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.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.02878 | $0.02878 |
| Opus 5 | $0.01439 | $0.01439 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00576 | $0.00576 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00288 | $0.00288 |
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 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 — 320 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 4 independent Claude Code plugins in a single marketplace:
Plugin 1: stepwise-core
Location: core/
Components:
- 11 skills (research-codebase, create-plan, iterate-plan, implement-plan, validate-plan, thoughts-management, bugmagnet, grill-me, tdd, hamburger-method, small-safe-steps, story-splitting, test-desiderata)
- 5 specialized agents (codebase-locator, codebase-analyzer, codebase-pattern-finder, thoughts-locator, thoughts-analyzer)
Plugin 2: stepwise-git
Location: git/
Components:
- 2 skills (commit, review-pr-comments)
Plugin 3: stepwise-web
Location: web/
Components:
- 1 specialized agent (web-search-researcher)
Plugin 4: stepwise-research
Location: research/
Components:
- 1 skill (deep-research, includes generate-report script)
- 3 specialized agents (research-lead, research-worker, citation-analyst)
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-research@stepwise-dev
See README.md for detailed installation instructions.
Project Structure
.claude-plugin/ # Marketplace configuration
└── marketplace.json # Marketplace listing all 4 plugins
core/ # stepwise-core plugin
├── .claude-plugin/
│ └── plugin.json
├── agents/ # 5 specialized agents (markdown files)
│ ├── codebase-locator.md
│ ├── codebase-analyzer.md
│ ├── codebase-pattern-finder.md
│ ├── thoughts-locator.md
│ └── thoughts-analyzer.md
└── skills/ # 11 skills (SKILL.md directories)
├── create-plan/SKILL.md
├── iterate-plan/SKILL.md
├── implement-plan/SKILL.md
├── validate-plan/SKILL.md
├── research-codebase/SKILL.md
├── thoughts-management/
│ ├── SKILL.md
│ └── scripts/
│ ├── thoughts-init
│ └── thoughts-metadata
├── bugmagnet/SKILL.md
├── hamburger-method/SKILL.md
├── small-safe-steps/SKILL.md
├── story-splitting/SKILL.md
└── test-desiderata/SKILL.md
git/ # stepwise-git plugin
├── .claude-plugin/
│ └── plugin.json
└── skills/ # 2 skills
├── commit/SKILL.md
└── review-pr-comments/SKILL.md
web/ # stepwise-web plugin
├── .claude-plugin/
│ └── plugin.json
└── agents/ # 1 specialized agent
└── web-search-researcher.md
research/ # stepwise-research plugin
├── .claude-plugin/
│ └── plugin.json
├── agents/ # 3 specialized agents
│ ├── research-lead.md
│ ├── research-worker.md
│ └── citation-analyst.md
└── skills/ # 1 skill
└── deep-research/
├── SKILL.md
└── scripts/
└── generate-report
codex/ # OpenAI Codex compatibility layer
├── agents/*.toml # 9 generated agent definitions
├── transpile-agents.sh
├── install.sh
└── uninstall.sh
test/ # Automated bash tests (for development)
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 · 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 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,878 tokens to every session, about $0.0144 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 2026-09-05.
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