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.
npx skills add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook --skill agents-sdkgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbookWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/agents-sdk)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/agents-sdk"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/agents-sdk.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00087 | $0.02931 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00044 | $0.01465 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00586 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00293 |
Grade A, and why
agents-sdk 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 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
Custom routing: use `getAgentByName(env.MyAgent, "instance-id")` then `agent.fetch(request)`. This is a copy
100% identical to agents-sdk — 86 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cloudflare Agents SDK
Your knowledge of the Agents SDK may be outdated. Prefer retrieval over pre-training for any Agents SDK task.
Retrieval Sources
Cloudflare docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/
| Topic | Docs URL | Use for |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Quick start | First agent, project setup |
| Adding to existing project | Add to existing project | Install into existing Workers app |
| Configuration | Configuration | wrangler.jsonc, bindings, assets, deployment |
| Agent class | Agents API | Agent lifecycle, patterns, pitfalls |
| State | Store and sync state | setState, validateStateChange, persistence |
| Routing | Routing | URL patterns, routeAgentRequest |
| Callable methods | Callable methods | @callable, RPC, streaming, timeouts |
| Scheduling | Schedule tasks | schedule(), scheduleEvery(), cron |
| Workflows | Run workflows | AgentWorkflow, durable multi-step tasks |
| HTTP/WebSockets | WebSockets | Lifecycle hooks, hibernation |
| Chat agents | Chat agents | AIChatAgent, streaming, tools, persistence |
| Client SDK | Client SDK | useAgent, useAgentChat, React hooks |
| Client tools | Client tools | Client-side tools, autoContinueAfterToolResult |
| Server-driven messages | Trigger patterns | saveMessages, waitUntilStable, server-initiated turns |
| Resumable streaming | Resumable streaming | Stream recovery on disconnect |
| Email routing, secure reply resolver | ||
| MCP client | MCP client | Connecting to MCP servers |
| MCP server | MCP server | Building MCP servers with McpAgent |
| MCP transports | MCP transports | Streamable HTTP, SSE, RPC transport options |
| Securing MCP servers | Securing MCP | OAuth, proxy MCP, hardening |
| Human-in-the-loop | Human-in-the-loop | Approval flows, needsApproval, workflows |
| Durable execution | Durable execution | runFiber(), stash(), surviving DO eviction |
| Queue | Queue | Built-in FIFO queue, queue() |
| Retries | Retries | this.retry(), backoff/jitter |
| Observability | Observability | Diagnostics-channel events |
| Push notifications | Push notifications | Web Push + VAPID from agents |
| Webhooks | Webhooks | Receiving external webhooks |
| Cross-domain auth | Cross-domain auth | WebSocket auth, tokens, CORS |
| Readonly connections | Readonly | shouldConnectionBeReadonly |
| Voice | Voice | Experimental STT/TTS, withVoice |
| Browse the web | Browser tools | Experimental CDP browser automation |
| Think | Think | Experimental higher-level chat agent class |
| Migrations | AI SDK v5, AI SDK v6 | Upgrading @cloudflare/ai-chat |
What ships with it
19 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.
- references/browse-the-web.md 1.6 KB
- references/callable.md 2.1 KB
- references/client-sdk.md 2.2 KB
- references/codemode.md 2.8 KB
- references/configuration.md 1.8 KB
- references/durable-execution.md 1.7 KB
- references/email.md 3.5 KB
- references/human-in-the-loop.md 1.8 KB
- references/mcp.md 4.6 KB
- references/observability.md 1.3 KB
- references/queue-retries.md 2.2 KB
- references/routing.md 1.8 KB
- references/server-driven-messages.md 1.6 KB
- references/state-scheduling.md 4.0 KB
- references/streaming-chat.md 4.9 KB
- references/think.md 2.9 KB
- references/voice.md 1.9 KB
- references/webhooks-push.md 2.4 KB
- references/workflows.md 3.8 KB
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 230 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 7d58c56b5ae9
agents-sdk is a skill published in the GitHub repository d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook (16 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,931 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to agents-sdk, differing in 86 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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