auto-dev

A structured workflow for building, changing, or fixing software through reusable phases and ordered sequences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new projects, enhancements, bug fixes, and additions when the requirements are clear.
Why use it?
It helps keep work focused by defining what success means, examining related code before editing, and limiting changes to what the task requires.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a7um/zero-review/auto-dev
Any agent
npx skills add A7um/zero-review --skill auto-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/A7um/zero-review

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,409 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00039 $0.02409
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01205
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00482
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00241

Measured 2d ago against content hash 91464a38db80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-dev 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/match-project.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/auto-dev/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auto-Dev Skill

WHEN TO USE: Task requires building, modifying, or fixing software, tools, or systems and requirements are clear (confidence: MEDIUM or HIGH).

Development Philosophy

Think like an engineer, not a code generator. Quality comes from understanding, not speed.

Define done — Before touching code, articulate what success looks like. What should work? What must not break? What is out of scope? This is your anchor for every decision that follows. Without it, scope drifts silently.

Understand before you change — Read the code you're about to modify. Read its callers, its callees, its tests. Map the blast radius. Your change quality is bounded by your understanding quality — when things go wrong, it's almost always because you understood too little, not because you coded too little.

Present, then act — After understanding, describe what you found and what you plan to do before doing it. The most productive sessions are those where design is discussed before code is written. The worst sessions are those where the agent reads files and immediately starts editing.

One correct change — Re-read the file before each edit. Make one comprehensive change, not ten incremental patches. If you find yourself editing the same file a third time, stop — you don't understand it well enough yet.

Every result is evidence — A test failure is not "retry with a tweak." Read the assertion. What does it actually say? A passing test suite is not "done" — does it exercise the behavior you changed? An error message is not "try something else" — what specifically went wrong?

Check against ①, stop — When the success criteria from ① are met, deliver. Don't improve what wasn't asked for. Don't refactor adjacent code. Don't absorb new scope mid-task. If a new request arrives, explicitly decide: defer, replace, or acknowledge the expansion.

Task Classification

Signal Paradigm
New project/system, no existing codebase dev/architecture-first
Defect, regression, incorrect behavior bugfix/hypothesis-driven
Single function/component, fits existing architecture unchanged addition/lightweight
Everything else (feature addition, behavior extension) enhancement/delta-design

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 170 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 91464a38db80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auto-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository A7um/zero-review (45 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,409 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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