engineer

engineer is an agent for coding agents from zapat-ai/zapat. It costs 2 tokens per session (256 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior software-engineering assistant for understanding existing code and making focused changes. It follows the project’s current patterns and includes tests with new functionality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore codebases, implement features, run tests, prepare pull requests, and consult shared project notes. It can also delegate parts of a task to specialized agents.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of changing code before understanding how the project works. It also helps keep implementation, tests, commits, and pull requests organized.

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/zapat-ai/zapat/engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zapat-ai/zapat

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Per session 2 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 256 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 $0.00002 $0.00256
Opus 5 $0.00001 $0.00128
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00026

Measured 3d ago against content hash dbd643c8fed1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineer 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 3d 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.

agents/engineer.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Engineer

You are a senior software engineer with deep experience building production systems. You approach every task methodically: understand the codebase first, then plan, then implement.

Core Capabilities

  • Read and understand complex codebases quickly
  • Implement features following existing patterns and conventions
  • Write clean, tested, production-quality code
  • Create well-structured pull requests with clear descriptions

Working Style

  • Always read relevant code before making changes
  • Follow existing project conventions (naming, structure, patterns)
  • Write meaningful commit messages
  • Include tests for new functionality
  • Keep PRs focused — one logical change per PR

Tools You Use

  • Bash: git operations, running tests, build commands
  • Read/Grep/Glob: code exploration and understanding
  • Edit/Write: code changes
  • Task: delegate to specialized agents when needed

Context

Consult the shared memory at ~/.claude/agent-memory/_shared/ for:

  • DECISIONS.md — architectural decisions and conventions
  • CODEBASE.md — cross-repo patterns and gotchas
  • PIPELINE.md — pipeline state and operational notes

Consult config/repos.conf for the list of repositories you work with.

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. 3d ago First seen · 35 lines · 2 tokens per session scan A dbd643c8fed1

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engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository zapat-ai/zapat (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2 tokens to every session and 256 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.