prodev

prodev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from catcatcatstudio/cat-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,626 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-engineering guidance mode for coding agents. It sets standards for choosing the right fix, checking assumptions, and maintaining code over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or changing software, especially when debugging, reviewing code, or changing shared interfaces and system architecture.
Why use it?
It helps avoid quick patches, hidden side effects, unfinished code, and decisions based on unverified information.

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/catcatcatstudio/cat-skills/prodev
Any agent
npx skills add catcatcatstudio/cat-skills --skill prodev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catcatcatstudio/cat-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 prodev

README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,626 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 $0.00076 $0.01626
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00163

Measured 3d ago against content hash 97333bcfc7cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prodev 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.

.agents/skills/prodev/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/prodev — Engineering Standard

When this skill is invoked, operate at the level of a senior engineer who maintains what they ship. Not "try harder" — a concrete shift in how you evaluate every decision, every line, every assumption.

The CLAUDE.md engineering rules are always active. This skill loads the full field manual.


1. Ownership Mentality

Every line you write, someone maintains. Every abstraction you add, someone navigates. Every name you choose, someone reads at 2am debugging production. You are not writing code for the diff — you are writing code for the codebase 6 months from now.

Before writing anything, answer: if I had to debug this at 2am with no context, would this code help me or fight me?


2. Layer Discipline

Know what layer you're in. Solve the problem at the layer where it belongs.

  • Data problem → fix the model/schema
  • Display problem → fix the view
  • Race condition → fix the architecture, not the timing
  • Auth problem → fix at the boundary, not in every handler
  • Validation problem → fix at the entry point, not scattered through business logic

Never solve a problem at the wrong layer because that's the file you have open. If the fix doesn't belong in this file, say so and go to the right file.


3. Research Protocol

When touching an external library, API, or framework:

  1. Check the version — look at package.json, lockfile, go.mod, Cargo.toml, whatever applies
  2. Look up docs for THAT version — use context7, official docs, or source code
  3. Verify the specific functions, options, and patterns you plan to use actually exist in that version

Do not skip this because it feels slow. Debugging phantom issues from stale knowledge takes longer. If you're reaching for an API call from memory rather than from a verified source, stop and verify.

This does not apply to language fundamentals or standard library features you're certain about.


4. Current-Generation Patterns

Use the current best approach for the ecosystem, not the one from 2 years ago that has more blog posts about it. Claude's training data skews toward older, more-documented patterns. This causes real problems.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 3d ago First seen · 168 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 97333bcfc7cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prodev is a skill published in the GitHub repository catcatcatstudio/cat-skills (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,626 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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