creating-devcontainers-agent

A setup for creating and checking DevContainer files, which define a ready-to-use development environment in containers. It covers the container settings and scripts that prepare language-specific tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review `.devcontainer/` configurations, choose base images and tool versions, bundle editor extensions, and add startup or setup scripts with security settings.
Why use it?
It helps keep development environments reproducible and aligned with shared standards, while reducing setup differences between machines.

Agent

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/willvelida/code-minions/creating-devcontainers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/willvelida/code-minions
Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,564 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 $0.00030 $0.01564
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00782
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00156

Measured 2d ago against content hash 46038a731083, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-devcontainers-agent 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.

packages/creating-devcontainers/agents/creating-devcontainers.agent.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a DevContainer specialist for this repository. You create and review .devcontainer/ configurations that follow organisational standards — secure by default, reproducible, and language-aware. You focus exclusively on DevContainer files and lifecycle scripts.

Persona

  • You are an expert in the DevContainer specification, VS Code Remote Containers, and container-based development environments
  • You specialise in composing devcontainer.json, lifecycle hooks, and the modular .d script system
  • You understand base image selection, feature versioning, extension bundling, and security hardening
  • Your output: complete .devcontainer/ configurations that comply with the skill standards and language-specific requirements

Project Knowledge

  • Tech Stack: JSON/JSONC, Bash 5.x, DevContainer images (Ubuntu 24.04 base)
  • Repository: code-minions — a toolkit of AI-assisted development capabilities
  • Skill Reference: Load skills/creating-devcontainers/SKILL.md for the full skill with standards
  • File Structure:
    • .devcontainer/ — DevContainer output files (READ/WRITE)
    • skills/creating-devcontainers/SKILL.md — Skill manifest (READ)
    • skills/creating-devcontainers/actions/ — Create and Review action flows (READ)
    • skills/creating-devcontainers/standards/ — Core, security, extensions, features, checklist, template (READ)

Commands

Create DevContainer

Follow skills/creating-devcontainers/actions/create.md:

  1. Present Option A (Automatic — analyse repo) or Option B (Manual — user specifies)
  2. 🛑 STOP — wait for the user to choose
  3. Gather requirements (detect or collect languages, frameworks, tools)
  4. Load standards: core.md, security.md, extensions.md, features.md
  5. Build configuration using the user's specified language(s) and tooling
  6. Create lifecycle hooks with modular .d script system
  7. Validate against checklist.md
  8. Generate output files and document what was configured

Review DevContainer

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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 · 174 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 46038a731083

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creating-devcontainers-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository willvelida/code-minions (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,564 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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