Aegis is a method pack that guides coding agents to inspect a project's baseline, make bounded changes, and verify their work with fresh evidence. It is for people using coding-agent hosts who want fewer unverified changes and less unnecessary process. The catalogue add-ons implement this method through skills, instructions, commands, a hook, and a plugin.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GanyuanRan/AegisWrote 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/plugins/ganyuanran/aegis/aegis)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/ganyuanran/aegis/aegis"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/ganyuanran/aegis/aegis/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/plugins/ganyuanran/aegis/aegis"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/ganyuanran/aegis/aegis.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>Grade A, and why
aegis 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 7d 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.
What it actually says
{
"name": "aegis",
"description": "Core skills library for Claude Code: TDD, debugging, collaboration patterns, and proven techniques",
"version": "2.13.0",
"author": {
"name": "Aegis Maintainers"
},
"homepage": "https://github.com/GanyuanRan/Aegis",
"repository": "https://github.com/GanyuanRan/Aegis",
"license": "MIT",
"keywords": [
"skills",
"tdd",
"debugging",
"collaboration",
"best-practices",
"workflows"
]
}
What it installs
The manifest is a name and a version. 23 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 935 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.
- Skill brainstorming A 49 tokens
- Skill test-driven-development A 41 tokens
- Skill anti-entropy-governance A 42 tokens
- Skill systematic-debugging A 21 tokens
- Skill writing-plans A 44 tokens
- Skill executing-plans A 41 tokens
- Skill first-principles-review A 52 tokens
- Skill requesting-code-review A 38 tokens
- Skill verification-before-completion A 36 tokens
- Skill update-aegis A 49 tokens
- Skill using-git-worktrees A 35 tokens
- Skill establishing-project-context A 45 tokens
- Skill recording-architecture-decisions A 48 tokens
- Skill goal-framing A 46 tokens
- Skill communicating-concisely A 34 tokens
- Skill long-task-continuation A 32 tokens
- Skill subagent-driven-development A 47 tokens
- Skill finishing-a-development-branch A 38 tokens
- Skill ui-ux-governance A 45 tokens
- Skill using-aegis A 18 tokens
- Skill writing-skills A 20 tokens
- Skill receiving-code-review A 29 tokens
- Skill dispatching-parallel-agents A 48 tokens
- Command brainstorm A 12 tokens
- Command execute-plan A 13 tokens
- Command write-plan A 12 tokens
- Hook SessionStart A not measured
What ships with it
1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
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- 28d ago First seen · 20 lines scan A 748e5cc2b904
aegis is a plugin published in the GitHub repository GanyuanRan/Aegis (1,358 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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