programmator-setup

A setup guide for installing and configuring Programmator, an orchestrator that coordinates autonomous coding agents. It explains the required Go installation, coding-agent executors, optional settings, and a first run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing Programmator, selecting an executor, creating project or global configuration, or starting a plan file.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty around installing the tool and connecting it to a coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or pi.

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/alexander-akhmetov/programmator/programmator-setup
Any agent
npx skills add alexander-akhmetov/programmator --skill programmator-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/programmator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,754 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 $0.00035 $0.01754
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00877
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00175

Measured 2d ago against content hash 15d2fd12f662, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

programmator-setup 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.

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/programmator-setup/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Programmator Setup

Help the user install and configure programmator.

Installation

Requires Go 1.26+.

go install github.com/alexander-akhmetov/programmator/cmd/programmator@latest

Or download a binary from GitHub Releases for linux/darwin (amd64/arm64).

Setup steps

  1. Install the binary (see above). Verify: programmator --help
  2. Check that an executor is available — programmator needs a coding agent to do the work:
    • Claude Code (default): claude --version
    • pi coding agent: pi-coding-agent --version
    • OpenCode: opencode --version
    • Codex: codex --version If none are installed, tell the user they need at least one.
  3. Optionally create a config — programmator works with zero config (defaults to Claude Code as executor). Only needed if the user wants to use a different executor, customize review agents, or enable auto-commit. Config goes in ~/.config/programmator/config.yaml (global) or .programmator/config.yaml (per-project override).
  4. Try it out — create a simple plan file and run it:
programmator start ./plan.md

Configuration

Programmator works with zero config. It defaults to Claude Code as executor with 9 parallel review agents. Only create a config if you need to customize something.

Config file locations (highest priority last):

  1. Embedded defaults (built into binary)
  2. ~/.config/programmator/config.yaml (global)
  3. .programmator/config.yaml (per-project)
  4. CLI flags

Run programmator config show to see all resolved values and their sources.

Use pi coding agent instead of Claude Code

executor: pi
pi:
  provider: anthropic   # or "openai"
  model: sonnet          # or "gpt-4o"

Custom review agents

Default: 9 agents run in parallel (bug-shallow, bug-deep, architect, simplification, silent-failures, claudemd, type-design, comments, tests-and-linters). You can replace them:

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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 · 206 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 15d2fd12f662

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programmator-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexander-akhmetov/programmator (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,754 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 2026-08-31.