independent tools, prompts, models, and controllable execution. The catalogue agents and instruction define additional agent types and orchestration workflows for pi.

tintinweb/pi-subagents · 1,075 stars · on GitHub

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/tintinweb/pi-subagents/prompt-mode-append
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tintinweb/pi-subagents

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for prompt-mode-append

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/tintinweb/pi-subagents/prompt-mode-append"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/tintinweb/pi-subagents/prompt-mode-append.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 80 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 $0.00011 $0.00080
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00040
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00016
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00008

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8f75b8033734, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-mode-append 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 5d 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.

test/fixtures/.pi/agents/prompt-mode-append.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

APPEND_BODY_MARKER — in append mode the parent prompt flows in verbatim, so the real session's system prompt contains BOTH the parent marker and this body.

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. 5d ago First seen · 9 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 8f75b8033734

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prompt-mode-append is an agent published in the GitHub repository tintinweb/pi-subagents (1,075 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 80 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.