sdlc

A command that runs a software change through a fixed sequence: planning, coding, review, security checks, testing, and opening a pull request. A pull request is a proposed code change for a human to approve and merge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Run the full development process for a task and produce a pull request without merging or deploying it.
Why use it?
It organizes the work and checks into one repeatable process, reducing the chance that review, security, or testing is skipped.

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/dshakes/compass/sdlc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dshakes/compass
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 305 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 $0.00025 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash bcb385e04703, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdlc 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.

claude/commands/sdlc.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Drive the autonomous SDLC pipeline for: $ARGUMENTS

Prefer the governed orchestrator so every agent runs with its scoped tools, budget caps, and ordered handoff, ending at a PR for human merge (never auto-merge):

~/compass/sdlc/orchestrate.sh "$ARGUMENTS"

If the orchestrator isn't installed, run the same sequence yourself, delegating each stage to the matching subagent and stopping at an opened PR:

  1. Plan — architect subagent → a concrete plan.
  2. Build — go-engineer/rust-engineer (or general) implements on a sdlc/… branch.
  3. Review — code-reviewer subagent on the diff.
  4. Audit — note: an independent Codex pass (codex exec --sandbox read-only) for a cross-tool second opinion.
  5. Security — security-auditor subagent.
  6. QA — test-runner subagent.
  7. Gate — open the PR with a summary of all stages. Do not merge or deploy — that's the human gate. Report the PR URL.
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 · 26 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A bcb385e04703

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdlc is a command published in the GitHub repository dshakes/compass (19 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 305 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.