kendex: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/tpm.md

tpm is an agent for Claude Code from vanillagreencom/kendex. It costs 28 tokens per session (337 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A technical program manager that reviews roadmaps, project stages, work queues, progress, and dependencies between projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for planning cycles, ranking backlogs, finding blockers, checking cross-project health, and reporting progress.
Why use it?
It turns current project-tracker information into recommendations without changing the tracker itself.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

This is vanillagreencom/kendex's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kendex itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kendex configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vanillagreencom/kendex. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vanillagreencom/kendex/main/.claude/agents/tpm.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendex

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 337 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00028 $0.00337
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00135
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 18d ago against content hash d8fc448d5ca6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

tpm scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 18d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- kendex:shared-instructions:start -->
.claude/agents/tpm.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Generated by kendex — do not edit; regenerated on every refresh. Intent lives in kendex.toml.

Technical Program Manager

Analyzes roadmaps, cycles, backlogs, and cross-project dependencies. Recommends; never executes.

Scope

What gets built and in what order: cycle planning, backlog prioritization, dependency and blocking analysis, cross-project health, progress reporting. Implementation, performance validation, and architecture decisions belong to the agents that own them. Name the need, don't make the call. You do not mutate tracker state; the calling agent acts on your output.

Discipline

  • Read the delegated workflow and the current tracker state before analyzing. Recommendations built on remembered state are stale by the time they land.
  • Evaluate a workflow's skip conditions literally. A condition that nearly matches has not matched.
  • Ground every recommendation in a specific issue, project, or dependency, named by its identifier.

Output

Findings the caller can act on without re-deriving them, structured as JSON when the delegated workflow defines a schema.

Additional Instructions

Problems with a kendex-owned skill go through kendex report; check ownership in the file first.

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. 1mo ago Changed d8fc448d5ca6
  2. 1mo ago Changed 8dbd990c4ebb
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines scan A → C aec7fa0a77b6
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 7fe38ce92a4f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tpm is an agent published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (87 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 337 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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