agent-sdk-builder

agent-sdk-builder is a skill for Claude Code from acaprino/daodan. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,155 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-development kit for running the full Claude Code agent loop inside your own program, with tools for files, commands, web searches, and subagents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building programmatic Claude agents in TypeScript or Python, running them as sidecars, and creating applications where agents inspect files, write code, execute commands, search the web, or delegate work.
Why use it?
It provides an agent that can take tool-using development actions, rather than only sending chat-completion requests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ai-tooling plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Building programmatic Claude agents in TypeScript or Python, running them as sidecars, and creating applications where agents inspect files, write code, execute commands, search the web, or delegate work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/acaprino/daodan/agent-sdk-builder
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.

Any agent
npx skills add acaprino/daodan --skill agent-sdk-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acaprino/daodan

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-tooling, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,155 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 5.1 $0.00099 $0.02155
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01077
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00215

Measured 8d ago against content hash 83add86c98d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-sdk-builder 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 8d 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.

exports/claude/plugins/ai-tooling/skills/agent-sdk-builder/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Agent SDK

Build applications that run the Claude Code agent loop programmatically: agents that read files, write code, run commands, search the web, and delegate to subagents from inside your own program.

Key distinction: the Agent SDK (claude-agent-sdk) runs the full agent loop with built-in tools. The Anthropic Client SDK (anthropic) makes raw API calls. Use the Agent SDK when you want an autonomous tool-using agent, not a chat completion.

TypeScript Python
Package @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk claude-agent-sdk
Install npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk pip install claude-agent-sdk
Auth ANTHROPIC_API_KEY env var ANTHROPIC_API_KEY env var
Entry point query() query()
Source anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-typescript anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python

The CLI package @anthropic-ai/claude-code ships inside the SDK. No separate install.


Source of truth

This SDK changes faster than any bundled document. Option shapes, tool names, defaults, and whole features move between releases: fork_session changed type, plugins changed from paths to config objects, and the TypeScript V2 preview was removed outright. Treat this skill's knowledge as orientation, never as the authority.

Three tiers. Stop at the first one that answers the question:

  1. The project's installed SDK. TypeScript: the type definitions under node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk/ and the version in its package.json. Python: the installed package under site-packages/claude_agent_sdk/, or inspect.signature() on the symbol. This tier wins over everything else, because it is what the user's code will run against.
  2. Current official documentation, https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/. Use it when nothing is installed yet, or when the question is about behavior rather than a signature.
  3. The references in this skill. Worked examples and orientation. Never the last word on a signature, an option shape, a default, or whether a feature still exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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.

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. 8d ago First seen · 153 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 83add86c98d9

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agent-sdk-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository acaprino/daodan (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,155 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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