agent-behavior-constraints

agent-behavior-constraints is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from josix/agent-flow. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for choosing agent models, granting tool access, applying safety limits, and selecting preferred tools for different tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting models, checking what an agent may access, spawning agents, or reviewing whether their behavior follows the rules.
Why use it?
It keeps agents within their intended permissions and assigns planning, coding, review, or verification work consistently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-flow plugin — 11 skills, 5 commands, 6 agents, 9 hooks, 2 MCP servers 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/josix/agent-flow/agent-behavior-constraints
Any agent
npx skills add josix/agent-flow --skill agent-behavior-constraints
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/josix/agent-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 5 commands, 6 agents, 9 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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-behavior-constraints

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/josix/agent-flow/agent-behavior-constraints"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/josix/agent-flow/agent-behavior-constraints.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,537 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 $0.00041 $0.01537
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00154

Measured 4d ago against content hash 383b35d8d19a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-behavior-constraints 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/agent-behavior-constraints/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Behavior Constraints

Define behavioral rules governing model selection, tool access, and operational guardrails.

Overview

This skill consolidates four core constraint domains:

  1. Model Routing - Which AI model powers each agent
  2. Tool Access - What tools each agent can use
  3. Behavioral Guardrails - Non-negotiable rules for all agents
  4. MCP Tool Preferences - Domain-specific tool selection

Apply these constraints when spawning agents, checking permissions, or reviewing behavior.


Model Routing

Agent Model Rationale
Senku (Planner) Opus Strategic planning needs deep reasoning
Riko (Explorer) Opus Complex exploration needs thorough analysis
Loid (Executor) Sonnet Balanced speed and capability for implementation
Lawliet (Reviewer) Sonnet Fast iteration for review feedback loops
Alphonse (Verifier) Sonnet Quick verification command execution
Speedwagon (Authoring) Sonnet Fast content authoring for explainer modules

Decision Rule:

  • Opus for strategic/planning tasks requiring deep reasoning
  • Sonnet for execution/verification tasks requiring speed

See Model Selection Guide for detailed criteria.


Tool Access Matrix

Riko (Explorer):       [Read] [Grep] [Glob] [Bash]* [WebSearch] [WebFetch]
Senku (Planner):       [Read] [Grep] [Glob] [TodoWrite]
Loid (Executor):       [Read] [Write] [Edit] [Bash] [Grep] [Glob]
Lawliet (Reviewer):    [Read] [Grep] [Glob] [Bash]
Alphonse (Verifier):   [Read] [Bash] [Grep]
Speedwagon (Authoring):[Read] [Grep] [Glob] [Write]† [Edit]† [Bash]‡

Key Restrictions:

  • Only Loid can modify files (Write, Edit) — except Speedwagon's scoped authoring exception
  • Only Riko can access web (WebSearch, WebFetch)
  • Only Senku can manage tasks (TodoWrite)

Footnotes:

    • Riko's Bash access is limited to AST analysis tools only (ast-grep, tree-sitter, language parsers)
  • † Speedwagon Write/Edit scoped to explain-out/ and .claude/explain-briefs/ only
  • ‡ Speedwagon Bash limited to bash scripts/compile-explain.sh only

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 160 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 383b35d8d19a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-behavior-constraints is a skill published in the GitHub repository josix/agent-flow (7 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,537 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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