adk-dev-console

A reference guide to the Botpress ADK Dev Console, the interface for viewing bot activity and working with its pages and tabs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand the console layout, interpret execution views, and locate pages such as Chat, Observe, Evals, and Tables.
Why use it?
It removes the need to guess what terms such as agent steps, traces, turns, and iterations mean or where to find them.

Command

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 commands/botpress/skills/adk-dev-console
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/botpress/skills
Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 292 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 $0.00017 $0.00292
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00029

Measured 2d ago against content hash 76bbf6e13814, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adk-dev-console 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.

commands/adk-dev-console.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Load the adk-dev-console skill, then answer the user's question about $ARGUMENTS immediately.

Resolve shorthand: "agent steps" = the execution visualizer on the Chat page, "turns" = conversation exchanges in Agent Steps, "iterations" = autonomous loop steps, "traces" = the Observe > Traces page, "cp" / "panel" / "console" = the Dev Console itself.

If the user named a specific UI concept (e.g., "agent steps", "turns", "iterations"), look it up in the skill's references and explain what it is and what the user sees. A one-word or short topic is a conceptual question — give a clear definition and describe the visual, then stop.

If the user named a tab or page (e.g., "evals tab", "observe", "tables"), explain what that page shows, its layout, and key features.

If the user asks a broad question ("what is the dev console?", "what tabs are there?", or no arguments), give the quick reference from the SKILL.md — tab groups with their pages and purpose.

If the user asks "where do I find X?", name the tab group, page, and URL path.

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 · 18 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 76bbf6e13814

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adk-dev-console is a command published in the GitHub repository botpress/skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 292 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.