product-engineering

A playbook for improving a healthy software product, covering its roadmap, issues, tests, performance, code quality, documentation, and releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sort and break down issues, implement roadmap work, add tests, benchmark performance, refactor code, update documentation, and prepare reviewed pull requests.
Why use it?
It gives an engineering agent a repeatable way to choose useful work, validate changes, and move improvements safely toward release.

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/devantler-tech/agent-plugins/product-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add devantler-tech/agent-plugins --skill product-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devantler-tech/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,061 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 $0.00098 $0.03061
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01530
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00612
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00306

Measured yesterday against content hash 1bb3d30e4067, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-engineering 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/agentic-engineering/skills/product-engineering/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product engineering — moving products forward

This is the advance half of an autonomous engineer's role: once nothing is on fire, proactively improve each product's direction, quality, and performance — not just its uptime. Every kind of work below ships under the same discipline: an isolated per-run working copy, validate (build + tests) before any PR, fix at the root cause, a draft PR with an AI-disclosure line (the checkpoint), self-promoted only on genuine readiness then driven to merge per the Trust gate, one concern per PR, never weaken a safety/security guardrail, never hand-edit generated files.

Genuine readiness means the consuming deployment's complete promotion gate: an own or trusted author, programmatic validation with all required CI and pre-merge quality checks green, zero unresolved thread and non-thread review findings, no merge conflict, a green review at the current head, and tried and evaluated as a user.

Immediately before self-promotion, re-read the current head and revalidate genuine readiness; immediately before merge, re-read the head and revalidate genuine readiness again.

This skill is authored against the consumer contract sections defined by the consuming deployment's AGENTS.md (per the agentic-engineering plugin's parameterization contract): the Portfolio map (which products exist, plus each product's ## Maintenance card — validate commands, labels, protected/generated files, its feature-flag mechanism, and its roadmap home), the Trust gate (who may be driven to merge and the per-repo merge mechanics), the Cadence (rotation frequencies for strategy reviews and docs passes), Memory (where durable cross-run cursors live), and Maintainer channels (how a human decision is actively reached). Where this skill says "per the X section", the consuming repo supplies the concrete fact.

1. Strategy & roadmaps

The roadmap of record is the tracker's issues — never a version-controlled status file (it duplicates the tracker and goes stale). Epic/theme-level items carry a roadmap label (and optionally a milestone); their actionable children use the normal labels (enhancement, bug, performance, refactor, security, documentation).

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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. yesterday First seen · 183 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 1bb3d30e4067

Subscribe to this mod's changes

product-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository devantler-tech/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 3,061 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.

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