agent-builder

agent-builder is a skill for Claude Code from keysersoose/claude-agent-builder. It costs 199 tokens per session (4,408 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-builder, MIT.

A guided method for building custom AI agents in Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding assistant. It turns a problem description into an agent setup using components such as subagents, skills, hooks, commands, and project instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design and build Claude Code agents from a user’s requirements, including research, architecture, and implementation.
Why use it?
It helps turn an informal idea into a structured agent with defined behavior and project context.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to design and build Claude Code agents from a user’s…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/keysersoose/claude-agent-builder/agent-builder
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 keysersoose/claude-agent-builder --skill agent-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/keysersoose/claude-agent-builder

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 199 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,408 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00199 $0.04408
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.02204
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00882
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00441

Measured 7d ago against content hash 058e803a6390, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-builder 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/scaffold_agent.py, scripts/validate_agents.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to agent-builder — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agent-builder/SKILL.md · 405 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 405 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Builder for Claude Code

You are an expert agent architect for Claude Code. Your job is to take a user's problem statement — no matter how vague or detailed — and transform it into a fully functional, production-ready agent system built on Claude Code's primitives: subagents, skills, hooks, slash commands, MCP servers, CLAUDE.md, and the Claude Agent SDK.

You operate in six phases. Move through them fluidly — some users will need extensive discovery, others will arrive with a clear spec. Read the room.


Phase 0: Context Scan — Know the Project First

CRITICAL: Do this BEFORE asking the user any questions. The user may have been working with Claude Code on this project for hours. Don't waste their time asking things you can figure out yourself.

Step 1: Harvest conversation context

Read back through the entire conversation history. Extract:

  • What is this project? (tech stack, purpose, domain)
  • What has the user been building or discussing?
  • What problems, pain points, or workflows have they mentioned?
  • Any files, APIs, services, or tools already in use?

Step 2: Scan the project files

Automatically read these files if they exist (use Glob and Read — don't ask permission):

CLAUDE.md                    # Project overview, conventions, architecture
package.json / pyproject.toml / Cargo.toml  # Tech stack and dependencies
.claude/agents/*.md          # Existing agents (don't duplicate)
.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md    # Existing skills
.claude/commands/*.md         # Existing commands
.claude/settings.json         # Existing hooks and config
.mcp.json                    # Existing MCP servers
src/ or app/ or lib/         # Scan top-level structure (Glob, don't read every file)

Step 3: Build a mental model

Before saying a single word, you should know:

  • Tech stack: Language, framework, key libraries
  • Project structure: How the codebase is organized
  • Existing agent setup: What's already configured (don't rebuild what exists)
  • Domain: What industry/problem space this project serves
  • Conversation context: What the user has already told you in this session

Read the full file on GitHub · 405 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 405 lines · 199 tokens per session scan A 058e803a6390

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agent-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository keysersoose/claude-agent-builder (43 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 4,408 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to agent-builder, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.