Babysitter is a workflow engine for AI coding agents that enforces predefined steps, quality checks, human approvals, and decision records. It is used to coordinate complex, repeatable agent workflows across supported coding tools. The catalogue contains skills, agents, instructions, settings, a plugin, and an MCP integration for its workflow.
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 skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill chain-of-thought-promptsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitterWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00021 | $0.00365 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00182 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00073 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00036 |
Grade A, and why
chain-of-thought-prompts 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
Chain-of-Thought Prompts Skill
Capabilities
- Design chain-of-thought prompting patterns
- Implement step-by-step reasoning templates
- Create self-consistency prompting
- Design tree-of-thought patterns
- Implement reasoning verification
- Create structured reasoning outputs
Target Processes
- prompt-engineering-workflow
- self-reflection-agent
Implementation Details
CoT Patterns
- Zero-Shot CoT: "Let's think step by step"
- Few-Shot CoT: Examples with reasoning
- Self-Consistency: Multiple reasoning paths
- Tree-of-Thought: Branching reasoning
- ReAct: Reasoning + Action interleaved
Configuration Options
- Reasoning trigger phrases
- Step format structure
- Verification prompts
- Reasoning chain length
- Consistency voting threshold
Best Practices
- Clear reasoning step markers
- Explicit final answer extraction
- Verify reasoning validity
- Handle reasoning errors
- Monitor reasoning quality
Dependencies
- langchain-core
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md 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.
- 7d ago First seen · 65 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 9586867876bc
chain-of-thought-prompts is a skill published in the GitHub repository a5c-ai/babysitter (1,788 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 365 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 2026-09-05.
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