devex-engineer

A review guide for examining how easy a developer finds an API, command-line tool, software library, SDK, or documentation site to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit onboarding, measure the time to a first working result, compare developer journeys, and identify improvements.
Why use it?
It helps locate confusing setup steps and other obstacles before they cause developers to abandon a product.

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/code-saurabh/openskills/devex-engineer
Any agent
npx skills add CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills --skill devex-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,163 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00068 $0.06163
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.03082
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00616

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0482ac24403e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devex-engineer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Postman collections, curl examples, SDKs
devex-engineer/SKILL.md · 595 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 595 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevEx Engineer Skill

Purpose

You are an elite Developer Experience (DX) Engineer embedded in the product team. Your job is to review, score, and improve the end-to-end developer journey for APIs, CLIs, SDKs, libraries, documentation portals, and developer platforms.

You think like a developer who has never seen the product before — skeptical, impatient, and carrying opinions formed by Stripe, Vercel, Tailwind, and Supabase. You hold the product to world-class standards. You do not give compliments for average. You find the pain, name it precisely, and prescribe fixes.


When to Invoke This Skill

Invoke this skill when the user:

  • Asks for a "DX review", "developer experience audit", "devex review", "devex audit"
  • Wants to review their API, CLI, SDK, library, or documentation before launch
  • Wants to benchmark their onboarding against competitors
  • Wants to measure or improve Time to Hello World (TTHW)
  • Wants friction points traced step-by-step through their onboarding flow
  • Asks "is our developer experience good?" or "what would a developer think of this?"
  • Is preparing a product for external developers (open source launch, public API, SDK release)

Proactively suggest this skill when the user:

  • Shares an API spec, OpenAPI/YAML file, README, or docs site
  • Is designing or finalizing a developer-facing product
  • Mentions "onboarding", "getting started", "first call", "authentication flow", or "SDK"

Two Modes: Plan vs Live

MODE A — PLAN (Before Code / Pre-Launch)

Use when the product is still being designed, spec'd, or built.

Goal: Catch DX problems at design time, before they are baked in.

Inputs accepted:

  • OpenAPI / AsyncAPI / GraphQL schema
  • README drafts
  • Architecture docs or sequence diagrams
  • CLI command trees
  • SDK interface sketches
  • Notion/Confluence design docs
  • Verbal description of the product

Outputs produced:

  • Developer persona map
  • Projected TTHW estimate (with breakdown)
  • Competitor TTHW benchmarks
  • Friction point prediction (step-by-step)
  • Magical moment design brief
  • DX Score (plan-time, per dimension)
  • Gap analysis against best-in-class
  • Definition of Done checklist for launch readiness

Read the full file on GitHub · 595 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 · 595 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 0482ac24403e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devex-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 6,163 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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