A procedure for checking that DeerFlow works end to end after an update. It covers installing or updating the code, starting the services locally or in Docker, and checking that they respond.

Use it to run a full smoke test, choose between local and Docker deployment, verify service availability, perform a health check, and record the result.

It reduces uncertainty about whether the application is deployed correctly and whether its services and health endpoint are available.

How bytedance/deer-flow configures Claude Code and Codex

About the project

DeerFlow is an open-source super-agent harness that coordinates sub-agents, memory, tools, sandboxes, and extensible skills to handle research, coding, and content-creation tasks that may run for minutes or hours. It is intended for long-running, multi-step work performed by AI agents. The catalogue entries are skills, agents, and instructions that support its workflows.

bytedance/deer-flow · 84,291 stars · on GitHub · deerflow.tech

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bytedance/deer-flow. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bytedance/deer-flow/main/.agent/skills/smoke-test/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/deer-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,239 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. Third-party audits

Snyk pass 6 Sept 2026
NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Privilege Escalation · line 75
Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.02239
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00896
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00448
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00224

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6872ae52ec3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smoke-test 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/check_docker.sh, scripts/check_local_env.sh, scripts/deploy_docker.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

smoke-test — 86% identical, 29 lines differ
smoke-test — 84% identical, 21 lines differ

.agent/skills/smoke-test/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DeerFlow Smoke Test Skill

This skill guides the Agent through DeerFlow's full end-to-end smoke test workflow, including code updates, deployment (supporting both Docker and local installation modes), service availability verification, and health checks.

Deployment Mode Selection

This skill supports two deployment modes:

Local installation mode (recommended, especially when network issues occur) - Run all services directly on the local machine
Docker mode - Run all services inside Docker containers

Selection strategy:

If the user explicitly asks for Docker mode, use Docker
If network issues occur (such as slow image pulls), automatically switch to local mode
Default to local mode whenever possible

Structure

smoke-test/
├── SKILL.md                          ← You are here - core workflow and logic
├── scripts/
│   ├── check_docker.sh               ← Check the Docker environment
│   ├── check_local_env.sh            ← Check local environment dependencies
│   ├── frontend_check.sh             ← Frontend page smoke check
│   ├── pull_code.sh                  ← Pull the latest code
│   ├── deploy_docker.sh              ← Docker deployment
│   ├── deploy_local.sh               ← Local deployment
│   └── health_check.sh               ← Service health check
├── references/
│   ├── SOP.md                        ← Standard operating procedure
│   └── troubleshooting.md            ← Troubleshooting guide
└── templates/
    ├── report.local.template.md      ← Local mode smoke test report template
    └── report.docker.template.md     ← Docker mode smoke test report template

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

Phase 1: Code Update Check

Confirm current directory - Verify that the current working directory is the DeerFlow project root
Check Git status - See whether there are uncommitted changes
Pull the latest code - Use git pull origin main to get the latest updates
Confirm code update - Verify that the latest code was pulled successfully

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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.

1mo ago First seen · 183 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6872ae52ec3f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smoke-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository bytedance/deer-flow (84,291 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,239 tokens. 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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