devflow

A step-by-step development workflow for the Ambient Code Platform, covering work from a ticket through deployment checks. It also records fixes and useful shortcuts in its own instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with creating branches, updating specifications, writing code, committing changes, opening pull requests, handling reviews, deploying, and checking that deployments work.
Why use it?
It reduces missed steps when changing code and keeps the development process consistent. The recorded updates help future runs avoid previously discovered problems.

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/ambient-code/platform/devflow
Any agent
npx skills add ambient-code/platform --skill devflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ambient-code/platform

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,152 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 $0.00060 $0.03152
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01576
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00630
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00315

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0c2dd0c41fc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devflow 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/devflow/SKILL.md · 375 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 375 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devflow Skill

You are executing the Ambient Code Platform development workflow. This skill is the literal sequence of steps performed every time code is changed — from filing a ticket to verifying a deployment.

Self-improving skill. Whenever you discover something that doesn't work, or discover something that does, update this file immediately before moving on. The next invocation of this skill benefits from every correction. Examples of self-improvement triggers:

  • A build command fails and you find the right flags → add them here
  • A test requires an env var you didn't know about → add it here
  • A path you tried is a dead end → document the dead end and the correct path
  • A review comment reveals a missing step → add the step here

Turn Counter

Remind the human every 10 turns to re-read this skill. Context compaction can lose workflow state. At turns 10, 20, 30, etc., say:

"Reminder: we are on turn N. Re-reading skills/devflow/SKILL.md to refresh workflow state."

Then re-read this file before continuing.


Workflow Overview

1. Ticket (optional)
2. Branch (from ticket name if available)
3. Spec change (load + modify the component's .spec.md)
4. Commit spec → push → PR against `main`
5. Review (agentic: thorough PR review; human: desired but optional)
6. On spec acceptance → load the component's .guide.md (the implementation workflow)
7. Branch (from ticket name if available)
8. Commit order:
   a. Guide/skill/workflow self-improvement changes (1 commit)
   b. Code changes grouped by component
9. Push → PR against `main`
10. Review (human + bot comments; local review too)
11. On merge → await quay.io image
12. Update gitops repository with new image SHA (Skill TBD)
13. After deployment → run tests / e2e suite (TBD)

Phase 1: Ticket & Branch

1a. File a Ticket (optional)

If there is a Jira or GitHub issue, note the ticket ID. If not, proceed without one.

1b. Create a Branch

# With ticket
git checkout -b <ticket-id>/<short-description>

# Without ticket
git checkout -b <type>/<short-description>
# type: feat, fix, refactor, docs, chore

Read the full file on GitHub · 375 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 · 375 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 0c2dd0c41fc5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository ambient-code/platform (129 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 3,152 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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