deep-engineer

deep-engineer is a plugin for Claude Code from gowtham012/Claude-plugins. Its manifest loads nothing; the 2 skills it bundles cost 55 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding workflow that makes Claude move through five stages: generalizing the problem, testing scenarios, writing tests first (TDD), implementing, and verifying. TDD means test-driven development: writing tests before the code they check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for software tasks where you want a repeatable process from problem analysis through testing and final checks.
Why use it?
It helps avoid hardcoded fixes, overlooked edge cases, and implementation without verification.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it for software tasks where you want a repeatable process from problem analysis through testing and final checks.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add gowtham012/Claude-plugins
/plugin install deep-engineer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gowtham012/Claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 2 skills cost 55 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

deep-engineer 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 1mo 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.

deep-engineer/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 11 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "deep-engineer",
  "description": "Forces Claude through a disciplined engineering loop: generalize the problem, think through scenarios, TDD, implement, verify. Prevents hardcoded solutions and skipped edge cases.",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "author": { "name": "Gowtham" },
  "license": "MIT",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/gowtham012/Claude-plugins/tree/main/deep-engineer",
  "repository": "https://github.com/gowtham012/Claude-plugins",
  "keywords": ["tdd", "engineering", "testing", "autonomous", "loop", "discipline"]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 2 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 55 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Files

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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 11 lines scan A eab49ab2c126

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-engineer is a plugin published in the GitHub repository gowtham012/Claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), 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 2026-08-31.

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