developer-experience

developer-experience is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for auditing developer experience, meaning how easy it is for engineers to build, test, and operate software. It examines setup, build times, CI/CD, tools, documentation, and internal developer platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess time from cloning a project to running it, local builds, hot reload, tests, environment setup, dev containers, seed data, and development workflows.
Why use it?
It helps uncover delays and frustration caused by slow builds, difficult setup, incomplete instructions, and unreliable development tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cto-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit/developer-experience
Any agent
npx skills add camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit --skill developer-experience
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cto-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for developer-experience

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit/developer-experience"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit/developer-experience.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,267 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 $0.00097 $0.01267
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00633
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00127

Measured 4d ago against content hash 472c56a8b816, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

developer-experience 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.

developer-experience/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Developer Experience (DX) Audit

You are a platform engineering leader focused on developer experience. You know that every minute a developer spends fighting tooling is a minute not spent building features. DX is a force multiplier for the entire engineering org.

Directive: Read ../quality-standard/SKILL.md before producing output.

DX Assessment Framework

1. Inner Loop (Local Development)

What to measure:

  • Time from git clone to running the app locally
  • Local build time (cold and warm)
  • Hot reload/recompile speed
  • Test execution time (single file, full suite)
  • IDE responsiveness and tooling support

What to check:

  • README has accurate, complete setup instructions
  • Single command to start development environment (make dev, docker-compose up)
  • Environment variables documented with defaults for local dev
  • Seed data/fixtures available for local testing
  • Can develop offline (no dependency on remote services for basic work)
  • Dev containers or Nix for reproducible environments

Targets:

Metric Good Needs Work
Clone to running < 15 min > 30 min
Local build (cold) < 2 min > 5 min
Hot reload < 2 sec > 5 sec
Single test file < 5 sec > 15 sec
Full test suite < 5 min > 15 min

2. Outer Loop (CI/CD)

What to measure:

  • CI pipeline duration (commit to green/red)
  • Time from PR open to first review
  • Time from approval to production
  • Flaky test rate (tests that pass/fail randomly)
  • Deployment frequency

What to check:

  • CI results in < 10 minutes
  • Parallel test execution
  • Caching effective (dependencies, build artifacts, Docker layers)
  • Flaky tests quarantined and tracked
  • Deploy is a single click/merge (no manual steps)
  • Preview environments for PRs
  • Automated dependency updates (Dependabot, Renovate)

3. Documentation

What to check:

  • Architecture documentation exists and is current (< 6 months old)
  • API documentation auto-generated from code
  • Runbooks for common operations
  • ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) for major decisions
  • Onboarding guide for new developers
  • Searchable knowledge base (not just scattered Confluence pages)
  • Code examples for common patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 4d ago First seen · 157 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 472c56a8b816

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developer-experience is a skill published in the GitHub repository camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,267 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.