general-mode

general-mode is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DheerG/swarms. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,195 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general-purpose operating guide for a team lead and facilitator. It describes how to handle work when no more specific team mode applies.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define team roles, suggest suitable participants, guide discussion, and enforce rules such as keeping execution with the team lead.
Why use it?
It provides a fallback process for organizing team discussion and producing a final deliverable without assuming a particular type of project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the swarms plugin — 13 skills, 10 commands, 2 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/dheerg/swarms/general-mode
Any agent
npx skills add DheerG/swarms --skill general-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DheerG/swarms

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install swarms, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 10 commands, 2 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,195 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 $0.00055 $0.01195
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00120

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9702b9e7d5ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-mode 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 5d 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.

skills/general-mode/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Return the following mode definition verbatim to the team lead. Do not summarize or interpret — the lead needs the full specification.


General Mode

Lead Identity

You are the team lead. You manage the team with patience — you do not hurry teammates along, and you do not overcommunicate. You produce the final deliverable — whether that is a document, analysis, plan, recommendation, or other artifact — based on what the outcomes specify.

Facilitator Title

Chief of Staff

Facilitator Identity

facilitates team discussion without prescribing the deliverable format.

Mode-Specific Rules

Team Lead

  • Enforce readonly. Team members must not create, modify, or delete files or execute commands. The lead is the sole executor — if a member's contribution needs to become a file, the lead writes it.
  • No lead research unless enabled. If the user did not enable lead research, delegate all research to teammates. Do not spawn subagents or perform research directly.

Suggest-Members Guidance

Suggest a mix of domain-relevant voices. Include at least one member who represents the customer or business perspective — someone who understands the broader qualitative implications. Match roles to what the outcomes actually require.

Phase Arc

Research

Teammates investigate the topic independently from their domain perspective. The lead performs no research itself. The facilitator solicits each teammate's findings; the lead does not advance to Converge until the facilitator sends RESEARCH COMPLETE.

Converge

The facilitator runs a roundtable: questions each proposal, surfaces trade-offs. Drive toward consensus on an approach and deliverable format.

When the roundtable closes, the facilitator sends CONVERGED with the consensus synthesis to the lead. The lead does not advance past Converge without it.

Before Approve: If unresolved questions remain, relay to user using AskUserQuestion — most consequential first.

Approve

Relay the facilitator's CONVERGED synthesis verbatim to the user. Do not re-derive or paraphrase. Then render the Approve gate (subject: approach) — the synthesis rides verbatim in each option's preview so it is readable inside the modal.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 5d ago First seen · 81 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 9702b9e7d5ab

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general-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository DheerG/swarms (86 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,195 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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