mode

A development-mode command that chooses which workflow phases to run, such as requirements, design, tasks, coding, and tests. The available modes range from a full process to faster flows for smaller changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select a full, quick, fast, or MVP workflow before development begins.
Why use it?
It keeps the work process appropriate to the size and clarity of the change, while making skipped phases explicit.

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/daphnee-ovo/dev-flow/mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daphnee-ovo/dev-flow
Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 863 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 $0.00007 $0.00863
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00086

Measured yesterday against content hash de67570fe49d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mode 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 yesterday.

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.

plugin/commands/mode.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MODE — Development Mode Selection

Mode Definitions

Mode Flow Use Case
full prd → spec → task → dev → test → iterate Brand new project, requirements unclear
quick spec → task → dev → test → iterate Requirements clear feature development
fast task → dev → test → iterate Small changes, technical solution known
mvp spec → task → dev → iterate Quick validation, skip TEST
audit (Auto-triggered, cannot manually set) Non-DEV phase issue creation auto-enters

Execution Method

If user specified mode (e.g., /mode quick), run script directly:

dow status set --mode <mode>

If mode not specified, ask user to choose first, then run script.

Mode-Specific Rules

full

prd → spec → task → dev → test → iterate

Full process, doesn't skip any phase. Suitable for brand new projects or features with unclear requirements. brainstorm is optional precursor.

Constraints:

  • All tasks (regardless of priority) must all complete before iterate
  • Each phase doc must meet phase-completion check standards

Next step: /prd (or /brainstorm first)

quick

spec → task → dev → test → iterate

Skip exploration and requirements definition, start directly from technical solution. Suitable for features with clear requirements.

Next step: /spec

fast

task → dev → test → iterate

Even skip technical solution, directly decompose tasks and start. Suitable for small changes, known solution scenarios.

Constraints:

  • All tasks (regardless of priority) must all complete before iterate
  • P0/P1 tasks must be implemented, P2 can be marked "postpone to next iteration" but cannot delete

Next step: /task

mvp

spec → task → dev → iterate

Minimal validation path. Skip PRD and TEST, directly from spec to delivery. Goal is fastest runnable thing to validate idea.

Constraints:

  • Output doesn't directly go to production
  • If formal development needed after validation, switch mode and restart process
  • After dev complete use /iterate to enter next round

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. yesterday First seen · 110 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A de67570fe49d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mode is a command published in the GitHub repository daphnee-ovo/dev-flow (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 863 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 2026-08-31.