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.
npx agentmods add commands/neuromechanist/research-skills/epic-devgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neuromechanist/research-skillsWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00017 | $0.02554 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00009 | $0.01277 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00511 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00255 |
Grade A, and why
epic-dev 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Epic Development Workflow
Orchestrate multi-phase feature development using git worktrees, GitHub issues with sub-issues, and phased PR delivery. Load the project:workflow-reference skill immediately for reference context.
Core Principles
- Full automation: Execute all git, gh, and worktree commands automatically
- Confirm only at strategic points: epic plan, implementation plan, critical review findings, final merge
- Use absolute paths: Bash calls do not persist
cd; always use full worktree paths - Track progress: Use TodoWrite to track all phases and steps
- No emojis: Never use emojis in commits, PRs, or issues
- Model routing: Keep epic design, observation, approvals, and synthesis on Fable when available, otherwise Opus. Delegate approved-plan implementation, focused review, and validation to named Sonnet agents. Escalate unresolved architecture and high-risk invariants back to the lead model.
- GitHub prose: Semantic line breaks remain the prose-source default, but GitHub issue and PR bodies are the exception. Keep each paragraph on one source line, separate paragraphs with blank lines, and do not insert sentence- or clause-level newlines within a paragraph.
- Agent cleanup: After incorporating a final report, close/remove the one-off agent unless a concrete follow-up task is already assigned.
Phase 0: Repository Detection
Goal: Detect repo configuration and validate prerequisites.
Actions:
- Run
project-detect-repo-configand parse the output - Validate all required values are present:
INTEGRATION_BRANCH,REPO_ROOT,CURRENT_BRANCHmust be non-empty. If any are missing or ifERRORis set, report the error to the user and stop. - Validate gh is functional: If
HAS_GH=falseorGH_ERRORis set, tell the user what needs to be fixed and stop. - If
HAS_GH_SUBISSUE=false, install it:gh extension install agbiotech/gh-sub-issue - Store detected values:
INTEGRATION_BRANCH,REPO_ROOT,HAS_EPIC_STATE - Create initial todo list tracking all workflow phases
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.
- yesterday First seen · 238 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f558b41dbe7b
epic-dev is a command published in the GitHub repository neuromechanist/research-skills (43 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 2,554 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.
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design-review
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workflow-design-sprint
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update
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retro
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