kandev-protocol

kandev-protocol is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kdlbs/kandev. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A startup and progress protocol for an Office agent, including how to read KANDEV context and track work status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent must follow KANDEV context, check blockers, comment on progress, update status, or operate the CLI.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent way to begin tasks, identify blockers, report progress, and use its command-line tools safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when an agent must follow KANDEV context, check blockers, comment on progress, update status, or operate the CLI.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kdlbs/kandev/kandev-protocol
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,077 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 235
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00039 $0.02077
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00831
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00208

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f63ea9d34355, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kandev-protocol 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 1mo 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.

apps/backend/internal/office/configloader/skills/kandev-protocol/SKILL.md · 251 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 251 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A f63ea9d34355

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kandev-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository kdlbs/kandev (981 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,077 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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