agent-development

agent-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from greedychipmunk/agent-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,694 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for designing and building AI agents with memory, tools, and multi-turn conversations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting, debugging, or improving agents, including choosing between single-agent, stateless, stateful, and multi-agent designs.
Why use it?
It helps choose an agent structure and plan how memory, models, tools, and multiple specialized agents should work together.

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/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/agent-development
Any agent
npx skills add greedychipmunk/agent-skills --skill agent-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/greedychipmunk/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for agent-development

README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,694 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01694
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00847
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00169

Measured 5d ago against content hash ab688b62f427, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-development 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.

agent-development/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Development

Design and build effective AI agents with appropriate architectures, memory configurations, model selection, and tool setups. Works across any agent framework or custom implementation.

When to Use

  • Starting a new agent project
  • Choosing between agent architectures (single-agent, multi-agent, stateless, stateful)
  • Designing memory structure and context management
  • Selecting appropriate models for your use case
  • Planning tool configurations
  • Optimizing memory management and performance
  • Implementing shared memory between agents
  • Debugging memory-related issues

Architecture Selection

Architecture When to use
Single agent, stateful Most common case. Agent maintains context across turns. Best for personal assistants, coding agents, support bots.
Single agent, stateless Simple request/response patterns. No conversation memory needed. Good for one-shot tools.
Multi-agent, shared memory Complex workflows where different agents specialize. Coordinate via shared memory blocks or message passing.
Multi-agent, orchestrated Pipeline or fan-out patterns. A router agent dispatches to specialist agents.

Read resources/architectures.md for detailed comparison and tradeoffs.

Memory Architecture

Three memory types cover most agent needs:

Core Memory (in-context):

  • Always accessible in the agent's context window
  • Use for: current state, active context, frequently referenced information
  • Limit: Keep total core memory under 80% of context window

Archival Memory (out-of-context):

  • Semantic search over vector database or document store
  • Use for: historical records, large knowledge bases, past interactions
  • Access: Agent must explicitly search — not automatically populated from context overflow

Conversation History:

  • Past messages from current conversation
  • Use for: referencing earlier discussion, tracking conversation flow
  • Older messages may be evicted; store durable facts in core/archival memory

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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.

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 · 206 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A ab688b62f427

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository greedychipmunk/agent-skills (17 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,694 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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