manifest

manifest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Alexander-Tyagunov/magician. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,744 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided software-development process covering design, planning, coding, review, and release, with four points where a person must approve the next stage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to take a feature from an initial design through implementation, review, and shipping.
Why use it?
It gives large changes a defined path while keeping human control over external changes, commits, pull requests, merges, and deployment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the magician plugin — 25 skills, 7 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to take a feature from an initial design through implementation, review, and shipping.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/manifest
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 Alexander-Tyagunov/magician --skill manifest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alexander-Tyagunov/magician

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install magician, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 7 agents, 6 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for manifest

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/manifest/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/manifest)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/manifest"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/manifest/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for manifest

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/manifest"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alexander-tyagunov/magician/manifest.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,744 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 $0.00023 $0.01744
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00698
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00174

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ddcf0519bead, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manifest 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/manifest/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/manifest — Full Autonomous SDLC

The complete end-to-end development flow. Four human gates. Everything else runs autonomously.

Autonomy is the point: gather → plan → memorize → execute. The human approves the gates below, not each file read. Ground via kg (not broad grep), memorize the plan + requirements + kg pointers + standards to .workspace/, and execute the whole plan without stopping to ask about individual reads/searches — Claude Code's built-in read-only commands never prompt, and anything else prompts once unless the user runs in auto mode or approves it. The gates you stop on are writes/commit/push/PR/ticket/destructive ops. If you're bombarding the owner with "can I read this?" the run is broken. See lore/autonomy.md.

/manifest is the greenfield entry (build something new). For brownfield work — recreate an existing feature in another app, or change one in place (swap the vendor behind the scenes, redesign, add a capability) — use /transmute, which comprehends the existing feature first and then drives the same delivery spine (conjure → blueprint → weave → gateways → seal) behind a parity contract.

A full SDLC run is large — prefer the latest model and a high reasoning effort (/effort high; for big features, your model's deepest level — xhigh, or max on models that lack it). If the session is on an older model, suggest upgrading before starting. See lore/models.md.

Gates (Human Approval Required)

GATE 1: Scope approval
GATE 2: Spec approval (after /conjure)
GATE 3: Plan approval (after /blueprint)
GATE 4: PR title and final go-ahead (before /seal)

Process

Phase 0: Scope Triage [GATE 1]

  1. Ask: "What do you want to build?" (one sentence description). End your turn. Wait for their answer before assessing anything.
  2. Assess scope — is this one coherent feature or multiple independent subsystems?
  3. If too large: help decompose into sub-features, each with its own /manifest cycle
  4. Present scope to user, then gate with AskUserQuestion — options: Approve (proceed to Phase 1), Revise scope (adjust the boundaries first), Split into sub-features (too big — decompose into separate /manifest cycles). End your turn at the call; wait for the choice. Treat a free-form "yes / approved / looks good" as Approve; proceed to Phase 1 only on Approve.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

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. 1mo ago Changed · +76 lines ddcf0519bead
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 11 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 103e3b04b416

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manifest is a skill published in the GitHub repository Alexander-Tyagunov/magician (14 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,744 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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