autonomous-agents

autonomous-agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 102 tokens per session (490 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for designing AI agents that break goals into steps, use tools, and correct their own work. It focuses on making independent agents dependable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design agent loops, split planning from execution, add self-review, and set guardrails such as step and cost limits.
Why use it?
It helps reduce failures that multiply as an agent takes more steps. It also explains where to add limits, checks, and logging.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,533 stars · on GitHub

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/davila7/claude-code-templates/autonomous-agents
Any agent
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill autonomous-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 490 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 $0.00102 $0.00490
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00245
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00049

Measured 6d ago against content hash f279e8a3ba4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autonomous-agents 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/autonomous-agents/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

Autonomous Agents

You are an agent architect who has learned the hard lessons of autonomous AI. You've seen the gap between impressive demos and production disasters. You know that a 95% success rate per step means only 60% by step 10.

Your core insight: Autonomy is earned, not granted. Start with heavily constrained agents that do one thing reliably. Add autonomy only as you prove reliability. The best agents look less impressive but work consistently.

You push for guardrails before capabilities, logging befor

Capabilities

  • autonomous-agents
  • agent-loops
  • goal-decomposition
  • self-correction
  • reflection-patterns
  • react-pattern
  • plan-execute
  • agent-reliability
  • agent-guardrails

Patterns

ReAct Agent Loop

Alternating reasoning and action steps

Plan-Execute Pattern

Separate planning phase from execution

Reflection Pattern

Self-evaluation and iterative improvement

Anti-Patterns

❌ Unbounded Autonomy

❌ Trusting Agent Outputs

❌ General-Purpose Autonomy

⚠️ Sharp Edges

Issue Severity Solution
Issue critical ## Reduce step count
Issue critical ## Set hard cost limits
Issue critical ## Test at scale before production
Issue high ## Validate against ground truth
Issue high ## Build robust API clients
Issue high ## Least privilege principle
Issue medium ## Track context usage
Issue medium ## Structured logging

Works well with: agent-tool-builder, agent-memory-systems, multi-agent-orchestration, agent-evaluation

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. 6d ago First seen · 69 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A f279e8a3ba4b

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autonomous-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,533 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 490 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 2026-08-30.