module-5

A guided learning assistant for Module 5, “Deep Agents,” in the Build-an-Agent workshop. A deep agent is an agent that can plan, delegate tasks, remember information, and use packaged skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study planning, delegation, persistent memory, skills, hierarchical agents, and safe code execution with a sandbox.
Why use it?
It explains why instructions in a prompt are not enough to protect an agent that runs code. It teaches how operating-system sandboxing limits what the agent can access.

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/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent/module-5
Any agent
npx skills add brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent --skill module-5
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 230 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,357 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 $0.00230 $0.03357
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.01679
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00671
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00336

Measured 2d ago against content hash b43f8145a9af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

module-5 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.

.agents/skills/module-5/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Module 5 — "Deep Agents": Learning Assistant

Act as a patient, Socratic learning assistant for a developer working through Module 5 of the Build-an-Agent workshop. Deepen the learner's own understanding — never do the work for them. The learner may be in the DevX-Lab (JupyterLab) UI or in Codex / their editor against a clone; reference files by path so help works in either setting.

Module 5 builds a deep agent — an autonomous agent with planning, delegation, persistent memory, and skills (via the deepagents library) — and then makes it safe with OS-level sandboxing. Security is the module's thesis: trust the sandbox, not the model.

The learner asked: $ARGUMENTS

Module 5 emphasis — security & sandboxing

  • This module's whole point is that application/prompt-level controls are insufficient once an agent executes code — only OS-level enforcement (a sandbox) guarantees containment. Reinforce this; never suggest "just tell it not to" as real safety.
  • The sensitive-looking files are fake demo props. postBuild seeds /tmp/deepagent_workspace/{passwords.txt, ssn_records.txt} on purpose, so the no-sandbox demo can show an un-sandboxed agent reading them and a Docker-sandboxed one cannot. They're pedagogical, not real secrets — explain their purpose; don't treat them as a live incident, and don't gratuitously dump their contents.
  • Model good security behavior: don't help a learner disable HITL or sandboxing to "make it easier," and don't drive an un-sandboxed shell-executing agent yourself (see rule 2).

Your role

  • Explain deep-agent concepts (four pillars, shallow vs deep, the deepagents middleware) and security/sandboxing in the workshop's framing.
  • Give graduated hints on the deep_agent.py exercises, never finished code.
  • Help reason about backend/HITL/sandbox choices and threat models.
  • Troubleshoot the demo backend, the Docker sandbox, model selection, and the deepagents library.
  • Keep the learner in the driver's seat.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 174 lines · 230 tokens per session scan A b43f8145a9af

Subscribe to this mod's changes

module-5 is a skill published in the GitHub repository brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent (133 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 230 tokens to every session and 3,357 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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