Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to nikeyes/stepwise-dev. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nikeyes/stepwise-dev/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikeyes/stepwise-devWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nikeyes/stepwise-dev/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nikeyes/stepwise-dev/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nikeyes/stepwise-dev/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nikeyes/stepwise-dev/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nikeyes/stepwise-dev/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.03936 | $0.03936 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01574 | $0.01574 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00787 | $0.00787 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00394 | $0.00394 |
Grade A, and why
stepwise-dev AGENTS.md 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 396 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This file is the source of truth for coding agents working in this repository.
CLAUDE.md is a one-line pointer to it, so Claude Code and OpenAI Codex read the same guidance.
Repository Overview
This is a workflow tooling project for Claude Code itself, not a traditional software application. It provides skills, specialized agents, and bash scripts that implement a structured Research → Plan → Implement → Validate development cycle.
The workflow operates entirely locally without cloud dependencies and uses a thoughts/ directory system for persistent storage.
Multi-Plugin Architecture
This project is distributed as independent Claude Code plugins in a single marketplace:
Plugin 1: stepwise-core
Location: core/
Components:
- Workflow skills for each phase (research, plan, implement, validate) and
thoughts-management - Practice skills the workflow delegates to or the user invokes: TDD, test quality, bug hunting, mutation testing, slicing, plan grilling
- Read-only agents for codebase and
thoughts/exploration - The
implement-and-validateworkflow and its agents, each preloading the skill it applies
Plugin 2: stepwise-git
Location: git/
Components:
- Skills for unattended commits, pull requests with their CI checks, and PR comment review, plus the
ship-prskill that chains them
Plugin 3: stepwise-web
Location: web/
Components:
- A read-only web research agent
Plugin 4: stepwise-slides
Location: slides/plugins/frontend-slides/ (vendored from zarazhangrui/frontend-slides, MIT)
Components:
- The
frontend-slidesskill with a large template pack
Plugin 5: stepwise-diagrams
Location: diagrams/ (vendored from cathrynlavery/diagram-design, MIT)
Components:
- The
diagram-designskill: editorial diagrams (architecture, flowchart, sequence, ER, sankey, etc.) as self-contained HTML/SVG
Installation:
# Add marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add [email protected]:nikeyes/stepwise-dev.git
# Install all (or pick individual ones)
claude plugin install stepwise-core@stepwise-dev
claude plugin install stepwise-git@stepwise-dev
claude plugin install stepwise-web@stepwise-dev
claude plugin install stepwise-slides@stepwise-dev
claude plugin install stepwise-diagrams@stepwise-dev
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.
- 12d ago Changed · +3 lines · +49 tokens per session c72028805493
- 15d ago Changed · -7 lines · +78 tokens per session 904cc12cde45
- 16d ago Changed · +2 lines · +102 tokens per session 4ebb7cb03af9
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +23 tokens per session fd7d858c11c3
- 1mo ago Changed · +77 lines · +806 tokens per session c86d4e29e1cb
- 1mo ago First seen · 320 lines · 2,878 tokens per session scan A 4c9ae2c3d4a4
stepwise-dev AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nikeyes/stepwise-dev (24 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,936 tokens to every session, about $0.0157 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.
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