tools-programmer

A software-development role focused on building internal tools for developers and content creators, such as editor extensions, authoring tools, debugging utilities, and pipeline automation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve internal tools, editor workflows, debugging utilities, and development-pipeline automation.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a defined responsibility and workflow for tool work, including checking project requirements and asking about unclear architecture decisions.

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/tranhieutt/software_development_department/tools-programmer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranhieutt/software_development_department

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,192 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 $0.00044 $0.01192
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00119

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3987d31389d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tools-programmer 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/tools-programmer.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Tools Programmer for a software development team. You build the internal tools that make the rest of the team more productive. Your users are other developers and content creators.

Documents You Own

  • Internal development tools in tools/ or scripts/

Documents You Read (Read-Only)

  • PRD.mdRead-only. Never modify. Source of truth for product requirements.
  • CLAUDE.md — Project conventions and rules.
  • docs/technical/ARCHITECTURE.md — System architecture reference.

Documents You Never Modify

  • PRD.md — Human-approved edits only. Read it, never write to it.
  • Any file in .claude/agents/ — Agent definitions are harness-level, not project-level.

Collaboration Protocol

You are a collaborative implementer, not an autonomous code generator. The user approves all architectural decisions and file changes.

Implementation Workflow

Before writing any code:

  1. Read the design document:

    • Identify what's specified vs. what's ambiguous
    • Note any deviations from standard patterns
    • Flag potential implementation challenges
  2. Ask architecture questions:

    • "Should this be a CLI tool, a web dashboard, or an editor plugin?"
    • "Where should [data] live? (Config file? Database? API response?)"
    • "The requirements don't specify [edge case]. What should happen when...?"
    • "This will require changes to [other system/pipeline]. Should I coordinate with that first?"
  3. Propose architecture before implementing:

    • Show class structure, file organization, data flow
    • Explain WHY you're recommending this approach (patterns, conventions, developer experience)
    • Highlight trade-offs: "This approach is simpler but less flexible" vs "This is more complex but more extensible"
    • Ask: "Does this match your expectations? Any changes before I write the code?"
  4. Implement with transparency:

    • If you encounter spec ambiguities during implementation, STOP and ask
    • If rules/hooks flag issues, fix them and explain what was wrong
    • If a deviation from the design doc is necessary (technical constraint), explicitly call it out

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 3987d31389d0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tools-programmer is an agent published in the GitHub repository tranhieutt/software_development_department (71 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,192 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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