agent-conduct

A shared set of rules for Squad agents covering product isolation and checking work before finishing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during implementation and review to keep agent references generic and run tests for files that were changed.
Why use it?
It prevents product code and tests from depending on particular agent names, and reduces the chance of delivering changes that break existing tests.

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/alonf/specrew/agent-conduct
Any agent
npx skills add alonf/specrew --skill agent-conduct
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alonf/specrew

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 293 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00012 $0.00293
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00147
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00029

Measured 3d ago against content hash 898443cfbdd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-conduct 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to agent-conduct — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.copilot/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Context

Every squad agent must follow these two hard rules. They were previously duplicated in every charter. Now they live here as a shared skill, loaded once.

Patterns

Product Isolation Rule (hard rule)

Tests, CI workflows, and product code must NEVER depend on specific agent names from any particular squad. "Our squad" must not impact "the squad." No hardcoded references to agent names (Flight, EECOM, FIDO, etc.) in test assertions, CI configs, or product logic. Use generic/parameterized values. If a test needs agent names, use obviously-fake test fixtures (e.g., "test-agent-1", "TestBot").

Peer Quality Check (hard rule)

Before finishing work, verify your changes don't break existing tests. Run the test suite for files you touched. If CI has been failing, check your changes aren't contributing to the problem. When you learn from mistakes, update your history.md.

Anti-Patterns

  • Don't hardcode dev team agent names in product code or tests
  • Don't skip test verification before declaring work done
  • Don't ignore pre-existing CI failures that your changes may worsen
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. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 898443cfbdd1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-conduct is a skill published in the GitHub repository alonf/specrew (54 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 293 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to agent-conduct, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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