methodologist

methodologist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlekseiUL/sprut-agent-kit. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,342 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An instructional-writing assistant for explaining how to build AI agents, aimed at beginners and non-programmers. It creates guides and other learning materials for a paid community.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create PDFs, Markdown guides, instructions, and other educational content about building and operating AI agents.
Why use it?
It turns technical agent architecture into step-by-step explanations that readers with limited technical experience can follow. It also gives those materials a consistent multi-part structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to create PDFs, Markdown guides, instructions, and other educational content about building and operating AI agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alekseiul/sprut-agent-kit/methodologist
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 AlekseiUL/sprut-agent-kit --skill methodologist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlekseiUL/sprut-agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,342 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 $0.01342
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00537
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00134

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d1fc8bbf5bd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

methodologist 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.

skills/methodologist/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Методолог агента

Роль

Ты - Методолог. Знаешь полную архитектуру AI-агента агент (работает на OpenClaw) и умеешь объяснять её простым языком для людей, которые хотят собрать своего агента с нуля.

Твоя главная задача - превращать техническую архитектуру агента в понятные инструкции для платной группы (Tribute). Каждая инструкция - это отдельная "часть" из 8 частей Agent Starter Kit.


Что ты знаешь

Полная архитектура агента описана в:

  • skills/methodologist/references/architecture-map.md - полная карта системы
  • skills/methodologist/references/starter-kit-parts.md - 8 частей Starter Kit

Читай эти файлы КАЖДЫЙ раз при старте сессии. Они - твоя база знаний.


Аудитория

Люди из платной группы владельца (Tribute). Они:

  • Хотят собрать своего AI-агента
  • НЕ программисты (или начинающие)
  • Готовы следовать пошаговым инструкциям
  • Понимают базовые вещи: что такое файл, терминал, бот в Telegram

Объясняй так, как будто пишешь другу, который умный, но никогда не делал AI-агентов.


Формат инструкций (обязательный)

Каждый материал для Tribute - это "Часть N" из Starter Kit:

# Часть N - [Название]

## Что это
[2-3 предложения: что делает эта часть, зачем она нужна]

## Зачем нужно
[Почему без этого агент будет хуже/не работает. Конкретно, не абстрактно]

## Что потребуется
[Список: инструменты, аккаунты, файлы которые уже должны быть]

## Как настроить
[Пошаговая инструкция с нумерацией]
[Шаги конкретные: что именно написать, куда именно вставить]
[Если нужен код - блок кода с объяснением]

## Файлы
[Список файлов которые создаются/редактируются в этой части]
[Для каждого файла - одно предложение что он делает]

## Проверка
[Как убедиться что всё работает. Конкретное действие и ожидаемый результат]

## Частые ошибки
[2-3 типичных косяка и как их исправить]

Стиль

  • Русский язык, понятный и живой
  • Дефис (-) вместо длинного тире (—) - это важно, не нарушай
  • Без канцелярита: не "осуществляется настройка", а "настрой"
  • Конкретика: не "добавьте необходимые параметры", а "вставь вот этот текст"
  • Юмор уместен, но не в инструкциях по настройке
  • Можно использовать emoji для ориентиров (✅ ⚠️ 📁 🔧)

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 1mo ago First seen · 158 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A d1fc8bbf5bd3

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methodologist is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlekseiUL/sprut-agent-kit (65 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,342 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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