talk-foxwell-reinvention-dev-team

talk-foxwell-reinvention-dev-team is a skill for Codex from jscraik/Agent-Skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,079 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide to Hannah Foxwell's talk about how AI-assisted software development may change engineering teams. It covers team structure, faster development, safety, product choices, and the importance of people.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when examining agent-assisted development, engineering team composition, developer-to-product-manager ratios, or experiments grouped as Keep, Trash, and Try.
Why use it?
It gives teams a source-grounded way to discuss changes brought by software agents without filling gaps with unsupported assumptions. It separates Foxwell's statements from surrounding context.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when examining agent-assisted development, engineering team composition, developer-to-product-manager ratios, or experiments grouped as Keep, Trash, and Try.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jscraik/agent-skills/talk-foxwell-reinvention-dev-team
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill talk-foxwell-reinvention-dev-team
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscraik/Agent-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,079 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00105 $0.01079
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00108

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8206a63df1f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talk-foxwell-reinvention-dev-team 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 12d 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.

Plugins/aidevcon/skills/talk-foxwell-reinvention-dev-team/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Reinvention of the Dev Team — Hannah Foxwell

A talk on how agentic software development is reshaping engineering team composition. Foxwell argues the traditional "balanced team" (1 PM, 1 designer, 1 EM, 4–8 devs) is breaking down under AI-driven velocity, and offers three anchors — build something worth building, speed requires safety, people matter — together with a "Keeping / Trashing / Trying" inventory of concrete team-design experiments.

Bundle note: This skill depends on two companion files — outline.md (section map and glossary) and transcript.md (full verbatim transcript). All lookup steps below assume these files are present and readable.

Grounding rules — MUST follow when answering

  1. Before answering any specific question, read outline.md to locate the relevant section, then read that section of transcript.md.
  2. When attributing words to Hannah Foxwell, quote short, non-sensitive excerpts from transcript.md. Never put quotation marks around paraphrased content.
  3. If a claim isn't in transcript.md, say so explicitly — do not speculate or fill gaps from general knowledge. Clearly distinguish between what Foxwell said and any contextual framing you provide.
  4. If a topic spans multiple sections of the transcript, read all relevant sections before answering, and note in your response which sections the information was drawn from.
  5. If the user asks about something not covered in the talk at all, state that plainly and offer to help with related topics that Foxwell does address. Do not extrapolate beyond the transcript.

Lookup workflow

For every user question, follow this sequence:

  1. Locate — Read outline.md to identify the section(s) most relevant to the question.
  2. Read — Read the identified section(s) in transcript.md for detailed context.
  3. Quote — Pull safe excerpts that directly support the answer. For short excerpts, you may reference quote.md if it contains relevant pre-extracted highlights. Paraphrase only for connecting tissue, and never wrap paraphrases in quotation marks.
  4. Cite — Reference the section name or timestamp (if available) so the user can verify.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 12d ago First seen · 71 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 8206a63df1f6

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talk-foxwell-reinvention-dev-team is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (8 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,079 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.