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.
npx skills add alinaqi/maggy --skill build-in-publicgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alinaqi/maggyWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alinaqi/maggy/build-in-public)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alinaqi/maggy/build-in-public"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alinaqi/maggy/build-in-public/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alinaqi/maggy/build-in-public"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alinaqi/maggy/build-in-public.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00025 | $0.01429 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00714 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00286 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00143 |
Grade A, and why
build-in-public 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Build in Public — Best Practices
Philosophy
Build in public isn't marketing. It's letting people watch you work. The best posts feel like you're narrating your thought process to a friend who's also a senior engineer. No hype sludge. No "I'm excited to announce." Just: here's what I built, here's why it matters, here's what I learned.
What to Share (and What Not To)
Share:
- Technical decisions and the reasoning behind them ("Chose SQLite over Postgres because...")
- Architecture insights ("Here's how the 9-tier routing pipeline works")
- Failures and what you learned ("Spent 3 hours debugging a race condition. Root cause: ...")
- Before/after metrics ("Compaction death spirals: 26 → 0 after Mnemos")
- Open source releases with context, not just links
- Counter-intuitive findings that surprised you
Never share:
- Revenue numbers, user counts, valuation
- Customer names or identifiable client details
- Internal URLs, API keys, credentials
- Anything covered by NDA
- Roadmap promises you might not keep
- "We're hiring" disguised as content
Channel-Specific Best Practices
Audience: Engineers, CTOs, founders who build. They scroll between meetings looking for something that makes them think.
Format:
- 1-3 paragraphs, 800-2000 characters sweet spot
- Lead with the insight, not the context
- Use line breaks generously — wall of text kills engagement
- One clear takeaway per post
- No external links in first paragraph (LinkedIn penalizes off-platform clicks)
Tone: Confident, teaches something. You're the senior engineer explaining your approach to a peer. No jargon without explanation. If you used a technique others might not know, explain it briefly.
When to post: Tuesday-Thursday, 8-10 AM in target timezone. Avoid weekends and Monday mornings (everyone's catching up).
What works:
- Technical deep dives with concrete code examples
- "How I built X" narratives with architecture diagrams
- Lessons learned from failures (these outperform success stories 3:1)
- Opinionated takes on industry trends (but only if you have data)
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.
- 4d ago Changed · +8 lines · +25 tokens per session bd463b6e7f3d
- 13d ago First seen · 138 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ccb84c1fdb16
build-in-public is a skill published in the GitHub repository alinaqi/maggy (707 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,429 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.
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