x-devs

x-devs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jonathimer/devmarketing-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,723 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building a developer audience on Twitter/X, the social network where developers share technical work and discuss the industry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan technical threads, create code screenshots, understand developer audiences, and grow a developer-focused presence on X.
Why use it?
It explains how to make technical posts easier for developers to follow and engage with without losing authenticity.

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/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/x-devs
Any agent
npx skills add jonathimer/devmarketing-skills --skill x-devs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathimer/devmarketing-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 x-devs

README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,723 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 $0.00063 $0.02723
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01362
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00272

Measured 4d ago against content hash 27233547b5a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

x-devs 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 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.

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/x-devs/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

X/Twitter for Developers

Twitter/X remains the real-time pulse of the developer community. This skill covers thread structure, code screenshots, engagement tactics, and building an authentic developer following without being cringe.


Before You Start

  1. Read .agents/developer-audience-context.md if it exists
  2. Audit your current X presence (bio, pinned, recent posts)
  3. Understand: Developer Twitter rewards authenticity and technical depth

Understanding Dev Twitter

Who's on Dev Twitter

Segment What they share What they consume
Open source maintainers Project updates, war stories Industry news, peer projects
Tech leads Team learnings, hiring Architecture, management
Indie hackers Building in public, MRR Growth tactics, tools
DevRel Content, events, community Trends, developer sentiment
Framework authors Updates, opinions Feedback, community vibes
Learning devs Questions, progress Tutorials, inspiration

What Works on Dev Twitter

Content type Engagement level Notes
Technical threads High Deep dives get saved/shared
Code screenshots High Visual, scannable
Hot takes High (risky) Can backfire spectacularly
Building in public High Journey > destination
Memes Medium-high Know your audience
Announcements Medium Better with context
Tutorial links Medium Need compelling hook
Retweets with comment Low-medium Add real value
Plain links Low Algorithm deprioritizes

The Algorithm (As We Understand It)

Factor Impact
Replies in first hour High — signals engagement
Time spent on post High — threads > tweets
Profile visits from post High — interesting content
Bookmarks High — "save for later"
Retweets Medium — distribution
Likes Medium — engagement signal
Link clicks Low — X wants you on platform
External links Negative — deprioritized

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 407 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 27233547b5a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

x-devs is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathimer/devmarketing-skills (86 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,723 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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