principal-developer

principal-developer is an agent for Claude Code from vedanta/the-system. It costs 33 tokens per session (4,804 once invoked), scanned A, original, LGPL-3.0.

A lead development agent that turns approved plans into technology-aware implementation plans and coordinates specialist developers. It is used after the project receives approval to proceed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan implementation, assign work to development specialists, and review the quality of their completed work.
Why use it?
It gives development work a clear coordinator and a final quality check. The description does not specify which technologies or planning formats it supports.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan implementation, assign work to development specialists, and review the quality of their completed work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vedanta/the-system/principal-developer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vedanta/the-system

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,804 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 unknown 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 $0.00033 $0.04804
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01922
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00961
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00480

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 86e2b441ec62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principal-developer 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 1mo 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/principal-developer.md · 585 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed LGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed LGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 First seen · 585 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 86e2b441ec62

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principal-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository vedanta/the-system (9 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed LGPL-3.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 4,804 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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