agent-fundamentals

agent-fundamentals is a skill for Claude Code from agent-blueprint/agent-blueprint-skills. It costs 136 tokens per session (3,436 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An introduction to agent-based artificial intelligence for enterprise teams. It explains what an agent is, how it differs from a workflow or chatbot, and how agents operate.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for learning agent fundamentals, comparing agents with workflows, choosing architecture patterns, and evaluating when agents should be used.
Why use it?
It helps people decide whether an agent fits a problem and recognize common design and implementation failures before building one.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-blueprint-skills plugin — 7 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit It is for learning agent fundamentals, comparing agents with workflows, choosing architecture patterns, and evaluating when agents should be used.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agent-blueprint/agent-blueprint-skills/agent-fundamentals
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 agent-blueprint/agent-blueprint-skills --skill agent-fundamentals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent-blueprint/agent-blueprint-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-blueprint-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 command.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,436 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 unknown 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 $0.00136 $0.03436
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01718
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00687
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00344

Measured 11d ago against content hash 18cdcc8b6c37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-fundamentals 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 11d 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.

plugins/agent-blueprint-skills/skills/agent-fundamentals/SKILL.md · 356 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 356 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 18cdcc8b6c37

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agent-fundamentals is a skill published in the GitHub repository agent-blueprint/agent-blueprint-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 3,436 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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